secessionist
Example Sentences
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The Insurrection Act was Abraham Lincoln’s sword against secessionists and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s shield around the Little Rock Nine, the young Black students who were the first to desegregate schools in Arkansas.
From Los Angeles Times
He is wrestling with a growing secessionist movement in the oil-rich province of Alberta.
L.A.’s nonchalant highhandedness can gall today as it did 101 years ago when it precipitated what secessionists hailed as the “day of deliverance” from the “imperial county.”
From Los Angeles Times
Such efforts eventually pushed the high representative to take action and annul the secessionist legislation.
From BBC
Cameroon is also in the grips of a secessionist war that has killed more than 6,000 people in the west of the country.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
