Sentence examples for separatism from from inspiring English sources

Jokar Dudaev, who led Chechnya's first bid for separatism from Russia, was killed by a Russian missile in 1996.

How can Kurdish autonomy be accepted without inviting separatism from the Shiites, who make up 60percentt of the country?

Yet Spain's deepening recession and budget cuts have helped shift separatism from fringe to mainstream thinking among Catalan politicians and business leaders.

A second affiliate, the strictly orthodox Jamiat Ahl-i-Hadith, based in Birmingham, practises a form of Islam which demands strict separatism from mainstream society.

The answer to either extremism or separatism from these two rather different political animals is to spell out what it means to be British.

Different groups had different definitions of separatism, ranging from a refusal to associate with men to a refusal to associate with straight women to a refusal to associate with gay women who weren't separatists.

In the 1980's punk's guiding ethos evolved from opposition to separatism; for many bands the goal was to create a self-sustaining punk community.

Ukraine's interim president, Olexander Turchynov, warned on Tuesday that the country faced a "serious threat" from separatism.

This time Mr. Bossi, who has scaled down his rebel platform from separatism to greater federalism, again joined forces with Mr. Berlusconi's center-right Forza Italia.

Yet none of this is to deny that Miss Megawati now faces a daunting list of difficulties, from separatism to economic stagnation (see article).One large uncertainty that remains after Mr Wahid's departure is the influence of the army.

Mebyon Kernow is a Cornish party that seeks a national assembly for the county, but the real push for separatism might come from Shetland and Orkney, for whom Edinburgh is as remote as London.