Sentence examples for on secession from from inspiring English sources

The rebels there aim to hold a referendum on May 11 on secession from Ukraine, similar to one staged in March in Ukraine's Crimea region, which was seized and annexed by Russia in a move that overturned the post-Cold War diplomatic order.

In 1995, voters in Quebec narrowly rejected a referendum on secession from Canada.

They are far more concerned with their referendum on secession from the north, due early next year.

In May 1861 he was chairman of the Frankfort convention of border-state leaders that asked the South to reconsider its position on secession from the Union.

Correction: February 16, 2004, Monday An obituary on Wednesday about Claude Ryan, a former leader of the Quebec Liberal Party who helped defeat a referendum in 1980 on secession from Canada, referred imprecisely to a rule he later helped promulgate.

The deal provided for a cooling-off period of six years before a loosely geographically defined south would be given the chance to vote on secession from the north.

Mr Mollah's lawyers had appealed against their client's conviction by the ICT on February 5th on five crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's war of secession from Pakistan in 1971.

At noon on July 1, South Carolina will become the last state to remove the old symbol of secession from its seat of government.

They were committed during the country's war of secession from Pakistan, in 1971.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday, calling for secession from the north of the country.

Two years later, approximately 90% of Georgians took part in a referendum on independence, paving the way for secession from the Soviet Union in May 1991.