Sentence examples for won autonomy from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

He has won limited autonomy in most of Gaza and disconnected parcels of the West Bank.

But a handful have been serious, and a few aspiring Poo-Bahs have won some autonomy for their fledgling states, albeit briefly.

With no pro-Eta party able to stand, the balance of power shifted away from the ­nationalists for the first time since the Basque country won considerable autonomy in 1979.

In two phases in the 1990s, more than a quarter of a million people, mostly Muslims, were driven out and left to languish in makeshift camps.After the Bodos won their autonomy and turned to enjoying the power that came with it, things seemed to returned to normal.