Sentence examples for bloody separation from inspiring English sources

[My country], Pakistan, was conceived out of a struggle for independence against the British followed by a bloody separation from India.

But reconstruction consists of far more than rebuilding property, particularly in a country of smokestack industries and Communist central planning before its bloody separation from Yugoslavia ruined both of these mainstays of the economy.

Which, given the strains of that family – Richard and Linda went through a bloody separation as their marriage collapsed during a US tour, when Teddy was just a small child – was not the easiest project to pull together.

So far, it is failing.The bloody separation of East Timor from Indonesia in 1999 stoked fears that the country might gradually disintegrate, as one wayward region after another broke away, starting with Aceh and Papua.

And of course Indonesia's transition to democracy was traumatic: the country's very existence as a unified nation-state was called into question by the bloody separation of East Timor and by waves of ethnic, religious and separatist killings that swept across Aceh, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Maluku.

Five years after the former East Timor won its independence, following a bloody separation from Indonesia and a period under the United Nations' control, things still look gloomy.Since last May, when the country's security forces collapsed, a contingent of foreign police and soldiers, led by Australia, has barely kept the peace between rival political factions and street gangs.

In a sense it was, but the later steps would include a bloody, bitter war of separation from France itself.

Jakarta tore up its defense treaty with Canberra in 1999 when Australia led an international peacekeeping force into East Timor during the bloody aftermath of its separation from Indonesia following a 24-year occupation.