secession

IPA: sɪsˈɛʃʌn

Examples of "secession" in Sentences

In Quebec, real interest in secession is probably at an all-time low.
Any Governor that would talk about the possibility of secession from the union is ....
You know people as a True Texan myself ... that stupid remark about 'secession' is becoming an old and tired joke.
Asked by Hannity why he used the term "secession" during a 2009 Austin tea party rally, Perry said the incident never happened.
The South's rejoining the Union at the point of a bayonet in the late 1860s didn't prove secession is "not an option" or unlawful.
The Republican victory in that election resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861.
Philip Phillips (I couldn't make this up), a Jewish congressman from Alabama, was actually a moderate who opposed the South's secession from the Union, while his wife was obviously a fire-breathing Rebel.
Meanwhile, there are the howling voices of the women and children of these regions as they are torn between the men they love, their husbands, sons, fathers, brothers and next of kin, who are dying as a result of a tug of lethal war fought in the name of secession versus union.