(n.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.
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.
Seeder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Groups of 5-24 chicks in isolators were exposed to C. jejuni-contaminated water or colonized seeder chicks.
(2) Results of the examination of caecal contents from untreated control birds indicated that the challenge organism was successfully established in contact chicks via the seeder birds.
(3) Each group was challenged with Salmonella infantis through contact with infected seeder birds and numbers of salmonellae in the caecal contents were determined weekly.
(4) Headley could have been sentenced to death if convicted of the most serious charges – conspiracy to bomb public places in India and six counts of murdering US nationals in India – but Seeder said the death sentence was "off the table" if Headley continued to co-operate.
(5) A seeder bird technique was used to challenge experimental and control birds with Campylobacter jejuni biotype 2 (broiler origin).
(6) Lungworm-infected seeder calves were used on two 1.41 ha paddocks to ensure that groups of 11 susceptible trial calves would be exposed to heavy early season challenge with Dictyocaulus viviparus.
(7) These seeders are also hand held making them suitable for use in smaller fields.
(8) A total of 18 deaths occurred including 13 untreated contact birds, 3 Broilact-treated contact birds and 2 seeder birds.
(9) The individual-bird challenge test system appeared to yield a more precise measurement of protection than the seeder-bird system and indicated that trypticase soy broth is as effective as VL broth for anaerobic culture of the protective microflora.
(10) In each of the individual trials, birds exposed to coccidiosis via the feed had significantly (P is less than 0.5) higher incidence of light to severe histological lesions that those exposed via "seeder birds" or contaminated litter.
(11) Contamination of the pasture was established by experimentally infected seeder calves.
(12) The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre has developed a low-till seeder, ideal because soil scientists advocate not breaking the structure of the soil at the top as a way to improve water retention and reduce erosion.
(13) Lungworm-infected seeder calves were used on four 1.41 ha paddocks to ensure that groups of 11 calves would be exposed to a heavy challenge with Dictyocaulus viviparus.
(14) For her part, Ross describes herself as "a seeder, a builder" and seems to delight in her role as a patron of the arts, someone who can seek out talented individuals and make them an offer they can't refuse.
(15) Three seeder birds were placed in each group of 60 birds.
(16) "He has provided significant help to the United States and aided other countries," said Seeder.
(17) Statistical analysis with direct seeding (seeder birds; severe coccidial exposure) showed that feed levels of 84 and 102 ppm gave maximal improvement of weight gain and 4-week feed conversion, respectively.
(18) His attorney, Robert Seeder, said after the hearing that Headley's decision to talk was "a manifestation and example of his regret and remorse" and was not based solely on the fact he would avoid a possible death sentence.
(19) Randomly selected boxes of treated and untreated (control) chicks were taken to the laboratory and challenged with either Salmonella infantis or Salmonella enteritidis (PT4) using the seeder bird technique.
(20) Contamination of pens with Eimeria meleagrimitis, E. adenoeides, and E. gallopavonis was accomplished by the infected seeder bird technique.