What's the difference between receding and seceding?
Receding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recede
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
(2) If the role of surgery has receded somewhat in other areas of gynaecological cancer, the reverse would seem to be true in ovarian cancer.
(3) Here's the details: • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS FRENCH DEFICIT AT 4.1% OF GDP IN 2013, 3.8% IN 2014, 3.7% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS ITALIAN DEFICIT AT 3.0% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.7% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS SPANISH DEFICIT AT 6.8% OF GDP IN 2013, 5.9% IN 2014, 6.6% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS GREEK DEFICIT AT 13.5% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.0% IN 2014, 1.1% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS PORTUGUESE DEFICIT AT 5.9% OF GDP IN 2013, 4.0% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS CYPRUS DEFICIT AT 8.3% OF GDP IN 2013, 8.4% IN 2014, 6.3% IN 2015 Sony Kapoor of the ReDefine thinktank tweets that the forecasts show that European leaders should not be talking about the crisis being over, even though the risk of the euro breaking up has receded.
(4) Attacks provoked by glyceryl trinitrate appeared to begin when the vasodilatory effect of this substance was receding.
(5) Now is the time to help our neighbours in distress, listen to their stories, and remember them when the floodwaters recede.
(6) It’s time for governments, business and people the world over to respond and the most obvious place to start is by calling a halt to Shell’s reckless search for Arctic oil.” NSIDC is yet to provide a full analysis of this year’s melt, noting that there is a chance that changing wind patterns or low season melt could see the ice recede further.
(7) However, tuberculosis has not receded uniformly among all segments of the population.
(8) Increased activity persists in the high density lipoproteins after the lipemia recedes.
(9) We are up against a very strong king tide so some of the floodwater will take time to recede.” New Zealand prime minister Bill English addressed the situation on social media on Saturday.
(10) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.
(11) During the further course of treatment the symptoms receded under heparin and phenprocoumon over a period of 8 months, except for hemiparesis on the left side especially affecting the arm.
(12) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
(13) These glaciers are receding world-wide, in the Himalayas, Andes and Rocky Mountains.
(14) These are reciprocal schemes which in turn become progressively anonymous as they recede away from the face to face situation.
(15) The sensomotoric and speech symptoms receded only slightly.
(16) Lung function normalised during this treatment course, radiological findings and antibody titres receded.
(17) The concept of a regional solution has gradually receded further into the background.
(18) The chorea receded and disappeared as the patient became euthyroid.
(19) Addressing concerns over her health, Clinton told 60 Minutes that she still had some lingering effects from the concussion that led to her blood clot, but that the doctors had told her that they would recede.
(20) Responses including a cellular infiltrate in the anterior chamber, protein extravasation, and iris vessel dilatation became evident within six hours, peaked at 24 hours, and began to recede by 48 to 72 hours after the injection.
Seceding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secede
Example Sentences:
(1) The charities often secede from the deal later on, either because they don't get any referrals or because they're only given the "hard-to-reach" cases ( 15 charities pulled out of the work programme in the second half of last year for these reasons).
(2) Meanwhile, we are all too ready to see the faults of democracy, from an MP taking time out in the jungle to American states vowing to secede.
(3) It mostly conceded, though, that there was a sincere social experiment at the heart of it, a pressing need to secede from the straight world.
(4) Following the presidential election, more than 30 states created petitions to secede from the union – an almost impossible task.
(5) A Virginia resident since 1973, Miroy said: "If Virginia seceded tonight I'd be back here tomorrow with a gray uniform on."
(6) Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy , has rejected a request by the leader of Catalonia to approve a referendum that would allow the north-eastern region to decide whether to secede from the rest of the country.
(7) And the US, which pressed Khartoum hard to honour the 2005 comprehensive peace agreement and allow the south the secede, has cynically withheld previously dangled rewards, failing to lift economic sanctions and provide debt relief.
(8) The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, disputed the legitimacy of Sunday’s referendum in which Crimeans voted to secede from Ukraine .
(9) Days after the killing, images emerged of him posing next to a Confederate flag, a symbol of the part of the United States that seceded in response to the Union’s decision to make slavery illegal.
(10) José Manuel Lara, head of the Barcelona-based publishing group Planeta, threatened to move what is the world's sixth-largest publisher away from Catalonia if the region secedes from Spain.
(11) Jonathan said Boko Haram presents Nigeria's greatest security challenge since the 1967 Biafra civil war, when a three-year campaign by the Igbo people to secede from the country's 150 other tribes left a million dead.
(12) Catalan pro-independence campaigners, who are planning to rally in front of the regional parliament on Friday afternoon in support of the law, say the anti-independence vote in Scotland will have little effect on their push to secede from Spain.
(13) The referendum can have only one outcome: a vote to secede from Ukraine.
(14) London, the most global city in the world, would be more likely to secede from Ukip-land than accept Britain leaving Europe.
(15) Here’s a round-up of the latest developments: • The Russian president has has approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea following a referendum in the peninsula that overwhelmingly supported seceding from Ukraine.
(16) The country they love no longer exists, except in Ealing comedies – my favourite one of which is Passport to Pimlico (1949), in which plucky Londoners paradoxically demonstrate their Britishness by seceding from the British state.
(17) If you think inequality is a problem now, imagine a world where the rich can get richer all by themselves Meanwhile, robotic capital would enable elites to completely secede from society.
(18) His country is now in desperate economic trouble, however, after the oil-rich south seceded in 2011, and Bashir is wanted for war crimes by the international criminal court.
(19) José Manuel Lara, head of the Barcelona-based publishing group Planeta, threatened to move what is the world's sixth-largest publisher away from Catalonia if the region should secede from Spain.
(20) Perth’s outer suburbs are even more parochial than the rest of WA, a state so self-contained that it regularly threatens to secede.