What's the difference between breakaway and separatist?
Breakaway
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Separatist
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(n.) One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.
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(1) More likely is that the constitutional court would use its recently beefed-up powers to deal with separatists if they were to assume powers that the constitution does not allow them.
(2) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(3) An estimated 1,000 people from Odessa have joined separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine.
(4) A preliminary agreement with the two main separatist groups was signed in June.
(5) Who wants to be seen with that narrow, ungenerous and (to the rest of Canada) irritating thing, a separatist?
(6) In Catalonia the outspoken local politician is derided as a feeble sellout for opposing total independence; in the rest of Spain he is damned as a rabid separatist for wanting a bit more self-governance.
(7) Of course, I am very worried about them.” Separately, at least three people were killed in clashes in the south-western city of Odessa, which has largely resisted the domino effect of pro-Russian separatists taking over Ukrainian cities in the east.
(8) He said the Ukrainian army did not have such missiles in the area, and said none had been seized by separatist fighters in recent weeks.
(9) Speaking in Manila, Obama said the goal of the new round of sanctions was to change the Russian calculation in its alleged sponsorship of separatists in Ukraine.
(10) When he last travelled to Kiev, Ukrainian border guards stopped him for six hours at the border and accused him of being a separatist, underlining the difficulties faced by those who support Ukraine and decide to stay in Crimea.
(11) By now, those described, not entirely accurately, as “pro-Russian separatists” largely comprise desperate bitter-enders, who increasingly fear – with justification – that Moscow has hung them out to dry.
(12) The agreement between Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes), a coalition of the centre-right Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) party and leftist Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC) party, and the far-left minority partner Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) gives the separatist bloc a slim majority in the 135-seat Catalan parliament.
(13) Ukraine’s government and Russian separatists have blamed each other for the crash.
(14) You have to protect the country against the separatist movements, against the Uighurs or the Tibetans, I can understand not doing that subject.
(15) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
(16) One short-notice exercise was used to move Russian forces to annex Crimea in February 2014 and others were employed to support separatists in eastern Ukraine and to stage a military build-up on Ukraine’s border.
(17) He was in the separatist movement from 2005 to 2008, and recently completed the government programme.
(18) Shops, businesses and schools have remained closed because of the security lockdown and protest strikes called by separatists, who challenge India’s sovereignty.
(19) There are fears that, with Yanukovych losing control of the west of the country and Kiev, Russia may attempt to promote separatist movements in Crimea, which is largely ethnically Russian.
(20) It would be a war crime under international law if separatists had deliberately targeted a civilian plane.