Sentences with phrase «militate against the husbands»

For many wives, factors which militate against the husbands» sobriety are either practically nonexistent, or they are offset by other needs for strength in their husbands.

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What we come away with, then, is a clunky narrative and generic wife - husband sentimentality, both of which militate against the movie's shaking us up emotionally.

It is precisely the insistence upon a modest, proficient, self - demeaning level of amateurism as a «suitable accomplishment» for the well - brought up young woman, who naturally would want to direct her major attention to the welfare of others — family and husband — that militated, and still militates, against any real accomplishment on the part of women.