Sentence examples for separatism into from inspiring English sources

"Mas managed to turn separatism into a burning issue, but then ended up being overtaken by more radical parties in this debate and now finds himself in a much harder position to govern Catalonia in a time of crisis," said Ferran Pedret Santos, a lawyer who was himself elected for the first time Sunday as a Socialist lawmaker.

Later, black separatism evolved into the hopeless call for a black state carved out of Western lands, an idea that still thrives in Afrocentrist fantasies.

Albert II of Belgium, sometimes seen as his country's sole national figure as Flemish separatism moves into the political mainstream from the fringe, still occupies the throne at 78. Margrethe II of Denmark has just chalked up 41 years as queen ahead of her 73rd birthday in April.

So much has the political climate changed that the hurried merger of the Progressive Conservatives (PC) and the Canadian Alliance into a single Conservative Party has created a credible alternative to the Liberals.The turnaround is partly due to the bursting of a sleaze scandal from the Chrétien era, concerning a publicity campaign against separatism in Quebec which degenerated into a slush fund.

Since then, apart from a brief flirtation with separatism in the 1950s, the islands have faded into obscurity.

Yet if not dead, there are many signs that separatism has slumped into a deep coma.

It is partly Catholic and mostly Ukrainian-speaking.Yet these differences between east and west, exploited by politicians on both sides, have not turned into separatism or even hatred.

The Kosovo Serbs are intimidated into separatism by Serb paramilitary groups and police and given financial incentives by Belgrade, which they consider their only legitimate government.

By 1972, in the Nixon years, the optimism and aspirations of the civil rights movement had imploded into separatism and bitterness.

Crimea is a centre of pro-Russian sentiment, which can spill into separatism.

Separatism in the provinces is growing, not subsiding.