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"Where in the world is there a political party that has been militarized?"

None were voted in, and the group began to militarize.

It seemed as though they were determined to militarize this meeting.

The city was militarized and divided into three operational areas.

The life of a company man was almost militarized.

The question is how far we choose to militarize ourselves at home in response to terrorism.

The region has since been heavily militarized, increasing its relevance.

Second, we must not militarize the high-technology industrial and research base.

Then she remembered that he was now "militarized" and under arms, which changed things considerably.

The United States is not going to militarize the southern border.

"They are already highly militarized, as a way of keeping down their subject species.

The Colombian government has militarized the area in response.

Air Force officials said yesterday that the directive, which is still in draft form, did not call for militarizing space.

Some question whether it is necessary to "militarize" a border shared with a friendly nation.

He studied under a tense atmosphere, because the school was militarized by a colonial order.

Gangs are a huge problem, but Washington should resist militarizing campaigns against crime.

"We're going to militarize what freighters we can, by some pretty strong financial coercion."

These crosses were militarized and looked similar to war medals soldiers would be decorated with.

This project was never realized, however, because the Contras had militarized much of the wilderness.

"You are militarizing heavily," Pilar said and laughed at him.

It is a 24-bit parallel militarized computer with fixed and floating point capability.

Production and defense became primary national priorities and the population was militarized.

Not only East and West but much of the world militarized to absurd heights during the cold war.

"Their solution will be to go back to a centralized, militarized, totalitarian system.

"Shortly after that, I decided to do an opera about the movement to militarize space exploration.

As a result of this, attempts to militarise the group were largely a failure, although the movement continued to organise demonstrations against immigrants.

A missile shield will militarise space, since antiballistic missiles operate in space.

The sixth Guru, Hargobind, started to militarise the community so that they would be able to resist any oppression.

Our group, however, does not feel any need to militarise the EU's Foreign and Security Policy.

It declared the United States to be the Administering Authority and gave it permission to militarise the territory.

The committee predicted that the Syrian ambassador's expulsion would militarise the conflict, mobilising Arab opinion against the regime and leading to military intervention.

Russia agreed not to militarise the Åland Islands, which was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris (1856).

Instead, it wants to militarise the EU and is proposing more expenditure for the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

After instilling these changes, Laurier believed he'd get the unanimous support of parliament for his plans to militarise the Fisheries Protection Service into a navy proper.

Despite Chichester's attempts to fully militarise the group the British government refused to offer financial assistance to the YCV, in return for placing themselves at the government's disposal.

His paranoia that his riches will be stolen has led him to heavily militarise the entire dwarven empire - he himself rides a war-like steam roller named "Rollie".

One of the earliest initiative taken by General Zia in 1977, was to militarise the integrated atomic energy programme which was founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1972.

We have listened to all the naysayers, the people who tell us that Lisbon will further militarise the Union, that it will lead to social dumping, that it will lead us all in the wrong direction.

They accuse Washington of exploiting regional trends among Third World states, of attempting 'to emasculate the positive basis of such processes, to militarise the activity of regional organisations created by the developing countries, transforming them ultimately into pro-Western military blocs'.

We have therefore always denounced and criticised the United States for proposing to set up a National Missile Defence system (NMD), which will militarise the use of space and set off an arms race, with dire consequences for the future of all humankind.