militant

Converse of subject

• kill: He was the third westerner to be killed by suspected Islamic militants in Saudi Arabia in a week.

Converse of object

• arrest: Police said that they had already arrested 13 militants they said had been preparing to provoke Mayday violence.
• recruit: Dissent mounted in the Congress Socialists ' ranks, especially among militants recruited during the August Struggle.

Adjective modifier

• Islamic: The attacks have generally been blamed on Islamic militants.
• suspected: Hundreds of suspected militants have been arrested in the campaign.
• Trotskyist: The Young Socialists of the Seine, who were led by Trotskyist militants, brought their support to the strike.
• revolutionary: The few revolutionary militants who were leading the strike were doubtless a pole of regroupment for some of them.

Modifies a noun

• republicanism: There is no need for working class leadership or militant republicanism.
• Islamist: Militant Islamists active in the Iraq crisis will also be affected whatever the outcome is.
• suffragette: Around 1908 a branch of the militant suffragettes, the WSPU, was established.
• secularism: In contemporary Europe, for instance, the anthropocentric vision takes the form of militant secularism, which actively opposes any manifestations of religiosity.
• atheism: Indeed, it seems like the supreme irony that militant atheism has managed to acquire the mentality of a religion.

Noun used with modifier

• islamist: I can give you a direct assurance that they are - or in many cases were - in no sense Islamist militants.
• union: Trade union militants were hit hardest by the defeats of the Thatcher years.
• wing: And there is still a large number of left wing militants around the country, and people with left wing ideals.