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1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 155 Because we were militarily affected.

1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises I. 430 There is no disgrace in being militarily conquered after resisting to the last.

1870 W. R. Greg Polit. Probl. 38 We could not interfere militarily without the assistance of a Continental Power.

1927 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 21 399 The Allies, by occupying militarily and exploiting commercially the German mining basin, had only availed themselves of the means sanctioned by international law and the treaty to coerce Germany to abide by her obligation.

1991 Times 5 Aug. 9/2 Privately, it is acknowledged that the Tigers can never be beaten militarily.

1793 Sir M. Eden in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 207 The Emperor's journey, civilly and militarily, has had an excellent effect.

1839 T. Hook in New Monthly Mag. 56 2 This, militarily speaking, ‘signifieth nothing’.

1898 G. W. Steevens Egypt xiv. 163 Egypt was left militarily in the most exposed situation imaginable.

1938 Tablet 1 Jan. 3/1 It has been for some time the aim of King Carol and his military advisers,..militarily to make Roumania too formidable to be partitioned.

1968 Guardian 4 Dec. 4/6 The most profound challenge to American policy will be..to develop some concept of order in a world which is bipolar militarily but multipolar politically.

1991 Washington Post 20 Jan. a27/2 The allies believe that time is on their side militarily.

1904 J. Conrad Nostromo ii. v. 156 All the wooden saints stood militarily in a row at the top of the great flight of stairs.

1988 A. Tyler Breathing Lessons iii. i. 185 She was standing very straight, militarily straight.

1996 D. F. Wallace Infinite Jest 59 Brookline's Finest were finally summoned and got him unbound from the coldly lit chair, they had to carry him out as if he were still seated, so militarily comme-il-faut had his limbs and spine hardened.