How to Use nonmilitary in a Sentence

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• The Houthis have also helped Iran with its nonmilitary needs.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
• The goal would be to provide food, medicine and other nonmilitary supplies for days, weeks and maybe longer.
  — Douglas J. Feith and John Hannah, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
• Hamas had earlier asked for a five-day pause to release nonmilitary hostages.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• What the recent numbers also show is that the effort slowed in recent days, with nonmilitary flights making up a large percentage of the total.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• How about the nonmilitary promotion of democracy by the United States?
  — Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
• Yet today, the most urgent threats to the U.S. are increasingly nonmilitary in nature, experts say.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2021
• With nonmilitary flights over Ukraine all but impossible, Kamyshin and his colleagues have had to manage the flow of foreign leaders and diplomats heading to Kyiv to meet with the government.
  — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• The escalated rhetoric and apparent resolve to use force could raise the stakes of nonmilitary efforts to restore democracy in the wake last month’s military coup in Niger.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Russian forces have shelled nonmilitary areas from long distances in an attempt to demoralize Ukraine and drive civilians out of cities.
  — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2022
• In the first phase, both sides would pause fighting, and Hamas and other Gaza militant groups would free Israeli nonmilitary hostages, including women, children, and the elderly and sick.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• That raised questions about why Moscow would squander its dwindling weaponry on nonmilitary sites.
  — Steven Erlanger, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
• In his tenure as prime minister, Slovakia became the first country to stop sending weapons to Ukraine, though nonmilitary aid continued.
  — Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• But the most glaring shortfalls appeared in diplomacy and in nonmilitary planning.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• There have been multiple protests outside the de facto Russian embassy in Taipei, a solidarity march through the center of the capital, and a rush to send money and nonmilitary aid to Ukraine.
  — Chris Horton, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022
• With nonmilitary flights grounded in Ukraine, the commission said the new supply routes should be organized mainly via land and river transport, using for instance Ukraine's ports on the Danube River.
  — Samuel Petrequin, ajc, 12 May 2022
• Russia has responded with its biggest flurry of missile strikes in months against civilians and other nonmilitary targets in cities across Ukraine.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 12 Oct. 2022
• The census is the largest nonmilitary mobilization in the U.S. Data gathered during the census determines how many congressional seats each state gets.
  — Mike Schneider, ajc, 18 Sep. 2022
• In addition, nonmilitary customers on Nov. 11 can receive a card and pass it on to an active-duty military member or veteran.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022
• Yet Black people from military families were no less supportive of the war than Black people from nonmilitary families.
  — Naima Green-Riley, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2024
• With the law’s expiration, the two parties have less incentive to abide by the principle of parity in military and nonmilitary spending increases.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
• Applicants have to submit past transcripts, but any grade point average above 0.5 — equivalent to a D-minus — would suffice, said the former employee in the nonmilitary division.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
• This insurance provider has the best insurance rates overall for nonmilitary citizens.
  — Steven Glass, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
• Democrats say that the caps sought by Republicans on nonmilitary spending will put at risk veterans’ healthcare, which is typically covered under the caps on nondefense spending.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• Its chief nonmilitary business is Gulfstream Aerospace, producer of business jets.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
• According to Ukraine’s ministry of defense, 70 percent of Russian missiles hit nonmilitary targets.
  — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
• President Trump’s team has reserved high-profile trips for nonmilitary officials, such as diplomats or public health officials.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 23 Nov. 2020
• If the region’s democracies are to survive the illiberal pressures of punitive populism, governments must prove that nonmilitary measures can be effective.
  — Gustavo Flores-Macías, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2024
• These countries transfer weapons and ammunition directly to the Ukrainian army, while financial aid is directed to nonmilitary spending.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• Moreover, it is estimated about 6,000 active military personnel were given jobs in nonmilitary positions in government in the last eight years.
  — Rafael R. Ioris, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2023
• Foreign aid is also directed at nonmilitary outlays, such as education and health care, but a reduction in these funds would require Ukraine to cut its own military expenditures to cover civilian needs.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024