How to Use separatism in a Sentence

separatism

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  • The separatism starts to wear on the family as a whole.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • He was charged with separatism and sentenced to life in prison.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2020
  • But under the strain of slump and separatism, the old two-party system has splintered.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • He is being held on charges such as the incitement of separatism.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The valor of separatism, after all, is our founding myth.
    — Michelle Legro, Longreads, 27 May 2017
  • Some had hired thugs to defend their rule and flirted with separatism when a new government came to power.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Five hours away, downstate in East St. Louis, Black separatism reached our dinner tables too.
    — Goldie Taylor, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2022
  • There’s also religious separatism, as in the New Kingdom of Utah.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • The central government in Beijing may succeed in quashing Uighur separatism in the short term.
    — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Singh's movement is an offshoot of a Sikh separatism push that first began in the 1980s, India cracked down on efforts to create a Sikh state in Punjab.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Fast-forward three decades, and separatism is largely in retreat.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • But Adekoya acknowledges that Buhari faces an uphill battle on the issue of separatism.
    — Stephanie Busari and Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The unity turned out to be ephemeral; the city was swiftly convulsed over the rights of Montreal’s French speakers and the broader question of Quebec separatism.
    — David Shribman, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The author is too ready to blame Basque terror and Catalan separatism on the clumsiness of Madrid, rather than on their practitioners.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • Turkey and the Kurds have a long and checkered history, and Erdogan is as opposed to Kurdish separatism and statehood as the Kurds are in favor of it.
    — Jim Talent, National Review, 17 Oct. 2019
  • If the Justices abdicate on the race issue now, the virus of racial separatism will spread ever more deeply into American life.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 May 2021
  • He was formally arrested in 2014 and sentenced to life in prison for separatism later that year.
    — Jewher Ilham For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 18 Apr. 2022
  • But Catalan separatism hasn’t gone away, as the December elections prove.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 30 Jan. 2018
  • But Ireland avoided both fascism and the second world war, so its party names still echo the fervour of early-20th-century separatism.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2020
  • But, intentionally or not, Far Cry 5 doesn’t feel like a failed attempt to explore far-right separatism.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
  • For him, quarantine equals chaos equals political separatism equals the end of the Ottoman Empire.
    — Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The more radical branches of Catalan separatism did well.
    — The Economist, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The Black Hammer group was known for activism for Black separatism, including seeking the return of all indigenous land to non-white people.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The central struggle in this show will be how to forge peaceful alliances across cultures and species, despite militant separatism.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Some even see Pakistan’s move as a direct strategy to revive Sikh separatism.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Were there a lot more people living in the Pelican State that believed in white privilege, in racial separatism by region, by nation?
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
  • But there are also many Catalans who oppose separatism.
    — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Trump’s election let middle-class racists like Sheehan—men who nurture fantasies of ethnic separatism but aren’t going to tattoo swastikas on their faces or don white hoods—come out of the closet.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Nijjar’s activism went beyond Sikh separatism, his son said.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • This may have been a low point, but not even the more edifying moments of the discussion shed much light on the essential conflict between Brustein’s commitment to integration and Wilson’s appeal for separatism.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023

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