Sentence examples for breakaway movement from inspiring English sources

As a rule, the majority group violently opposes the breakaway movement.

Once, that might have been enough, but the existence of a breakaway movement changes everything.

He cited the alienation of Republican-leaning counties like those in the far north, where the breakaway movement State of Jefferson has wide allegiance.

Shia leaders in southern Iraq yesterday called for a breakaway movement from the central government in Baghdad to protest against the heavy-handed approach to the insurgency.

When he was world champion, Kasparov led a breakaway movement from Fide, and it is possible he may do so again.

A key figure in the Basque breakaway movement, Otegi, 57, has spent a total of 15 years in prison for separatist acts.

Secession opponents fear approval of the Carson referendum would encourage other breakaway movements.

The Clinton Administration and European governments, fearful of the precedent that an independent Kosovo would set for other breakaway movements in the world, have said they do not support the aims of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which was fairly well-routed by Mr. Milosevic by mid-August.

Put this another way: Russia's efforts to weaken its neighbours and incrementally recover the empire lost upon the demise of the Soviet Union is proving to be its own undoing, because the more it nibbles at those neighbours by such means as it has used over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the more it will encourage just such breakaway movements from within and around itself.

Moreover, they expressed a strong pro-Greek feeling, and were the first to support the following breakaway autonomist movement.

Currently, three of the main Islamist groups active in Mali include the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the al-Qaeda breakaway group Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), and Ansar Dine, which aims to see Mali ruled under Islamic Law.