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Secede meaning
To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. | To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
Example sentences (20)
The Serbian Assembly declared "sovereignty and autonomy of the Serb people in Croatia". citation Their position was that if Croatia could secede from Yugoslavia, then the Serbs could secede from Croatia.
After a war in the late 1980s and early 90s, when the region’s majority Armenian population sought to secede from the newly independent country of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh was hotly contested by the two former Soviet republics.
Given that self-described had provided the muscle behind the coup and that the new regime was explicitly anti-Russian – going so far as to ban Russian from public discourse – the persecuted residents of the Donbas had every right to secede.
It joined the list of to secede from the Commonwealth and as with most others, the move stemmed from a dispute with local authorities.
Of course, it is not at all sure that everyone will secede!
West Virginia's breakaway was approved without the consent of Virginia's legislature, since the rebel state had voted to secede in 1861.
At this point, I'm almost fine with letting them secede, now that we can't dump our trash there anymore.
If the United Kingdom is to survive, it will have to change fundamentally, so that does not secede and our regions can once again feel part of it.
Kentucky plantation owner, he left the US Army when Kentucky refused to secede and joined Confederate forces in Texas.
The separatists represent English-speakers who want to secede from the rest of Cameroon and its French-speaking majority.
The separatists want Baluchistan to secede, a nightmare scenario for Pakistan that evokes the national trauma of losing East Pakistan, which fought a bloody war for independence and became Bangladesh in 1971.
The state has charged 29 out of the 51 persons who are being held over attempts to secede from Ghana with treason felony.
As the South prepared to secede, Buchanan told Congress that while he believed secession was illegal, the Federal Government had no power to stop it.
But Kenney said that since the cancellations of several pipelines, the delays to the Trans Mountain project, and now Bill C-69, support for Alberta to secede has more than doubled.
Kenney says a recent poll suggests half of Albertans are prepared to secede from Canada.
Russia argues that Crimeans voted to secede from Ukraine, despite pursuing an armed takeover of the peninsula at the same time.
Sarah Palin’s husband Todd, who thinks Alaska should secede from the Union, secedes from his own.
So for example, Chesterton as an historian agreed that the British American Colonies could and should secede and self-govern, and in his own day he had strong sympathies with the Southern Irish cause.
The constitution gives the regions the right to secede.
The members of the United Democratic Party (UDP) are part of a group that unsuccessfully attempted to secede Zambezi (formerly Caprivi) region from Namibia on 2 August 1999.