Sentence examples for pursuing independence from inspiring English sources

But, the officials say, an oil agreement is impossible as long as the Kurds insist on pursuing independence.

(Iraq's minority Kurdish population, concentrated in the north of the country, had flirted with the idea of pursuing independence).

China has accused him of pursuing independence for Tibet, while he maintains that he is seeking only autonomy, not separation.

"Whether people like or not, Catalonia does most of its trade with the rest of Spain, so pursuing independence would add a lot of uncertainty, which is not exactly what people need in the middle of a crisis," said Sara González, a 34-year-old chemist.

What changed in companies like Box and so on and so forth turning down acquisition offers, and instead pursuing independence?

In July 1990, they established a Serbian National Council to coordinate opposition to Croatian President Franjo Tuđman's policy of pursuing independence for Croatia.

Salmond said winning a second term as first minister would give the SNP an undeniable mandate to pursue independence.

All three of Taiwan's leading presidential candidates have declared that they will not pursue independence from the mainland.

Her book is sub-titled "Why happiness eludes the modern women", by which she means women who pursue independence and who blame men for their troubles.

In an interview published today, Mr. Kostunica also appealed to Montenegro not to pursue independence, but the Montenegrin president insisted he would seek a form of statehood.

Long live free Scots, Catalans and Québécois.Jean-Martin Aussant Member of Quebec's National Assembly Quebec City SIRR – I arrived in Quebec in 1976 shortly after the election of René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois, whose policy was to pursue independence from Canada.