separatistin a sentence
- a separatist organization that advocates an independent Quebec
- a Kashmiri separatist movement fighting for independence from India
- A few minutes before the bell rang, a student asked what role mental disorders might have played in separatist movements.† (source)
- "They are Separatists," said Sift.† (source)
- My parents were murdered by Basque separatists.† (source)
- He feared that, if he got close to Harambee, the undertow would be irresistible and his oaths about integration, about taking the toughest path, mixing with kids from all races and creeds, would give way to a separatist compromise.† (source)
- To New Englanders it was very nearly sacred ground, as the place where the English separatists known as the Pilgrims had found refuge in the seventeenth century, settling at Leyden for twelve years before embarking for Massachusetts.† (source)
- In the melancholy city within, the boulevards were wide and laid out in symmetrical grids, the bells of cathedrals rang on time, the cops never smiled, and the jails overflowed with silent, abused separatists.† (source)
- They offer each other the spectrum of notions; the bombers are North Korean terrorists, or the growing white-separatist cell based on eastern Long Island, or even the worldwide agents of the Mossad you can always lay blame on them-who will never forget Kwang's verbal support of the children of the Intifada.† (source)
- He is said to be linked with the Japanese Red Army, the Organization for the Armed Arab Struggle, the West German Baader-Meinhof gang, the Quebec Liberation Front, the Turkish Popular Liberation Front, separatists in France and Spain, and the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.† (source)
- A couple of years ago I was seated in an auditorium in Detroit where Reverend Cleage was explaining to a conference of priests that what they called "black separatists" were in reality men who recognized the implacability of a white-imposed separation.† (source)
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- The Separatists are a small, violent group.† (source)
- What would happen if the Separatists attacked the Hegemony tourists or the new residents?† (source)
- But it shows how irrational the Separatists can be.† (source)
- Shipmaster Singh and Councilor Halmyn had briefed us on the so-called Separatists of Maui-Covenant.† (source)
- He was with the Separatists when the Council police arrived.† (source)
- I thought the Separatists had all been carted off to he isles.† (source)
- The same pride that later allowed her to face down the angry mob of Separatists on the steps of the Hegemony consulate in South Tern and send them to their homes in shame.† (source)
- In politics they were the active opposition of the Separatists.† (source)
- At this time, leaving origin out of view, there were in Judea the party of the nobles and the Separatist or popular party.† (source)
- Yet he was in no sense a Separatist; his hospitality took in strangers from every land; the carping Pharisees even accused him of having more than once entertained Samaritans at his table.† (source)
- Returning directly to Ben-Hur, it is to be observed now that there were two circumstances in his life the result of which had been to keep him in a state comparatively free from the influence and hard effects of the audacious faith of his Separatist countrymen.† (source)
- The nobles hated Joazar, the high-priest; the Separatists, on the other hand, were his zealous adherents.† (source)
- What ineffable misery the bigoted Separatists or Pharisees endured at finding themselves elbowed and laughed at in the procurator's presence in Caesarea by the devotees of Gerizim!† (source)
- Delivering his vestments to Ishmael, the new appointee, he walked from the courts of the Temple into the councils of the Separatists, and became the head of a new combination, Bethusian and Sethian.† (source)
- On this faith, dear reader, the Pharisees or Separatists—the latter being rather a political term—in the cloisters and around the altars of the Temple, built an edifice of hope far overtopping the dream of the Macedonian.† (source)
- The fact furnished the Separatists an additional cause for attack; and, when Samaria was made part of the province, the nobles sank into a minority, with nothing to support them but the imperial court and the prestige of their rank and wealth; yet for fifteen years—down, indeed, to the coming of Valerius Gratus—they managed to maintain themselves in both palace and Temple.† (source)
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