(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.
Separatist
Definition:
(n.) One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.
Example Sentences:
(1) More likely is that the constitutional court would use its recently beefed-up powers to deal with separatists if they were to assume powers that the constitution does not allow them.
(2) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(3) An estimated 1,000 people from Odessa have joined separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine.
(4) A preliminary agreement with the two main separatist groups was signed in June.
(5) Who wants to be seen with that narrow, ungenerous and (to the rest of Canada) irritating thing, a separatist?
(6) In Catalonia the outspoken local politician is derided as a feeble sellout for opposing total independence; in the rest of Spain he is damned as a rabid separatist for wanting a bit more self-governance.
(7) Of course, I am very worried about them.” Separately, at least three people were killed in clashes in the south-western city of Odessa, which has largely resisted the domino effect of pro-Russian separatists taking over Ukrainian cities in the east.
(8) He said the Ukrainian army did not have such missiles in the area, and said none had been seized by separatist fighters in recent weeks.
(9) Speaking in Manila, Obama said the goal of the new round of sanctions was to change the Russian calculation in its alleged sponsorship of separatists in Ukraine.
(10) When he last travelled to Kiev, Ukrainian border guards stopped him for six hours at the border and accused him of being a separatist, underlining the difficulties faced by those who support Ukraine and decide to stay in Crimea.
(11) By now, those described, not entirely accurately, as “pro-Russian separatists” largely comprise desperate bitter-enders, who increasingly fear – with justification – that Moscow has hung them out to dry.
(12) The agreement between Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes), a coalition of the centre-right Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) party and leftist Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC) party, and the far-left minority partner Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) gives the separatist bloc a slim majority in the 135-seat Catalan parliament.
(13) Ukraine’s government and Russian separatists have blamed each other for the crash.
(14) You have to protect the country against the separatist movements, against the Uighurs or the Tibetans, I can understand not doing that subject.
(15) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
(16) One short-notice exercise was used to move Russian forces to annex Crimea in February 2014 and others were employed to support separatists in eastern Ukraine and to stage a military build-up on Ukraine’s border.
(17) He was in the separatist movement from 2005 to 2008, and recently completed the government programme.
(18) Shops, businesses and schools have remained closed because of the security lockdown and protest strikes called by separatists, who challenge India’s sovereignty.
(19) There are fears that, with Yanukovych losing control of the west of the country and Kiev, Russia may attempt to promote separatist movements in Crimea, which is largely ethnically Russian.
(20) It would be a war crime under international law if separatists had deliberately targeted a civilian plane.