Student demonstrators in some countries are quite militant, and often throw fire bombs, rocks and bottles during clashes with police.
Militant bus drivers have staged an illegal strike to protest against the firing of one of their co-workers.
What the government likes to call
militant environmentalists are often just average citizens who are protesting against poor government policy.
Ralph Nader has been an important and influential militant in the fight for consumer protection in the U.S. for many years.
The government is somewhat nervous at the growing
militancy of the unemployed in this country.
Before becoming President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was a well-known militant in the struggle for racial equality and human rights in his country.
The militant wing of the IRA has rejected calls for a ceasefire during peace talks
with the British government.
Nietzsche once said that under peaceful conditions, the militant man attacks himself.
Some of the more militant members of the union are calling for an immediate strike.
The militants within the party are calling for the leader's resignation, saying that he has betrayed the party's principles.
Tamil militants in Sri Lanka have long sought to establish a separate Tamil state in the country's northern and eastern provinces.
In 1987, militant Palestinians launched a campaign of strikes and demonstrations known as the Intifada.
Militant animal rights activists attacked the research facility and liberated all the animals used in experiments.
Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinian men, one of them a wanted militant, during a hunt for suspected terrorists in a West Bank village.
On November 4, 1979, militant Iranian students seized the American Embassy in Tehran, and held it until 20 January 1981.