secession 的定义
- an act or instance of seceding.
- U.S. History. the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860–61, which brought on the Civil War.
- Fine Arts. a style of art in Germany and Austria concurrent with and related to Art Nouveau.
secession 近义词
withdrawal
更多secession例句
- The chairman of the Texas GOP seriously suggested secession when the last, desperate legal challenges to the election failed.
- Channeling Douglas’s condemnation of secession, McConnell told listeners that “public doubt alone” could not “justify a radical break when that doubt was incited without evidence.”
- The closest parallel is probably the Southern “Fire-Eaters” who were rabid advocates of enslavement and secession before the Civil War.
- Afterward, Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West declared that “law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the Constitution” — a seeming endorsement of secession.
- America is polarized with a political culture growing more toxic by the day, but the realities of secession would be too much to bear.
- In the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Plains, and Far West, secession sympathizers top out at 22 percent of the population.
- But very few of us have imagined that they could fuel a generalized positive view of secession.
- The larger the pro-secession minority becomes, the more the majority opposed to secession will believe that Hobbes was right.
- According to Reuters, current Democrat support for secession is hovering around 20 percent.
- And here in America, the spirit of secession is gaining strength too.
- Even as late as April 4, the Richmond convention had rejected secession by a vote of two to one.
- On February 13, 1861, a special state convention was held in Richmond to discuss the possibility of secession.
- On May 4, a large majority of the Virginia citizens voted their approval of secession.
- But, even at that time, which was within six weeks of election day, the idea of secession did not prevail.
- Gentlemen, Secession is played out—the dog is dead—the child is born, and his name is Jeff.