Jimbo wants his state to secede from the United States because a black man has been reelected president.
The most popular petition is for Texas to secede from the Union (109, 400 signatures at press time).
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Jimbo petitions for his apartment to secede from his building and serves the appropriate papers to the new super.
All this has left most Papuans at best distrustful of Jakarta and more often wanting to secede from Indonesia.
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It was western nations which had really started the war, by encouraging Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia to secede from Yugoslavia.
By all accounts, they will soon secede from the Arab, Islamic country and form an independent African, Christian and animist state.
Neither South Ossetia nor Abkhazia, the report says, had the right to secede from Georgia and Russia's recognition of their independence was illegal.
But the Sudanese now -- the southern Sudanese now have an option where they may be seeking to secede from all of Sudan.
On Sunday, the southern Sudanese began voting on a referendum to secede from the Republic of Sudan and establish their own sovereign nation.
There was no question about who would take the oath of office (except in those states that were ready to secede from the Union).
There was no question as to who should take the oath of office (except in those states that were ready to secede from the Union).
But when the religious parties in his coalition objected, Mr Netanyahu cravenly caved in, causing the biggest secular party, Kadima, to secede from his government.
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Jimbo petitions for his apartment building to secede from the town.
Though Chechnya, in late 1991, was the first North Caucasus republic to try to secede from Russia, an anti-Russian insurgency now covers the entire North Caucasus.
There is currently a movement afoot for part of northern California and southern Oregon to secede from their states and form the state of Jefferson.
Then after that, there were movements to secede from the union, and then in 1962 the military took over to save the union from falling apart.
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On January 17th the Labour Party's central committee crushed a motion by Yossi Beilin, a former minister and indefatigable peace negotiator, to secede from the coalition government.
Thirteen members of the self-styled Republic of Texas , which wants Texas to secede from the United States, held police at bay from a compound in Fort Davis.
The referendum was only the third such vote in Croatia after it in 1991 voted to secede from Yugoslavia, and last year to join the European Union this summer.
KLA's war to secede from Serbia would create a dubious precedent (with possible repercussions for Turkey's war against its own armed Kurdish separatists) and stoke dangerous tension with Russia.
Moreover, most union constitutions consider any attempt by a member to secede from the union including on an individual basis a punishable offense that can result in steep fines and even termination of employment.
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Moreover, the accord provided for a referendum in the south, to take place in or before January 2011, on whether that vast region should secede from the north, creating a brand-new independent country.
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Anger over Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where the city's trash was shipped until 2001, contributed to the unpopularity of Mayor David Dinkins in the borough and its efforts to secede from New York City in the mid-1990s.
It's Austin - a person called Caleb M wants Austin to secede and form its own US state, should Texas ever secede from the US. The petition must gain 25, 000 signatures by 12 December to receive a presidential response.
Throw in the government of the only republic to successfully secede from the US. Yes, those Conch Republic flags say "We Seceded Where Others Failed, " and that is the Keys in a conch shell: equal parts tacky, quirky and alluring.
Perry, who calls Social Security "a monstrous lie" and has flirted in the past with the idea that Texas should secede from the United States, thought that what Americans wanted in a president was Yosemite Sam without the intellectual pretensions.
Three decades ago Greenlanders won a degree of home rule and then, anxious about fishing rights, promptly voted to pull themselves out of the European Union (then the European Community), completing the process in 1985, becoming the only people ever to secede from the continental block.
Meanwhile Mr Netanyahu's partner on the left of the coalition, Ehud Barak, the defence minister, who heads the Labour party, has been facing demands from his colleagues that his lot should also secede from the coalition if negotiations with the Palestinians have not resumed by the end of the year.
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