separatist
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Local officials say he was not only a Basque separatist but also a member of ETA, the militant group that sought to carve out an independent Basque state from Spain and France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Asked by the BBC how he felt in one sentence after the results, separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre simply said: "Not happy".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
But separatist leaders projected a starkly different message after the results came in.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, the Parti Québécois won enough seats in last week’s provincial election to form a separatist minority government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
But like the Southern Baptists and other conservative denominations, the Assemblies gradually dropped their separatist strictures as their membership prospered and spread.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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"It's not out of the realm of possibility", he added, that Alberta separatists could do the same in the future.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Stimson was previously jailed in the UK in 2015 for joining pro-Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
When a judge dealt another blow to separatists in May, Smith appealed the ruling and called the referendum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
While she is correct that the separatists who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620 eschewed the pejorative term Puritan, she errantly suggests that they called themselves Pilgrims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
When the war between the British and separatists began, both sides vied to win the Haudenosaunee as allies.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Canada - Introductory
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