What's the difference between decession and secession?
Decession
Definition:
(n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.
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Secession
Definition:
(n.) The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.
(n.) The withdrawal of a State from the national Union.
Example Sentences:
(1) Barra has long been considered an ‘off world’ for Rio’s emerging upper-middle classes, and there was even a secession attempt in the 1980s,” says Gaffney.
(2) Bangladesh is the original "basket case", a term coined by Henry Kissinger , the US secretary of state, to describe the country immediately after its violent secession from Pakistan in 1971 .
(3) But constitutions are texts that exist to serve a particular moment in history and certain circumstances.” Romeva then hinted that even if the Spanish courts ruled against independence, it would not prevent the push for secession.
(4) Breakaway MNLF guerrillas led by its commander Nur Misuari have issued new secession threats from their remaining strongholds such as southern Jolo island, a few hours by boat from Zamboanga city.
(5) The competition between the two men sharpened after the referendum of 2011 that led to South Sudan’s secession from Sudan.
(6) But the lure of secession, of exit strategies from the euro or even the EU, remains strong for a reason.
(7) What makes a secessionist claim successful in the eyes of the international community – indeed, in the eyes of the people fighting for secession – is the existence of a historical grievance over territory.
(8) Spain's prime minister and the secession-minded leader of Catalonia have begun talks amid a bitter dispute over the wealthy north-eastern region's plans for a referendum on independence in November.
(9) As this week's protests and moves towards Catalan secession have shown, Spain's social and political fabric cannot cope with much more pain.
(10) Scotland factor: if Cameron again came just short after a yes vote, the secession of Scottish MPs in (probably) 2016 could well lend him a majority by changing the Commons arithmetic in his favour, although whether he could survive until the election in these circumstances is a moot point.
(11) Senior officers had told him that they were seeking a "final solution", determined "to cleanse east Pakistan once and for all of the threat of secession, even if it means killing 2 million people and ruling the province as a colony for 30 years."
(12) We have Silicon Valley-types having the smug gall to call for a secession of California after Trump’s win, despite tech companies, by their sheer inactivity, contributing to his win.
(13) With the secession of South Sudan in 2011 , the government lost most of its oil fields and its biggest source of government revenue and foreign exchange.
(14) Apart from the political parties, there are the tribes, the southern movement (which has been demanding secession) and the Houthis in the north who have their own grievances.
(15) But if it can – and that's a big if – the risk of secession will be worth taking.
(16) Above all else, the Brexit vote has furnished the Scottish nationalists with the ideal grounds for a further push for secession.
(17) Weir Group has become the latest pillar of the Scottish business establishment to raise concerns over the independence debate after backing SSE's warning that talk of secession is creating uncertainty for companies.
(18) On 1 January 1993, the people of what became the Czech Republic were divorced from their brethren in Slovakia (to Havel's real distress, though there was nothing more he could have done to stop the secession).
(19) Tribal conflict has worsened the situation, killing more than 1,600 people in Jonglei since South Sudan's secession.
(20) Quebec has held two referendums on secession, the second of which, in 1995, was voted down by a margin of less than 1%.