Sentence examples for when secession from inspiring English sources

Yet when secession came, Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America.

It is difficult to know when a state has failed in its responsibility to protect its people, particularly when secession is involved.

Although he was chairman of the Democratic national convention at Charleston, S.C. (1860), when secession came he returned to Washington and supported President Abraham Lincoln.

Like many in northern Mississippi, he was a unionist, but when secession came he realized which way his allegiances had to shift.

This rule should be taken together with the late John Rawls's reminder that there is no right to secede when secession entails subjugating another people.

Butter that cost 20 cents a pound when secession was declared commanded seven times as much a year later — and up to 100 times as much in some locales, if it was available at all, during the last year of the war.

The novel culminates in the Biafra war of 1967-70, when Igbo secession was crushed.

He welded the ANC into an electoral force, and worked to keep dissident Zulus on board when Natal secession briefly threatened.

But drought and political instability in Kansas rendered Ewing's land speculations unprofitable, leaving him in debt and reliant on income from his law practice when the secession crisis came.

Remember when Staten Islanders pursued secession?

But both are willing hostages of Russia, which helped them fight their wars of secession when the Soviet Union collapsed, and has given them military and diplomatic support ever since.