Sentence examples for secession of which from inspiring English sources

Her father, Gustav, and his wife, Therese, along with his brother Ferdinand and Ferdinand's wife, Adele, were close to the artists of the Vienna secession of which Klimt was a founder in 1897.

In 1971, they fought over the secession of East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh.

Months ago, the secession of Scotland, which threatened to break up the foundations of the state, was narrowly avoided; it remains an ongoing threat.

Asked how he pleaded to those charges, he refused to answer, but said, "It is absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia, which provoked a civil war conflict and the suffering of the civilian population".

Quebec has held two referendums on secession, the second of which, in 1995, was voted down by a margin of less than 1%.

In the years that followed he became increasingly involved in the ferment that led to the foundation of the Vienna Secession in May 1897, of which he became the president.

In 1861, White voted for Union candidates to serve as delegates from Hampshire County in the Virginia secession convention, one of which was his son-in-law Colonel E. M. Armstrong.

After hours of debate, they issued the 158-word "Ordinance of Secession," which repealed the consent of South Carolina to the Constitution and declared the state to be an independent country.

The first item was ratification of an ordinance of secession, which proceeded in short order.

Bangladesh was part of Pakistan until the nine-month war of secession, which left up to three million people dead.

The argument that Lee was moved to take up arms in defense of slavery according to the abstract principle of "states' rights" is belied by Virginia's 1861 Ordinance of Secession, which clearly states that its grievance lies with "the Federal Government having perverted [its] powers, not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slaveholding states".