Sentence examples for demand for statehood from inspiring English sources

I found out through my sources in Kokrajhar that the ethnic Bodos would be putting up a rail blockade starting Aug. 2 in Kokrajhar to draw attention to their demand for statehood.

But the dispute is as much about money as Kurdish demands for statehood – specifically who gets Iraq's oil.

Elsewhere in India, demands for statehood have intensified in several regions as the issue has mushroomed into a nationwide political tempest for the governing Congress Party.

China has tried to maintain firm ties with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority while supporting Palestinian demands for statehood and occasionally chiding the Israeli government for its policies toward the Palestinians.

Turkey, a non-Arab Muslim nation, has had close ties with Israel since the two sides signed a military cooperation deal in 1996, but it also maintains full diplomatic relations with the Palestinians and supports their demands for statehood.

Why, Palestinian officials have wondered in recent days, should they agree to a truce if it does not address demands for statehood that even the Bush administration has endorsed?

If the Palestinians do not pursue their demand for full statehood, an alternative course would be to push for a lesser "observer member" status.

Their insistence on including a demand for Jewish statehood in any proposal to aid European Jewry politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds.

These bonds formed the basis of the new political identity of Uttarakhand, which gained significant momentum in 1994, when demand for separate statehood achieved almost unanimous acceptance among both the local populace and national political parties.

Thank you for the Oct. 21 editorial on the need for statehood for the District of Columbia ["The District vote is about more than statehood"].

In exchange for his life, he has been exhorting his followers to abandon their 15-year-long armed campaign, together with demands for Kurdish statehood.