Sentence examples for independence fight from inspiring English sources

The militant Basque separatist group ETA declared a permanent cease-fire on Monday, in what it called a firm step toward ending a independence fight of decades.

Politicians who did not take part in the independence fight, like Mr. Gomes, are held in suspicion and contempt by the military.

"Philhellenism", an exhibition, tells the story of the material and moral backing that Romantics like the English poet Byron gave Greece during its independence fight against the Ottomans.

But if I had to guess, I'd say he likes the articles popping up in the press this week, portraying the independence fight as a contest between two great political strategists, Salmond v Osborne.2.2

In Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe led a liberation struggle against a white-minority regime that ended in 1980, a presidential spokesman said Colonel Qaddafi would be remembered there for his support of Zimbabwe's independence fight and railed against foreign interference in Africa's affairs.

Captured activists and members of the South West African People's Organization — South Africa had intervened in the independence fight in the country that would become Namibia — would be bundled in planes, and during the flight out to sea, injected with lethal doses of surgical muscle relaxants before they were thrown overboard, miles from land.

While the Nagorno-Karabakh war was one of independence — fought within the context of a century-old genocide against the Armenians by the Turks, the fall of the Soviet Union and anti-Armenian pogroms — it was difficult for me, with my background, not to feel dismay that the same persecution the Armenians had suffered was perpetrated upon their Azeri neighbors.

In re-enacting, with a heavy heart and a heavy hand, the actual events surrounding the storied 1836 battle in the war of independence fought by Texas against the Mexican forces of General Santa Anna, the movie is both elegiac and trivial.

Maintaining the Spanish locale, he moves the action from 1409 (an unremarkable year in an era of obscure power struggles) to the still-remembered Spanish War of Independence, fought against Napoleon and memorialized for the ages in the nightmare imagery of Goya's "Desastres de la Guerra".

Thanks to the 1995 Hollywood blockbuster Braveheart, many people are familiar with the Scottish wars of independence, fought between the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

The Battle of Salta was the only conflict of the Argentine War of Independence fought in current Argentine territory under the modern flag of Argentina.