Sentence examples for act of secession from inspiring English sources

No wall or act of secession can halt these forces in their tracks.

Serbia, strongly supported by Russia has said that Kosovo's independence is an illegal act of secession and it will not recognise it.

It may have been all those things, but it was also a political act of secession that was meant to have consequences.

It is indeed possible that the occupiers of Ithome planned not only an act of secession but, in fact, an attack on the famously unravaged city of Sparta itself.

While each of 15 territories which once formed the Union became an internationally recognised country, Chechnya had no such luck; because it was legally part of the Russian republic, its independence bid was seen as an illegal act of secession.

The title to what may be called the Isthmian or canal zone, which, at the date of the act, was in the Republic of Colombia, passed by an act of secession to the newly formed Republic of Panama.

In 2003 plans to implement article 23 of the Basic Law – requiring the region to pass laws banning acts of "treason, secession, sedition and subversion" – were dropped after half a million took to the streets.

The law would prohibit acts of treason, secession, sedition and subversion against the Chinese government.

Those found guilty of acts of treason, secession, subversion or sedition could face life imprisonment.

Five years after Britain handed Hong Kong over to China, the Hong Kong government says it will enact a law prohibiting acts of treason, secession, sedition and subversion against the Chinese government.

We seem to be entering an age of secession.