Sentences with phrase «taureg secessionists»

And without the majority, secessionists concede, the effort to break away from Spain will be set back for years.

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.

The protests followed a traumatic week in Catalonia, where 1.5 m took to the streets amid a wave of secessionist demands.

The British, for their part, cleverly borrowed Abraham Lincoln, whose argument against southern secession seemed to them to rebut the pretensions of the American «secessionists» of 1776.

The southern secessionists of 1861 were claiming that their behavior was not an overturning of the Constitution, but lawfully consistent with it.

Chauvinist nationalism should not smother individual and group rights, ethnic identities and innocent aspirational autonomy without secessionist syndromes.

Still, her presentation was a respectable attempt to tone down Republika Srpska's secessionist image.

It is also important to point out two theoretical elements that are behind the current political debates, not just in Catalonia, but in secessionist processes in many liberal democracies:

The Catalan case constitutes a clear empirical point of reference within the sphere of comparative politics on secessionist processes in liberal democracies, and constitutes a dynamic element in the European Union in an increasingly globalised world.

Because of the nationalist and secessionist sentiment in Balochistan and reports of severe state repression, many people think that Balochistan is Pakistan's present day East Pakistan.

The conclusion was that there could be «no secession within secession» — a decision which excluded Kosovo from legal recognition as a secessionist case.

There are a number of different possible scenarios: either through agreements within the context of the Spanish state through agreements with European or international mediation (which currently seem unlikely), or through the mobilization of citizenry and a secessionist institutional disconnection.

Since Georgia can not have failed to realise that Russia would oppose a violent reintegration of the secessionist territory, or that the possibility of winning a war with Russia was nil, Saakashvili's confidence that the invasion was still a realistic option could only have stemmed from a belief — resting on the perception of Georgia as an integral part of the Western alliance — that NATO would certainly back him, and the threat of them doing so would be enough to prevent Russia from retaliating.

UNSC 550 «condemns all secessionist actions».

Two important parties, the secessionist Catalan Republican Left (ERC) and the Spanish Popular Party (PP), campaigned for a «no» vote (although for opposite reasons).

It should be remembered that Russia remains genuinely interested not to look like a spoilsport and a secessionist appeaser this time.

The recent military redeployments, the speedy legislative changes in the Russian parliament to facilitate reintegration of secessionist territories, and the calls for protection of co-ethnics suggest that Russia is using this opportunity to take back its gift of 1954.

Its victory in the Spanish national election of November 2011, was counteracted in Catalonia with a secessionist majority in its Parliament for the first time in democracy.

Those states exercise sovereignty — and some, like Texas, flirt at times with secessionist rhetoric — but they are not sovereign in the same way that the United Kingdom is as an EU «member» state.

«Let it be known, that it is illogical to wait in this obvious and clear state of danger until the secessionist unleashes terror on innocent people and communities.

It is also recruiting left - overs of criminal elements in the region into its fold, who are assured about the veiled cover of BSS to hide and audaciously commit heinous crimes against the people, undetected and un-policed, masked with the garments of secessionists struggles in public appeal.

The apex Igbo body, however, assured that secessionist agitations will be addressed through a well...

Recall that, the Coalition of Northern Groups, (CNG) had in Kaduna issued the quit notice in June, asking Igbos to vacate the North before October 1 as they claimed their demand was in response to the secessionist stance of some pro-Biafran groups, like the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

The Ohaneze Ndigbo says secessionist agitations will be addressed through a well restructured federal system, anchored on justice, equity, rule of law and equal...

The report further argues that a successful election boycott by the IPOB poses extreme danger to the Federal Government and national politics as it will boost the confidence of secessionists and equally trigger the drive for other ethnic groups or sections of the country to toe the same line.

«It is therefore imperative that the federal government avoid the use of force and especially militarization of the state to avoid low voter turn - out and also to avoid violence or a face - off with the remnants of the proscribed IPOB secessionist movement», the report said.

And if they are demanding for anything, to carry arms against the federal government is a clear indication that they are more than secessionists.

Shortly before the Catalan vote, Rajoy urged lawmakers to give him the power to dismiss Catalonia's secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont, his deputy, and all regional ministers.

Catalan authorities said 90 percent voted «Yes» in the unregulated plebiscite held up by secessionist leaders as a mandate for independence for the wealthy region of 7.5 million people.

Then came the baleful riposte, from some Arewa «youths»; who growled that should the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) be serious with its secessionist threat, then the Igbo, living and earning their living in the North, must quit that region by October 1 — or else!

References Europe has plenty of secessionist movements like Catalonia.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter «has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.»

The destruction of the Liberal Democrats in 2015 poses both a tactical and strategic dilemma for any would - be secessionists.

The Arewa coalition which gave the notice said it did so in reaction to secessionist agitations by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Not surprisingly various secessionist agitations have re-surfaced-the Avengers in the Niger - Delta have had particularly debilitating economic consequences, while the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and its imprisoned leader, Nnamdi Kanu have become notorious for their defiance of federal power.

*** Cautions MASSOB, IPOB on secessionist agitations As the December deadline given by President Muhammadu Buhari for the military to end Boko Haram insurgency increasingly looks untenable, going by the recalcitrance of the terrorists» group to surrender,...

Secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of alleged human rights violation and breach of the constitution before and after...

He had not been seen since September 22, 2017 when his team of lawyers and family declared him missing after soldiers allegedly invaded his home in Abia State during a military operation staged by the Nigerian Army to quell the secessionist activities of IPOB in the South - East zone of the country.

The evidence of MASSOB / IPOB violent secessionist agitations is widely known across the national and international domains.

When coupled with existential challenges like a secessionist movement splitting a country in half, as is happening in Mali, environmental challenges take on heightened worries.

Much of the gas and oil produced in the Russian Federation comes from non-Russian enclaves such as Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, where secessionist movements are strong and unrest could break out at any time.

Secessionists were total designers who envisioned ways of living through clothing, furniture and upholstery.

The Austrian designer built his latest collection around Secessionist Koloman Moser — a match made in heaven — but the execution was clumsy at times.

A request to speak with his aunt Jean — the sort of inquiry any filmmaker would routinely log — leads directly to rifle salutes and battle games, since this aunt is a member of the forthrightly racist and proudly secessionist League of the South.

It strengthened Northern slavery opposition, divided the Democratic Party on sectional lines, encouraged secessionist elements among Southern supporters of slavery to make bolder demands, and strengthened the Republican Party.

Many of those 19th Century soldiers were slave owners, many were secessionists and others were likely not ideological at all.

Born in Maryland in 1817, Greenhow was an ardent secessionist.

She drilled her fists into her hips and said, «I am a secessionist.»

In Maryland, a border state with a large secessionist population, one woman claimed a Union soldier thrust his hands against her bosom, under the pretense of looking for concealed arms.

Secessionist style building with 2 new wings; located at Rakoczi St & Grand Blvd; on - site restaurant and bar; multilingual staff.