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  • Kinda funny since her husband is a member of a secessionist party - but they are white – so all is forgiven – stupidity, pre-marital sex resulting in bastard kids, lack of intelligence or any intellectual curiosity. Palin steps down as Alaska governor
  • The secessionist government boycotted the elections in order to bolster its claims for international recognition as a separate state.
  • The ruling party called the secessionist resolution a "retrograde step" and vowed to quash it when it is debated at the federal level.
  • The country's transition would descend from a matter of managing change to managing chaos, especially as secessionist regions become a breeding ground for anarchy.
  • I have been following keenly the developments in the treason trial of the secessionists.
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  • The contest was close and heated, and resulted somewhat singularly in the election of a mixed ticket -- two Secessionists being returned, and one Co-operationist, Mr. Huntingdon, owing to personal popularity. Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
  • At Elisabethville, capital of the secessionist province of Katanga, the plane was denied permission to land. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • More than television, in its infancy a socializing machine that involved the whole family, the transistor radio helped define boomers as a separate (even secessionist) generation.
  • For nine years, the PNG government habeen fighting a secessionist conflict on the copper and gold rich island province of Bougainville which has caused the latest uprest. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Slowly Yugoslavia fell apart as secessionist sentiment grew.
  • Pakistan has four major ethnic groups – Punjabis, Sindhis, Baloch, and Pathans – and now that they are running out of Hindus, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians to kill (Pakistan is 99% Muslim), they have turned on each other, and there are major secessionist movements in Balochistan and Sind. Matthew Yglesias » India’s Response to Terrorism
  • The government will continue peace talks with secessionists despite the passing Friday of a deadline for forging a peace deal.
  • That country is made up of three old Ottoman Empire provinces and they do have secessionist tendencies.
  • One can find a parallel in the Soviet Union and in Yugoslavia of the growing demand by states with widely differing ethnic and cultural identities for control over their own administration, trade, industry, and educational policies; and in India too a mistake is being made in seeing these movements as secessionist and antinational instead of an inevitable movement toward federalism. India: The Seed of Destruction
  • Secessionists argued that a Confederate tariff would accelerate Virginia's industrialization by classifying Northern products as dutiable foreign goods.
  • The rise of the Procurator Dantirya Sambail as a sort of quasi-king in Zimroel was the beginning of a secessionist movement there. KING OF DREAMS
  • Texas secessionists organized lynch mobs across the state to murder anyone who opposed secession.
  • Enforcing federal law against secessionist states precipitated war.
  • Secessionists eagerly implicated the national tariff, which had redirected Southern profits to Northern manufactures.
  • If she beats the "secessionist" her state owes her a huge debt of gratitude. Hutchison announces gubernatorial bid, raises $6.7 million
  • In the 2005 parliamentary elections, 99 per cent of Kurds voted for nationalist parties with an avowed secessionist agenda.
  • Glenn Beck -- who has promoted not just FEMA concentration camp theories, but also far-right "constitutionalist" theories on states rights and secessionist movements, just to name a few -- is easily the worst of the lot in this regard. Peter Daou: Why the National Debate is Still Conducted on the Right's Terms
  • He almost single-handedly brokered a peace deal with secessionist rebels in Chechnya last fall, thereby ending an inordinately bloody war.
  • In the Deep South, where the idea of disunion is taken most seriously, three main groups of secessionists can be identified. NYT > Home Page
  • It has been surmised that some of the so-called secessionists would continue to refer to the resolution to vindicate their demand for a plebiscite in the disputed state.
  • But he still would not go along with the rest of the South in the secession movement and even refusing to call a secessionist convention till he was forced to do so. Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston
  • The rise of the Procurator Dantirya Sambail as a sort of quasi-king in Zimroel was the beginning of a secessionist movement there. KING OF DREAMS
  • When most knowledgeable Americans hear the word secessionist, they think of the southern slave states that formed the Confederacy and seceded from the United States back in 1861. We Don't Need No Stinking Secessionists!
  • The military authorities could not find any evidence of their involvement in the so called secessionist movement in Balochistan province. ScreenTalk
  • He calmed secessionist sentiment by dealing constructively with the regional parties of Kashmir, Assam and Punjab.
