The confederation had become so close a political alliance that it no longer tolerated separatist tendencies in its members.

Uroš was weak and unable to counteract these separatist tendencies, becoming an inferior power in his own domain.

This was seen by Putin as a necessary move to stop separatist tendencies and get rid of those governors who were connected with organised crime.

He complains that by writing about the Afrikaners I am contributing to their separatist tendencies.

To stand against all separatist tendencies and to promote greater national integration and unity.

All separatist tendencies must be nipped in the bud.

The war also showed that the confederation had grown into a political alliance so close that it no longer tolerated separatist tendencies of a single member.

The rebellion had its beginnings here in central Mexico, a region long known for separatist tendencies.

But the greatest disappointment of his 16 months as Patriarch, he said, were the "growing separatist tendencies" in the church as in the state.

Despite the attempts of the Odrysian kings to bolster the central power, the separatist tendencies were very strong.