Sentence examples for supported secession from inspiring English sources

In the city of Knoxville, however, half the citizens supported secession.

Confederate military authorities viewed the loyalties of all East Tennesseans with suspicion, even those who supported secession from the beginning.

According to their results, 90percentt of voters supported secession — which Catalonia's regional Parliament used as the basis for declaring independence.

(She cites the 18 percent in the poll who supported secession — which she points out is "still a tidy number;... you're talking way over four million people" — but not the 75 percent who opposed it, a somewhat tidier number).

Rather, it stemmed from an amalgam of class resentment against the slave owners and tenant farmers who had supported secession; a deeply engrained rural suspicion of urban places; and a widespread feeling that the wealthy were threatening hard-working common people.

The electoral commission said 92% of the 3.3 million Kurds and non-Kurds who cast their ballots supported secession.

Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of supporting secession by Tibet.

Serbia is pressing to join the E.U. and has little to gain by supporting secession.

1980 Henry C. Burnett Democrat of Kentucky Expelled for open rebellion against the government and supporting secession.

Southerners are expected to overwhelmingly support secession in the vote, which begins on Jan . 9

Blessing Scotland's secession and reentry could have been construed as supporting secession movements in his own country.