Example sentences for: breakaway

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

  • The latter, however, isn't a country, but--as its ever-present Homeric epithet indicates--a "breakaway republic" of Russia.

  • Reflecting suspicions that the bomb was set by the "Real IRA," a breakaway branch of the IRA (the initial telephone warning was made by a caller using one of that group's code words, though official spokesmen denied responsibility Sunday), Ulster Unionist Party leader and Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble told the London Sunday Times that "this bomb would not have been made or detonated if Sinn Fein had handed over its explosives and weapons."

  • The goal of swaraj (self-rule), proclaimed in 1906, was seen by a moderate Left Center group as government within the British Empire, and by a breakaway revolutionary Extreme Left group as complete independence.

  • Regarding Omagh, Britain's Sunday People said that last year's bombing by the splinter group Real IRA could easily have derailed the peace process, but "the desire for peace was too strong for one breakaway IRA group to torpedo it.

  • Zhu stressed that China expects the same theory of nonintervention to apply to the situation in Taiwan, which Beijing views as a breakaway province that must ultimately be returned to Beijing's control.


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