The holidays, and relatively sunny weather, have brought an increasingly militant element to the gates of the residence.

But militant elements in Iran are beginning to use the events in the Soviet Union as fuel in domestic infighting.

Armed militias known as the fedayeen grew from militant elements within the Arab Palestinians.

An intelligence official said Colonel Qaddafi was also concerned about the threat to his government from militant elements in the country.

Mrs. Mandela is identified with the more militant elements in the A.N.C.

At first, the protesters tried to police themselves - something they said they were incapable of doing once the more militant elements took hold.

But no one seemed to believe that he could control the militant elements of his own coalition.

Even during the Million March in 2011 militant elements were suspected to be behind the destruction of statues on Tank Bund.

The band changed its image a bit and used more militant elements such as gas masks as part of its live shows.

However, since the latter part of the 1990s, radical and militant elements said to be linked with Wahhabism are said to have been acquiring influence.