Example Sentences

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There is no danger that America’s poor neighborhoods will secede from the United States.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2014

January 25, 2010 7:42 am Link Is it true that New Orleans will secede from the US and become a departement of Haiti, merely to improve its access to reconstruction aid?

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2010

If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

The slaveholding States will secede, and what then?

From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various

The Priests and Nobles will secede, the nation will remain in place, and, with the King, will do its own business.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson