Sentence examples for pressing for independence from inspiring English sources

He thinks that in the meantime pressing for independence would be a vote-loser.

Montenegro's president, Milo Djukanovic, is pressing for independence, and has scheduled a referendum on the matter this summer.

The emperor is far away, and one alternative to wrangling with him (or to pressing for independence) is to avoid or blunt his policies.

But the Papuan leaders, who have long been pressing for independence from Indonesia, say they fear that BP is taking sides with the Indonesian government, as they are bypassed from all the lasting benefits.

But Mr. Djukanovic's visit is also a reminder that the status of a post-Milosevic Yugoslavia is still uncertain, with both Montenegro and Kosovo pressing for independence from even a newly democratic Serbia.

* Montenegro, Serbia's sister republic, is still pressing for independence despite Mr. Milosevic's fall, to the intense annoyance of the same West that backed Montenegro so lavishly when it seemed a little anti-Milosevic aircraft carrier.

The country urgently needs an agreement on Catalonia, where a separatist government has been pressing for an independence referendum.

Given the political sensitivity of the issue at a time when other European regions, notably Spain's Catalonia, are pressing for their own independence, the EU is loth to speculate about an independent Scotland's position.

Northern Ireland is pressing for greater economic independence, to allow it to compete with the Irish Republic.

Last year, she spoke passionately in Parliament about the difficulties of being a young Turkish woman pressing for Western-style independence against the wishes of her deeply traditional parents.

But Mr. Djukanovic has already set up his own army-like police force with Western help, and he appears to be pressing harder for independence now than when Mr. Milosevic was in power.