Sentence examples for fought for autonomy from inspiring English sources
Since then many Kurds have fought for autonomy or independence, and have been repressed in return.
This lack of vision created strong resistance from many native leaders led by Luis Muñoz Rivera, who had fought for autonomy under Spain.
The units are dominated by members of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, Syria's most powerful Kurdish group, affiliated with the Turkish Kurdish movement PKK, which long fought for autonomy in southeastern Turkey.
In 1946, Mustafa Barzani formed the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to fight for autonomy in Iraq.
For years, Bodo insurgent groups fought for political autonomy, with some seeking statehood and others seeking an independent Bodo nation.
The rebel group has fought for greater autonomy for non-Muslim southern Sudan from the Muslim, Arab north in a 20-year war.
In the sixties, students fought for more autonomy in dress, to signal allegiance to a particular band or clique or general attitude toward the world.
During the subsequent period of soul-searching, industrialists in the most developed region, Catalonia, fought for political autonomy to help modernise Spain (an idea given cultural expression in the modernist architecture of Gaudí, funded by those same industrialists).
Speaking at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) to mark Independence Day, she said the incoming government would seek to improve a ceasefire agreement the regime signed in October with eight ethnic minorities that have long fought for greater autonomy.
Ethnically-mobilized insurgencies fought for regional autonomy in Ethiopia leading up to the overthrow of the socialist regime in 1991, which led to Ethiopia's major ethnic groups being explicitly recognized as separate nations in the 1995 constitution.
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a militant group which has fought for greater autonomy for Turkey's Kurds since the early 1980s, attacked Turkish police, while Turkey launched airstrikes on the ethnic group in Iraq and a military campaign inside Turkey.
