Sentence examples for splittist a from inspiring English sources

Mr Sarkozy opposed the decision, but Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, called the Dalai Lama, reviled by China's government as a "splittist", a "champion of peace".All this has made Carrefour, a French retail chain with more than 100 shops in China, a target for protests and boycott calls.

They have called him a splittist and a terrorist whose goal is to separate Tibet from China.

The Dalai is still, officially, "a national splittist with a religious overcoat"; his nine-day trip to the United States, which began on November 5th, and the "international clamours" it is generating, provide further proof of his "insincerity", it is said in Beijing.

But China's Communist party leaders accuse him of being an independence-seeking "splittist" and a "wolf in sheep's clothing".

Beijing views the Nobel Peace Prize-winner as a "splittist", though he now advocates a "middle way" with China, seeking autonomy but not independence for Tibet.

But the Chinese government vilifies him as a "splittist," and says he ruled over a feudal slave-holding society.

In Beijing-speak, the Dalai Lama is a "splittist," someone out to split off a chunk of China.

He has been called a "jackal," a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and, routinely, a "splittist".