Sentence examples for pressing for autonomy from inspiring English sources

Only partly in jest, he pulls out a one-peso banknote printed in Oaxaca a century ago, when the state was pressing for autonomy during the Mexican revolution.

Kabylia, a prosperous region east of the capital whose largely Berber population has begun pressing for autonomy, is now a no-go zone for the federal gendarmerie.Ironically, this disintegration of central control comes at a time when the country's economic prospects are improving at last.

The campaign unfolds as pro-Russia separatists — with the support of Moscow, Ukrainian and Western officials charge — have been seizing government buildings in eastern Ukraine, pressing for autonomy or even annexation by Russia.

A Hungarian minority group is pressing for greater autonomy in a region where its members outnumber Romanians.

In resurrecting their own history (which had been consigned to silen by Russian authorities) in opening their politics, & pressing for economic autonomy, the Estonians have set in motion the centrifugal force of national separatism now operating in the Baltic states.

The attack came as Turkey wages an offensive against the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), which launched an armed insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, initially fighting for Kurdish independence, then pressing for greater autonomy for the country's largest ethnic minority.

Montenegro's 37-year-old president, Milo Djukanovic, is pressing for wide autonomy from Belgrade's rule).

Both Sunni and Shia parts of the country are pressing for more regional autonomy, suggesting that political boundaries may soon cement sectarian divisions.

But Ms. Kadeer's and the Chinese government's dueling, sometimes hyperbolic, accounts have sowed confusion and created an even wider chasm between the government and those pressing for greater Uighur autonomy.

The Liberal Democrats said that, in pressing for full fiscal autonomy, the SNP were "veering away" from an economic strategy "that has delivered 174,000 new jobs for Scotland and putting the recovery at risk".

That did not come to pass, and the Kurds have never forgotten Sèvres, although today they are pressing for a federalist Iraq, which will guarantee them autonomy and not independence.