nationalist
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Secessionist movements regularly have "economic motivations," but typically those are married to a linguistic or nationalist component, Griffiths said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
As a Catholic, Abbott has also managed to keep a discrete distance from the evangelicals who are the backbone of the Christian nationalist movement.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Lara Jesani, a lawyer who has helped interfaith couples obtain court protection, said details of planned weddings have sometimes reached relatives and Hindu nationalist groups opposed to them within that notice period.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
From India to Indonesia, Mr. Van de Ven writes, “previously polite, elite nationalist murmurings soon gained large, passionate, and occasionally explosive followings.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
That, in turn, could arouse nationalist sentiments among ethnic Koreans in the Chinese borderlands.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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Decades of conflict between predominantly Catholic nationalists seeking Irish unity and largely Protestant unionists who wanted to remain in the United Kingdom culminated in the Troubles, which killed more than 3,500 people.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
To be sure, across the British Empire, the hunger strike emerged as a shared language of democratic, anti-colonial resistance - embraced by suffragettes in Britain and nationalists in Ireland and India.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
A recurrent theme of “The Fire Agent” is the way that progress is exploited for wicked ends by militarists and nationalists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The ongoing fallout for the nationalists has not helped the party's brand.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
I told them I was a South African nationalist, not a Communist, that nationalists came in every hue and color, and that I was firmly committed to a nonracial society.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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