Northerner
in example sentence
A majority of commentators west of the Rhine and south of the Alps have admonished Hoekstra as a heartless
northerner
for whom solidarity is meaningless.
More example sentences with word northerner
The split within the PDP began in 2010, when President Umaru Yar’Adua, a Muslim northerner, died after only three years in office, and Jonathan, an ethnic Ijaw from the south and Yar’Adua’s deputy, took his place.
Northern PDP leaders complained that Yar’Adua’s predecessor, a Christian southerner, had ruled Nigeria for eight years and that it was only fair that a
northerner
should hold power.
Many northerners resent that the presidency was returned to a southerner after only one term with a
northerner
in office (an informal agreement mandates that the presidency should alternate between north and south every two terms).
Yar’Adua had completed only three years of his first four-year term when he died, and it was expected that all southerners, including Jonathan, would unite behind another
northerner
for next year’s vote.
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