(n.) One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will.
Example Sentences:
(1) Potentially the most destabilising regional development is the secessionist movement in neighbouring northern Mali, driven by battle-hardened, largely secular Tuareg forces who fought for Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, as well as Islamist fighters.
(2) I imagine that many, or most, in both categories would vote in favour of Britain staying in Europe, and the Euro-secessionists are obviously worried that we might swing the outcome.
(3) Ruwa is the leader of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), a secessionist group outlawed by the Kenyan government in 2010 but unbanned by the courts in July.
(4) That is why every successful secessionist movement has founded its claim on legal entitlement to the territory that they seek to “liberate”.
(5) The emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers was convened in Brussels to respond to the upsurge in violence in eastern Ukraine, notably last week’s shelling of the town of Mariupol by pro-Russian secessionists which left 30 civilians dead and 100 wounded.
(6) Last week, the rebels announced that they had taken over and dissolved parliament, plunging the country deeper into turmoil and threatening to turn the crisis into a full-blown sectarian conflict, pitting the Iran-backed Houthi Shia against Sunni tribesmen and secessionists in the south.
(7) Given the complexity of Yemeni society, talks will need to take in the concerns of many of the others involved: notably players such as southern secessionists and tribal leaders, but also representatives of women’s groups and other civil society activists.
(8) What makes a secessionist claim successful in the eyes of the international community – indeed, in the eyes of the people fighting for secession – is the existence of a historical grievance over territory.
(9) The rise of Milosevic alarmed the non-Serb republics and reinforced secessionist movements, particularly in Slovenia and Croatia.
(10) His surprise decision brings an end to more than three months of deadlock between Mas’ “Together for Yes” secessionist alliance and the more radical, far-left separatist CUP party that together hold a majority in the Catalan parliament.
(11) The Northern League started as a secessionist party that argued for a separation of rich northern Italy from the poor south, but Salvini has – with mixed success – changed the party’s focus.
(12) He pointed in particular to the south-east, where Igbo secessionist groups are demanding the restoration of the ill-fated republic of Biafra.
(13) But across Europe we are now seeing the rise of both anti-establishment, anti-immigrant parties of the right and secessionist movements, such as the one in Scotland.
(14) Alarm about terrorism, secessionist movements, tribal warfare and economic collapse has seen the Saudis intervene increasingly in Yemen's multiple crises.
(15) Armed secessionist groups operate in several parts of the country.
(16) The leftwing and secessionist CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) had come under intense pressure to back Mas, who over the past three years has emerged as the key figure in the independence movement.
(17) The deal means that Catalonia is likely to accelerate its secessionist challenge in the ongoing game of chicken with the central government,” he said.
(18) The question many are asking is whether Mas is a closet secessionist who has finally come out or just an old-fashioned opportunist surfing the nationalist tide that has risen out of the economic crisis.
(19) Though there are no convictions, and the Pujols claim it is all a fabrication staged by Madrid, among the feisty masses of Catalonia it has pushed more secessionists towards the ERC.
(20) The Northern League chose what president Giorgio Napolitanio, called a "very delicate and crucial" moment to announce it was re-opening its ostensibly secessionist Parliament of Padania.
Separatist
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(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.