Sentence examples for separatist tendencies from inspiring English sources

The Oromo people in southern Ethiopia occasionally display separatist tendencies.

The ensuing power vacuum could increase the country's separatist tendencies.

After Scotland and Catalonia, separatist tendencies multiplied, at times triggering territorial disputes.

Until those two provinces were lost to Islam in the 7th century, each Eastern emperor had to somehow cope with their separatist tendencies as expressed in the heresy.

The emergence of separatist tendencies in the early 1990s, following the loosening of Soviet hegemony over eastern Europe, ultimately led to the breakup of the federation.

Eventually Henry won his way to the throne after the extinction of the Valois line, overcame separatist tendencies in the provinces, and secured peace by accepting Catholicism.

Yet, for all its destructive aspects, its separatist tendency had value, for it promoted a sense of pride and the development of self-sufficiency.

Both in the Niagara Movement and in the NAACP, Du Bois acted mainly as an integrationist, but his thinking always exhibited, to varying degrees, separatist-nationalist tendencies.

Orthodox in his Trinitarianism and in his Christology, he was anxious not to appear to be an innovator, not to be tarred with the brush of Anabaptism, with its separatist and revolutionary tendencies.

A new coalition government was formed last fall, and it included the New Flemish Alliance, a center-right party with separatist aims, a free-market agenda, and a tendency toward mild anti-immigrant rhetoric.

As divorced from men and the heterosexual counterculture as separatists considered themselves to be, they did share certain generational tendencies.