1.   A new outbreak of ethnic separatism might be fomented there if Russians considered it desirable.

2.   A war in Kosovo that triggers ethnic Albanian separatism and instability in Albania could easily spread to these other unstable countries.

3.   But that spirit could easily give way to renewed ethnic separatism.

4.   What the Vietnamese Communist Party fears is obviously not personal or familial piety but anything that could become a rival political base or a nucleus of ethnic separatism.

5.   A host of sanctions could follow to isolate communities that insist on ethnic separatism.

6.   Both Macedonia and Yugoslavia have been faced with ethnic Albanian separatism.

7.   China readied new laws Thursday to back longstanding campaigns to squelch dissent, ethnic separatism and subversion of the communist state through Western democratic ideals.

8.   Even before final results were in, foreign envoys were pressing Izetbegovic to start working on the institutions meant to steer the country away from war and ethnic separatism.

9.   On Thursday, senior Chinese officials unveiled a revised criminal law and a new national defense law to provide legal backing for ongoing crackdowns against ethnic separatism.

10.   The charge was causing national hatred based on ethnic separatism.