Sentence examples for ethnic autonomy from inspiring English sources

Others could as well, but since their populations are more mixed, this would favor geographic over simple ethnic autonomy.

The best way to preserve ethnic autonomy is to create a federal structure with strong regional powers and a relatively weak federal executive.

In a policy document on the "Successful Practice of Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Tibet", the government condemned the Dalai Lama for "plotting towards Tibetan independence".

In fact, the true function of this so-called Pakistan ideology is to suppress various types of popular empowerment, from ethnic autonomy to democracy to women's rights.

This constitution enshrined the principles of regionalism and ethnic autonomy, devolving power to regional states, several of them coalitions of smaller ethnic groups.

That's partly because officials have come to blame the collapse of the Soviet Union, to some degree, on a policy of granting too much ethnic autonomy to the reaches of the empire.

At times governments structured around ethnic federations have allowed for greater cultural autonomy and peaceful coexistence, but the political concept is not a governmental panacea.

In other developments, the Tatar assembly meeting in the historic capital of Bakhchisaray voted in favour of seeking "ethnic and territorial autonomy" within Crimea.

MITROVICA, Kosovo -- After years of impasse between the national government of Kosovo and ethnic Serbs demanding autonomy within their northern enclave in the new country, international pressure has intensified on the Serbs.

He rejects international proposals for returning the area to Azerbaijan's sovereignty while giving its ethnic Armenian population autonomy.Jerusalem bombedBombs exploded in Ben-Yehuda, the main pedestrian shopping street in central Jerusalem.

In addition, human rights groups and lawyers here contend, the government has swept up at least 4,000 other Pakistanis, most of them Baluchi and Sindhi nationalists seeking ethnic or regional autonomy who have nothing to do with the United States campaign against terrorism.