Sentences with word «secede»

Worse still, when political opponents saw the calisthenics training sessions of the pupils in 2012, they immediately alleged that Aregbesola was training the youths as armed militias, who would be used to assist his state in seceding from Nigeria!

Among the highlights was the panel on segregation with Hechinger's Emmanuel Felton, who wrote about school districts seceding in Jefferson County in Birmingham, AL. «We wanted to zoom in on where segregation was getting worse the most rapidly,» said Felton.

The question of secession was resolved as a practical matter by the American Civil War, and as a matter of law by the Supreme Court decision Texas v. White, in which it was ruled that states can not unilaterally secede from the Union and did not do so during the Civil War.

For quite understandable reasons, much of the debate about independence for Scotland has so far focused on the economic consequences of seceding from the UK.

For the revolutionaries of 1776 were not seceding at all, because they were not justifying their behavior as lawful.

Under the bill, seceding districts would affiliate with a new statewide «independent school district» under the supervision of the state board of education.

It was in favor of Arkansas seceding from the Union.

The Scotland Act 1998 could be amended to legally recognise what is an existing constitutional fact: that the Scottish people have constituent power, that they possess the capacity to create a sovereign state by seceding from the United Kingdom.

For many years now Catalonia has been attempting to peacefully secede from Spain through a binding referendum.

McLean argued that there would be nothing to prevent the UK from adopting a written constitution if Scotland secedes.

The UK's biggest defence contractor, BAE systems, is set to manufacture 13 warships for the Royal Navy in Scotland starting in 2016, although the company has not commented on what it would do if the country secedes.

Texas just seceded.

Maybe more if Texas secedes from the union.

Franklin County seceded from Tennessee when it thought the state was too slow leaving the Union.

As the MCU expanded, the goal became to tell different and (relatively) smaller stories, and at their best, those stories make an argument for seceding from the Union entirely.

Can my county and the others in Southern California secede from the state and form our own state of South California?

As these views for the most part are from the folks down south, I think it would be a great idea if they all gathered in say Texas where they can celebrate their nutty views until the cows come home and even secede like good ol govenor Perry has suggested.

Sudan — where northern Christians experienced greater vulnerability after southern Sudan seceded in a July referendum, and where Christians were targeted amid isolated military conflicts — jumped 19 places last year from its 2010 ranking of 35th to 16th.

Think Tim McVeigh, or Ricky Rubio, or some Texas judge who wants to secede because a white - black man is President.

Thinking about seceding from the Union?

A Cameroonian cryptocurrency trader, Paul Fonlon, has urged the Ambazonia Secessionist Movement to adopt bitcoin as their national currency when they eventually secede from Cameroon.

A small group of members seceded from the FSBA in 2015 to form the Florida Coalition of School Board Members (FCSBM).

Klein seceded from the rest of the chamber's Democrats in 2011, shortly after Republicans won back control of the Senate after a two - year hiatus.

In school, we were taught the now - discredited idea that the South seceded for states» rights, not because of slavery.

For example, the recent Scottish referendum on seceding from the UK.

It was as though the 1.6 M sq. ft. Anaheim Convention Center had temporarily seceded from the USA to form its own nation state populated with CPG enthusiasts bartering food.

«Having everyone collaborating in a single project is ideal, but sometimes there are genuine differences of opinion, and network effects are not enough to keep everybody together, so a group secedes.»

Any move by Catalan separatists in the region's parliament to unilaterally secede seemed likely to spark a severe economic crisis, not least because it could threaten the region's membership of the EU and eurozone.

The unpopularity of the movement led to a split among the Qadianis when a group called the Lahoris seceded under the leadership of Maulana Muhammad Ali and Khwaja Kamaluddin.

The actions of David's son Solomon led to the tragic division of the monarchy with the original tribes seceding from the union with Judah and the Davidic monarchy.

No Texan I know wants to actually secede.

The group patronized outstanding preachers like Bernard Ochino and Peter Martyr Vermigli who later seceded to Protestantism, and was responsible for the distribution of tens of thousands of copies of the notorious tract Beneficio di Cristo, written by a Cassinese protégé of Pole's, and which incorporated without acknowledgment swathes from the first version of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.

Many in the Dutch Reformed Church were critical of the réveil, and partly as a result, some of the most earnest supporters of the réveil seceded and formed the Christian Reformed Church.

Sixteen years divorced from the old Southern Conference, the ACC — now to some extent a league of dogwoody schools slowly seceding from the South — is gradually abandoning the big - time football scene, too.

France held on to its colonies too long; Belgium treated its sole colony as giant personal plantation of the king; Spain wasn't democratic at the time that its colonies seceded so the new countries had nothing to start with; Germany was pulled out of the game by 1918; Tsarist Russia annexed territory it didn't necessarily have the competency to administer; and the US offloaded their regional interests to the private sector like United Fruit Co..

However, it would be in principle be possible for the number of nations to increase in future, either by new nations joining (e.g. Guernsey, The Isle of Man), or by portions of existing nations seceding (e.g. the North of England).

Some follow military ways e.g. Bangladesh seceding from Pakistan and becoming an independent country.

The office of Governor Bobby Jindal indicated Wednesday afternoon it was against a petition for Louisiana to secede posted on the White House website.

They were about to issue their 15th report since seceding from the troubled Democratic conference in January.

In 1873, the Town of Kingsbridge seceded from Yonkers.

In 1846, a new town, West Farms, was created by secession from Westchester; in turn, in 1855, the Town of Morrisania seceded from West Farms.

But see the French plebiscite approving the Evian accord and letting Algeria secede; however, this merely ratified the agreement that the government had already negotiated and signed.

So, if they were able to successfully secede, how significantly would the Federal representation be affected?

«Again, after the counter coup in 1966, the North threatened to secede until they were assured that power is now in their hands.

Even though Trump - voting states wouldn't want to secede during Trump's Presidency, they may find it useful to have a path to secession the next time someone they don't like is elected.

ALBANY — The most prominent elements of the Working Families Party spent Friday at war with one another, with labor leaders hoping to broker a deal to endorse Governor Andrew Cuomo threatening to formally, publicly secede, and activists digging in around the candidacy of Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout.