Sentence examples for win autonomy from inspiring English sources

He said God's Army had 150 soldiers at its peak while fighting to try to win autonomy for the ethnic Karen minority in Myanmar.

The ceasefire follows the release earlier this year from Indian jails of leading separatist politicians, and a recent attempt by the state's Muslim chief minister, Farooq Abdullah, to win autonomy.

Without some accountability for the civilian deaths, the United States and its supporters argue, there will be no lasting reconciliation to allow Sri Lanka to turn a corner on a civil war that dragged on for 26 years as the Tamil Tigers unleashed extremes of violence to win autonomy for the mainly Tamil northern and eastern parts of the island from its overall Sinhalese majority.

Jinnah feared that at the end of the British presence in India, they would turn control over to the Congress-dominated constituent assembly, putting Muslims at a disadvantage in attempting to win autonomy.

Iraqi Kurdish leaders, including President Jalal Talabani, whose people across the border have won autonomy, have been giving advice.

Such was their sturdy sense of independence that they won autonomy from Denmark in 1904 and steered clear of the EU.

Kurds view Turkey's idea as an effort to undercut their recently won autonomy in northern Syria.

The Dalai Lama has said in recent weeks that he is ready to concede failure to win true autonomy for his people and that he now wants other Tibetans to advise on a path forward.

In fact, the two groups appear to a large extent to be one and the same, and share the same goal: fighting campaigns to win new autonomy and rights for Kurds in Iran and Turkey.

The Chinese government is hostile to the Dalai Lama's efforts to win greater autonomy for Tibet, accusing him of trying to split up China, reinstate a theocracy and force out Han Chinese, members of the country's ethnic majority who have, with central government backing, migrated into Tibet in large numbers.

Meanwhile the Houthi rebels, who belong to the minority Zaidi Shia community, have staged periodic uprisings since 2004 to win greater autonomy for their northern heartlands.