The fact that the public was not sufficiently educated to make the scheme work militated against the success of this administrative venture.
en.wikipedia.org Only, the high-cost structure of the labor market, high taxes, structural overvaluation of the guilder, all militated against most forms of industrial production, let alone export industries.
en.wikipedia.org It also militates against the democratic doctrine of popular sovereignty, since an elected government is suspended.
en.wikipedia.org Any attempt to correct or alter the subjects' behaviour, or to force them to do things they are not interested in, militates against trance induction and certainly deep trance experience.
en.wikipedia.org The condition of the ground, however, militated against a really scientific exhibition, suggesting that at other times their play was even more scientific.
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