0 to become independent of a country or area of government:
1 to decide not to continue to be part of a larger group or organization:
Even less acceptable was the possibility that districts could later secede from the kingdom by opting out from the charter.
Why do some ethnic regions fight fiercely to secede while others are quite content to remain part of the very same country?
In this article attention is focused exclusively on the non-southern states; the eleven states that seceded after the 1860 election are omitted from the analysis.
Their fortunes took a downturn in the mid-1990s, when some of them rightly or wrongly came to be seen as instigators of the movement to secede from the north.
I would, however, take issue with the implicit assumption that de facto states are more effective than the states from which they are attempting to secede.
Ripley proposed to secede from ' ' the pressure of our competitive institutions ' ' by creating an autonomous commune.
The right to self-determination is seen as granting indigenous peoples internal self-determination, the right to determine their future within the existing nation-states, not the right to secede from existing nation-states.
Surprisingly, the analysis found no support for arguments that the propensity to secede hinges on the upward mobility of ethnic groups in the political centre (most-favoured-lord status).
