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Example sentences for "separatists"

Lexicographically close words:
separating; separation; separations; separatism; separatist; separator; separators; separatory; sepe; seperate
  1. But the Jeffersonians were separatists and State's-rights men.

  2. The Separatists Play into the Hands of the Spaniards.

  3. While the planting of colonies on the shores of Chesapeake Bay and on the Caribbean islands was in progress, other settlements were being formed in New England by English Separatists and Puritans.

  4. To avoid persecution many Separatists had migrated to Amsterdam, and there in 1608 Robinson and his followers gathered, removing later to Leyden.

  5. In 2005, Indonesia reached a historic peace agreement with armed separatists in Aceh, but it continues to face a low intensity separatist guerilla movement in Papua.

  6. Tensions between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil separatists erupted into war in 1983.

  7. The Philippine Government faces threats from an armed Communist insurgency and from Muslim separatists in the south, as well as from impeachment attempts by political elites and civil groups unhappy with the current administration.

  8. He was a prominent member of the Separatists Church in that town, the meeting for the settlement of Reverend Alexander Miller, their pastor, being held at his house.

  9. They were Separatists and probably were drawn to Voluntown because a Church holding that faith was there established.

  10. The Independents in particular were harshly treated, so that many fled to Holland, where there was religious toleration for all; and from this branch of the Separatists came the Pilgrims, who first colonized New England.

  11. Sometimes the Separatists were called Brownists, after one of their prominent teachers, Robert Browne.

  12. In politics the paper sided with the separatists and clamored for revolutionary action by Kentucky.

  13. This loyal counter-movement hindered and hampered the separatists greatly, and made them cautious about advocating outright disunion.

  14. All these causes combined to produce much irritation, and the separatists began to talk rebellion.

  15. The national feeling among the separatists was so slight that the very communities which wished to break off from the Atlantic States were also quite indifferent to the deeds and fates of one another.

  16. Maoist Assamese separatists from India, who have established themselves in the southeast portion of Bhutan, have drawn Indian cross-border incursions.

  17. Tensions between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil separatists erupted in violence in the mid-1980s.

  18. When they began to form these local churches, they separated themselves from the Church of England, and for this reason are called Separatists and Independents.

  19. One of these churches of Separatists was at Scrooby, in the east of England.

  20. The world knows what that verdict was, and will never forget that it was largely due to the splendid eloquence of Daniel Webster when he defended the cause of nationality against the slave-holding separatists of South Carolina.

  21. You Separatists despise the ministering of the Church, but what have ye set in its place?

  22. They were called Separatists or "Come-outers" in their own country, and much persecuted on account of their nonconformity with the established Church.

  23. The Separatists at Zoar, Ohio, about halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburg, are a body of Germans who fled from Würtemberg in 1817 to escape religious persecution.

  24. Yet soon they in effect became Separatists as well as Puritans, building independent churches, like those at Plymouth, and repudiating episcopacy utterly.

  25. At Salem he was invited by a little company of Separatists to become their teacher.

  26. It was among the German Huguenots that the puritanical character of the Genevan and Flemish Separatists found many adherents, their staid demeanour had exercised an influence on other great houses both in Frankfort and along the Rhine.

  27. In spite of the wishes of successive Parliaments, the Protestant separatists had been cruelly persecuted.

  28. When we read His Grace's judgments, when we read the report which he drew up, setting forth that he had sent some separatists to prison, and imploring the royal aid against others, we feel a movement of indignation.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "separatists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.