Get to know Secession better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like separation or school.
Secession in a sentence
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Secession meaning
The act of seceding.
Synonyms of Secession
Using Secession
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of seceding.
- Useful related words include: separation, sezession, school, artistic movement.
- In the example corpus, secession often appears in combinations such as: the secession, of secession, secession of.
Context around Secession
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Secession
- In this selection, "secession" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, complete, passed, anti, movement, ordinances and efforts stand out and add context to how "secession" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the secession movement the and calls for secession are spreading. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "secession" sits close to words such as adidas, analyse and appalled, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with secession
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Calls for secession are spreading to individual states. (8 words)
I’m 27,768,113th in line of secession for the presidency, so what your step. (16 words)
Unilateral secession against majority rule is justified if the group allows secession of any other group within its territory. (19 words)
Court filings revealed that even before Nijjar’s killing in Canada, U.S. law enforcement officials had become aware of a plot against activists who were advocating for the secession from India of the northern Punjab state, where Sikhs are a majority. (42 words)
Turning Point USA’s suggests Democrats are provoking the right into “violence,” PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager warns that the U.S. is “already in a civil war” and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro suggested secession more than two years ago. (42 words)
In the meantime, the MSP for Edinburgh Eastern says that as first minister she would focus on running the Scottish government, with work on preparing for secession devolved to an Independence Convention and an Independence Commission. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Secession and tariffs The Morrill Tariff and the secession movement The Morrill tariff was adopted against the backdrop of the secession movement, and provided an issue for secessionist agitation in some southern states.
Yes, complete secession right down to the local level would be perfect, but building walls, and disallowing movement would destroy the idea of freedom upon which secession is key.
After intense debates and statewide votes, seven Deep South cotton states passed secession ordinances by February 1861 (before Abraham Lincoln took office as president), while secession efforts failed in the other eight slave states.
However, the Party eliminated the right to secession in later years, and had anti-secession clause written into the Constitution before and after the founding the People's Republic of China.
Rather than contributing to secession, Marc-William Palen notes how the tariff was only able to pass through Congress following the secession of Southern states.
Secession, therefore, did not take place because the Morrill tariff had gone through Congress, but, at most, the Morrill tariff went through Congress because secession had taken place.
Unilateral secession against majority rule is justified if the group allows secession of any other group within its territory.
As was confirmed in November, the aspects of international law that provide pathways to secession to colonised or oppressed nations do not apply to Scotland.
Court filings revealed that even before Nijjar’s killing in Canada, U.S. law enforcement officials had become aware of a plot against activists who were advocating for the secession from India of the northern Punjab state, where Sikhs are a majority.
I’m 27,768,113th in line of secession for the presidency, so what your step.
In 1998 and 1999, this led to a guerrilla war in which the Albanian majority in Kosovo wanted to fight secession from Serbia.
In seeking the court order, the government also sought to ban actions that use the song to incite others to commit secession and insult the national anthem, including online.
Internal insurgency backed by cross-border terrorism was matched by a massive global campaign to mobilise international support for Kashmir’s secession from India.
In the meantime, the MSP for Edinburgh Eastern says that as first minister she would focus on running the Scottish government, with work on preparing for secession devolved to an Independence Convention and an Independence Commission.
Recently, she outdid herself, doubling down on a previous reckless call for red and blue states to “divorce”, meaning of course, secession.
Their standards stipulated that secession was not rebellion, enslaved people had been treated well and that the “War Between the States” was not fought over slavery.
Turning Point USA’s suggests Democrats are provoking the right into “violence,” PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager warns that the U.S. is “already in a civil war” and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro suggested secession more than two years ago.
While the idea of secession “has been consigned to the political loony bin since the Civil War,” the idea is increasingly respectable, Buckley asserts.
Calls for secession are spreading to individual states.
Eminent Nigerians and senior lawyers have blamed injustice and mismanagement of public resources as the reason for secession agitation.
Common combinations with secession
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the secession 31×
- of secession 30×
- secession of 23×
- for secession 21×
- secession from 18×
- secession and 17×
- secession was 6×
- vienna secession 6×
- secession is 5×
- to secession 5×