Sentences with phrase «of secessionist»

There is no evidence of a secessionist movement even existing, let alone of Sonando being involved», said Oliver Courtney from Global Witness.

References Europe has plenty of secessionist movements like Catalonia.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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...

«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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Returning exhibitors include Galerie Thomas and Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, which shows a selection of Viennese secessionist works.

The exhibition explores themes converging around feminist activists from American history, domestic ornament in service of political messages, such as Quaker abolitionist quilts and pro-Confederacy secessionist cockades, and the recent removal of Baltimore's Confederate monuments.

Gordon is also the Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives, which records the living history of a group of runaways, secessionists and in - differents who form autonomous zones and settlements and have receded from living as obedient (and also resistant or resisting) subjects.

She is also he Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives, which records the living history of a group of runaways, secessionists and in - differents who form autonomous zones and settlements.

Includes a wide range of Photo - Secessionist works as well as contemporary photos from around the world.

The organic plant form will be an updated version of the detailing, which decorates Vienna Secessionist -LSB-...]

The irony of someone celebrating secessionist officers and still pretending to be something of a patriot is lost on you, apparently.

«I can not understand how a fringe, ignorant, conspiracy theory imbibing, secessionist is given space in the Washington Post to pen on issues she has no knowledge of, which happen to be the extreme - right wing scandal du jour,» responded Larisa Alexandrovna of at - Largely.

Daniel had been researching the basis for a screenplay about Maine and secessionists, and not being a lawyer, he wrote all sitting members of the U.S. Supreme Court for advice on how to depict a legal dispute over secession in his film to be.

When balanced against principles such as the protection of territorial integrity, the international community is highly unlikely to recognise secessionist movements in States that are conducting themselves in good faith.