Sentence examples for separatists are far from inspiring English sources

Keeping the country together was among his most important achievements, although even now the separatists are far from extinct.But a catalogue of his domestic reforms, however important to Canadians, would do little to explain why Pierre Trudeau was seen as an exciting politician by the world at large.

"All Jolas are far from being separatists, but most of the separatists are Jolas," says Jean-Claude Marut, a specialist on the conflict.

An independent Scotland, separatists argued, would be far better off and far richer than it would as a small part of a United Kingdom.

That didn't justify Moscow's support for Ukrainian separatists, but it was far different than a Hitleresque Blitzkrieg across Ukraine.

James L. Guth, a professor of political science at nearby Furman University, said Bob Jones represented a separatist fundamentalism that is far less common in the United States than it once was.

Far from being oppressed, Catalan separatists are making a selfish bid to keep more tax revenues at home, starving Spain's poorer regions of investment.

Clashes in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east have regularly punctured a ceasefire reached on Sept. 5 in talks in Minsk between Russia, Ukraine and separatist leaders and it is far from clear if Dec. 9 can herald a lasting cessation of violence.

Not far from Georgia, for example, is an Armenian enclave that wants to secede from Azerbaijan, and Kurdish separatists are seeking their own homeland in regions of Turkey and Iraq.

Separatists are an illusion.

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Although it has experienced sporadic separatist violence, support for the Kiev government is far more widespread.