(v. i.) To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
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.
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%.