Sentence examples for separatism from inspiring English sources

Victory in Jaffna could lead to greater Tiger infiltration of Tamil Nadu and the stirring of latent separatism there.India has strong reasons to back Mrs Kumaratunga's efforts to keep Sri Lanka whole, but equally strong reasons to be wary.

Ethnic separatism is not among the major ones.

Freedom of press is alive and well for publishers of all political views in Ecuador.Ana Albán Mora Ambassador for Ecuador LondonSIR – Your article on corruption in Canada stated that apart from the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP), all the other parties in Quebec "lean towards separatism" ("Les fleurs du mal", December 11th).

This is wrong as the party that I lead, the Action Démocratique du Québec, is against separatism.

How would Britain react, they demanded, if the Chinese sent someone to foment separatism in Wales?

If EH Bildu ever unseated the PNV, separatism would dominate local politics, just as it does in Catalonia.

Egged on by the PKK, Syrian Kurds have established autonomous cantons which Turkey fears will sharpen Kurdish separatism within its own borders.

Despite a dalliance with separatism during the 1970s, spurred by the discovery of oil, few Shetland Islanders want to secede, which is why Mr Scott then proceeded to explore an alternative: that, in the event of Scottish secession, the northern isles might opt to stay British.

Mr Chrétien argued that the government's extravagant sponsorship of festivals and almanacs had reduced support for separatism in the province.

This aims to deal with the three big dangers (at least as seen by autocratic multi-ethnic countries): terrorism, separatism and extremism.

The record of abuses committed by the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed there is a blot on the reputation of the world's largest democracy, as is India's undermining, time and again, of Kashmiri local governments that flirted too obviously with separatism.