31.   In recent months, the separatist movement has been sapped by factional fights and by dwindling electoral popularity.

32.   In recent days, violence has increased at campaign stops, as well as in Casamance, the southern region that harbors a separatist movement.

33.   In Spain this week the leader of the main opposition party narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Basque separatist movement.

34.   In the past, a strong separatist movement has forced the federal government to channel a disproportionate amount of aid and attention to Quebec.

35.   Initially, the end of the cold war gave fresh life to dormant separatist movements.

36.   Ironically, perhaps, the growing assertiveness among Canadian Indians has been galvanized by the Quebec separatist movement.

37.   Just as the city has declined economically in last two decades, with the separatist movement ascendant, so too has the team.

38.   Large numbers of the troops are also stationed in restive Tibet and in the western region of Xinjiang, to help fight a separatist movement of Uighur Muslims.

39.   Law enforcement authorities and researchers who study the separatist movement have long warned that the Republic of Texas carried the threat of violence.

40.   Milosevic described Rugova and his separatist movement as pawns of Western powers bent on destroying Yugoslavia, of which Serbia is the larger of two remaining republics.