militarizev.

1856 X. D. MacLeod Biogr. Hon. Fernando Wood xiii. 206 The Mayor then..seeing that the best city governments were out of this country and carried on by a military police, resolved to militarize the police of New-York.

1871 Galaxy Mag. Oct. 486 When the circumstances of a country..enable it to dispense both with the old European system of a large standing army and the new European system of militarizing the whole nation, that country has a great advantage.

1880 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 293 A war by which a military dominion is yet further militarised.

1888 Lancs. Evening Post 3 Feb. 2/4 Sir Charles Warren..had done his best to militarise Scotland Yard.

1922 P. N. Miliukov Russia 205 The climax was reached when the Bolsheviks decided to militarize labor.

1972 Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 9/8 Will the generals militarise the Government?

1973 Listener 14 June 796/3 During the Cultural Revolution..Chinese politics were again militarised.

1987 tr. M. Gorbachev Perestroika ii. iii. 153 We had a very serious discussion about the possible consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, the importance of banning nuclear tests and the danger of militarizing space.

1919 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 25 82 A vigorous, militarized nationalism is upheld with some cogency and much speciousness of reasoning.

1922 Edinb. Rev. July 28 Appalling slaughter and suffering, patiently endured by a militarized people.., has disillusioned the Germans.

1982 Peace News 6 Aug. 11/3 What matters is that it should be a political success—revealing the State in all its militarised ugliness.

1889 Times 21 Oct. 5/4 The militarizing of the Civil Service.

1917 Econ. Jrnl. 27 285 The ‘militarising’ of our economic life.

1953 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 67 448 Japan's imports of machinery and chemicals were either of a highly specialized character, or were to meet the artificially expanded demand of a militarizing economy.

1990 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 49 499 The Company now began to push through at the imperial level the centralizing, bureaucratizing and militarizing tendencies which the eighteenth century had developed only at the regional level.