separatist
Example Sentences
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King Charles has "expressed his concern" over the Alberta separatist movement in a meeting with Indigenous leaders at Buckingham Palace, according to a delegation of First Nations chiefs that travelled to London.
From BBC
Such policies have manifested differently across China, with harsher tactics applied in areas seen as riven with separatist sentiment.
Tehran has also historically been wary of separatist sentiment among the around 10 million ethnic Azeris living in Iran.
From Barron's
Pakistan has long worried that Baloch in eastern Iran might launch attacks on its territory to strengthen a Baloch separatist movement there.
To do so, he’ll have to iron out disagreements over Canada’s Sikh population, which India accuses of stoking separatist sentiment on its soil.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.