Sentence examples for kosovan from inspiring English sources

The ongoing tensions are reflected in the fact that Mitrovica, one of the few Kosovan cities that has a significant Serbian population, retains a Nato peacekeeping force of 5,000 and sees periodic outbreaks of violence.

One article suggests Muslims in the Sandzak region of Serbia fear they may be the next victims of ethnic cleansing; another reports on the Kosovan refugees in Skopje, the Macedonian capital.

The hope is that Monsieur PESC will sound the alarm and stiffen the sinews when another Bosnian or Kosovan agony threatens.

When there were just 100 Kosovan refugees, there was little problem.

Antipathy towards anything to do with the Kosovan state (bar public-sector salaries) is so high here that the vote is no more than an exercise in rhetoric.Dragoljub, a burly moustachioed engineer who is helping organise the vote in Zvecan, tells me: "Everyone else in the former Yugoslavia had the right by referendum to say what they wanted Slovenes, Croats, Macedonians and Albanians.

They have business relationships in mainland Europe, particularly the Netherlands, where many of their supplies come from, with Triad groups like the 14K and Wo Shing Wo, with Colombian cartels, Turkish heroin merchants and Kosovan networks.

If you did not move too far away, why, you might be able to return when things got better; like 1999's Kosovan refugees, who mostly rejected offers to whisk them to distant lands, and rushed home as soon as they dared.The great movement of millions across the Atlantic was in part a tribal migration.

Today several thousand Serbian and Kosovan people seeking asylum in richer lands are returned home every year.

Despite divisions between EU countries over how to approach the crisis, it was made increasingly clear to Serbia that if it accepted Kosovan independence, Serbia could soon become a candidate for EU membership.

She is the feisty, sometimes foolhardy 15-year-old Kosovan daughter of Pam, who is something senior and hush-hush in international intelligence.

As the nine boys burst into a tuneful rendition of Michael Jackson's "We Are The World", it was explained to Mr Blair that since his intervention in the Kosovan conflict 10 years ago, he had become such a hero to Kosovan families that many of them had started naming their sons after him.