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• v  withdraw from an organization or communion

• Will some family named Knezevic decide it's time to secede from northern Kosovo? Will Bob, the Kenezvics' 17-year-old son who doesn't really talk to anyone at holiday dinners .
• Later, answering news reporters' questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why .
• If the constitution gives the republics the right to secede, why can't Kosovo secede? Kosovo wasn't a republic as defined by the old Yugoslavian constitution .

• splinter
• break away

News & Articles

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• Rosslyn Farms appeals denial of its petition to secede
  Residents aren't giving up their attempt to secede from the Carlynton School District and join Chartiers Valley.
  June 13, 2013 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Rosslyn Farms appeals denial of its petition to secede
  Residents aren't giving up their attempt to secede from the Carlynton School District and join Chartiers Valley.
  June 13, 2013 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Northern Colorado Counties May Secede from Colorado Over Guns, Renewable Energy
  Counties in Northern Colorado are considering seceding from the state in order to form their own state. According to Weld County, Colorado spokesperson Jennifer Finch, Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma and Kit Carson counties might secede to form the state of North Colorado. The plan was discussed at the Colorado Counties Inc. conference earlier this week, notes the ...
  June 12, 2013 - Opposing Views

Quotes

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• Antonin Scalia in Reuters
  Only Scalia replied: "I cannot imagine that such a question could ever reach the Supreme Court. To begin with, the answer is clear. If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede."
• Richard Holbrooke in Hürriyet
  His long-term policy seems clear: to place his Serb entity, Republika Srpska, in a position to secede if the opportunity arises,Ashdown and Holbrooke warned, adding that Dodik has "in two years, reversed much of the real progress in Bosnia...