separatist movement

collocation in English

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separatist
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsep.ər.ə.tɪst/us
/ˈsep.ɚ.ə.tɪst/
someone who is a member of a particular race, religion, or other group within a country and who believes that this group should be independent and have their own government or in some way live apart from ...
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movement
noun
uk
/ˈmuːv.mənt/us
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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(Definition ofseparatistandmovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Having successfully dealt with aseparatistmovementmay earn credibility for the government in future negotiations with other dissatisfied groups.
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Such a structure would not be a new revolutionary,separatistmovement.
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Several leaders from theseparatistmovementwere also detained.
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Theseparatistmovementwas largely crushed in the mid-1990s.
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Each had at least a dozen islands and in each of those small countries there was aseparatistmovement.
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I ought to make it perfectly clear that it is not a question of aseparatistmovementof any kind.
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It is a regionalist andseparatistmovementthat self-identifies with the promotion of civic nationalism.
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Theseparatistmovementcaused many to leave in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Later the busts of other members of theseparatistmovementwere added to the square.
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He was again re-elected in 1902, by which stage theseparatistmovementwas dying down.
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By its very nature, aseparatistmovementis an attack upon the integrity of the state, which the state feels called upon to repress.
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This is to say nothing of the effect on the universities themselves and the stoking up of theseparatistmovementthat this sort of action is fuelling.
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At any rate, the adoption of official bilingualism at the federal level did nothing to slow the rise of theseparatistmovement.
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His choice of a conference, all going well, could possibly secure the future of constitutional nationalism and halt the progress of theseparatistmovement.
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As a result, the southern area of the state became more developed, and there had been a strongseparatistmovementin the north for many years.
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