| There really were only thirteen communicants in the parish when these had seceded. |
| Sections of the army mutinied and the mineral rich province of Katanga seceded. |
| Once these republics seceded, however, the legal status of minorities, such as the Serbs in Croatia, was undermined. |
| The mycologists, fungi experts, have virtually seceded from the plant kingdom and made their own rules. |
| If the South seceded, the European superpowers would have cooked, carved and devoured the weakened American eagle. |
| Before he had even taken the oath of office, several Southern states had seceded. |
