Example sentences for: anti-independence

How can you use “anti-independence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The general acknowledged that some of his troops might be allying themselves with violent anti-independence militia groups.

  • The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times front accounts of increased violence in East Timor by anti-independence militias.

  • Anti-independence militias in East Timor terrorized rural towns yesterday after voting showed that nearly 80 percent of East Timorese favor independence from Indonesia.

  • The gist of the Post and LAT pieces is of a long-oppressed people finally getting their say, while the NYT goes rather more postmodern, noting that "though the anti-independence militias have clearly had the upper hand in terror, the pro-independence forces, with 24 years of experience in both war and propaganda, have seized the role of well-intentioned victims."

  • The anti-independence forces, labeled "gangs" high up by the two Times (although the word is never used by the WP ), had by late Sunday set fire to numerous buildings in the territorial capital of Dili and shot "scores" of Timorese there and elsewhere on the island.


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