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18 examples of Northerners in a sentence

Shakespeare wrote for the accent and the pronunciation just as he did for northerners in other plays.
Much is made of the "warship as a microcosm of British Society"theme,and the crew largely comprises of the usual cheery cockneys,canny northerners etc.without whom no war can be fought.They spend most of their time on board smoking,moaning about Lord Haw Haw and getting blown up.
Ordinary northerners still believe that President Goodluck Jonathan, who hails from the Niger Delta in the south, cheated their hero, Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general and former head of state, in last April’s elections.
More than 800 northerners died as enraged youths took to the streets in protest.
About four million northerners were denied political participation or land ownership on the grounds that they were descendants of migrants from neighboring countries.
Southern Sunnis have been marginalized since a 1994 civil war that left northerners in control of most of the country's political institutions.
The northerners are angry that Jonathan, a southerner, beat them to the presidency last year, and they see the sect as a useful instrument with which to intimidate him into ceding the office in 2015.
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).
Moreover, the northerners who “settled” in Abyei following the assault should be seen as complicit in the regime’s crimes rather than as peaceful civilians building a community.
But Obasanjo is a passionate advocate of unitary government and counts many influential northerners as personal friends.
Anti-immigrant prejudices and clichés about tight-fisted northerners and lazy southerners proliferate.
And that means that German leaders must portray the crisis not as a morality play pitting lazy, profligate southerners against hard-working, frugal northerners, but as a crisis of interdependence in an economic (and nascent political) union.
But Gbagbo refused to denounce the tribal/religious chauvinism that excluded Ouattara and millions of Ivoirian northerners from full citizenship rights.
But resentment of northerners’ perceived dominance of national politics runs deep in the south, particularly in the Niger Delta, where 50 years of uncontrolled oil production has resulted in polluted farmlands and deepening poverty.
The powers of the Nigerian presidency are extensive, and Jonathan’s handlers have been dropping loud hints that they will deploy them to whip the governors – including the northerners – into line.
Conservative northerners also view Buhari, an ascetic politician popular with the region’s poor, with unease.
Long before COVID-19 appeared, northern Europeans feared that indebted southerners were looking for excuses to lay their hands on the northerners’ savings.
The last flare-up of populism before now was in the 1960s, when the southern politician and racist demagogue George Wallace sought to persuade northerners to support his candidacy for the presidency by claiming that the federal bureaucracy (“big government”) was responsible for all of America’s problems.