  • His theories of nullification and state interposition offered a third path between unconditional unionists and secessionists.
  • The coming industrial glory, secessionists argued, would be quite compatible with the state's slave society.
  • The abandoned copper mine in the mountains has been controlled by secessionist rebels since the late 1980s.
  • This bleak worldview was reflected in art, such as the Vienna Secessionists, divorced from tradition, and in the Bauhaus architecture ‘starting from zero’ which begot brutalism.
  • It's certainly a big step forward, particularly as another secessionist group reached a political settlement with the government in 1996.
  • Dalai Lama as a political figure engaged in "secessionist" activities. Dalai Lama Arrives In Ottawa for Historic Visit
  • We secessionists believe that the 350-year swing of history's pendulum toward large, centralized imperial states is once again reversing itself. Vermont and Secession, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The government portrays the new laws on 'ordinary' autonomy as a large concession to all the resource-rich provinces which are showing secessionist symptoms.
  • A bloody affray, which is obscurely related, had occurred in St. Louis between the Secessionists and Federalists. The Civil War in America
  • Holden was an original secessionist, and his newspaper, the Standard, printed at Raleigh, was the mouth-piece of the Democracy until 1860, when this unblushing "scallawag," as the Southerners call political renegades, threw his Democratic sentiments out at window, and went in for the Union cause. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
  • They did this despite warnings from a number of quarters that the secessionist acts would provoke violent conflicts between ethnic groups.
  • Distinctions can be made between reformist, unificatory, and secessionist types, between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary forms, between successive liberal and conservative variants, and between European and colonial manifestations of nationalism.
  • But I think if we look more carefully we'll see that in many ways the tea party movement resembles more closely the kind of secessionist feelings that were both part of the Confederacy before the Civil War and then also remained in the post-civil war Reconstruction era. NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • A deserter claimed he was the victim of "Norwegian secessionists."
  • He encouraged legal reform, promoted dialogue with secessionist leaders, and attempted to end discrimination against the ethnic minority.
  • From her "secessionist" husband to the newest member of the Palin clan, Levi. Matthew Filipowicz: Exclusive "Not Seen On TV" Video Of Sarah Palin's First Interview
  • I wrote a little ditty on the latest election absurdities: the Obama-Ayers brouhaha vs. the Palin-Alaskan "secessionist" party flap. Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – October – 19
  • An anarchist-led, libertarian-populist, radical decentralist, pan-secessionist movement that appealed to the tradition and ideals of the American Revolution is the only possible avenue. Attack the System
  • My current favorite Palin controversy is whether or not she attended the secessionist Alaska Independence Party's 1994 convention. Alaska First! - Swampland - TIME.com
  • Their claim is that they were never part of the country and are therefore neither separatists nor secessionists.
  • The resurgence of ethnic or sectarian conflicts; the growth of secessionist movements, insurgencies, and failed states -- all these things have increasingly trapped civilians in unending chaos.
  • The secessionists triumphed in the early months of 1861, but the contest between these groups would continue even after these states left the Union.
  • The army is still at war with secessionists in the oil-rich province.
  • To a certain extent, the position of Virginia secessionists was hardly new.
  • The city now faces the dilemma of how best to live with a core of defeated yet unreconciled secessionists.
  • It said two military leaders from the former secessionist province of Katanga, now known as Shaba province, were in Zambia meeting with Zairian refugees who fled across the border throughout ANC Daily News Briefing
  • They were abducted by the secessionist guerrilla group they went to interview.
  • They frequently knew the mercenaries fighting for the ultimately unsuccessful secessionists, and even talked to them by radio.
  • In the de-structured, de-cultured universe of the expressionists, there was no place for Athena, whom the Secessionists had coopted from politics as the protectrix of their arts. Cultural Hothouse
  • The North Solomons was incorporated into Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975 - but against the wishes of its fledgling secessionist movement.
  • Meanwhile, the Namibian government has called the secessionist movement a "terrorist" conspiracy and accused Muyongo and Mamili of instigating it. ANC Daily News Briefing

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