the desire of the southern states to secede.

即使他不赞同南方州脱离联邦的想法。

youdao

Well, I just feel that I would plunge into a pit if I had to secede, as you put it.

照你说的，我觉得如果我不得不离开的话，我就跳进了一个陷阱。

youdao

The seismic shock of a Soviet republic voting to secede showed that the Soviet Union was finished.

这个加盟国票决退出苏联，造成了地震般的冲击，表明苏联已经走到了穷途末路。

youdao

There also was the danger that fighting would cause slave states still in the Union to secede and join the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Lincoln said no state had a legal right to secede the Union could not be broken.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

If southern states rejected all compromises on slavery, did they have the right to secede?

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Four of the country's six provinces, which support Mr Ratsiraka, are threatening to secede.

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Nor could it claim a right to secede anyway if the talks bogged down.

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Nobody says that the English must threaten to secede, as the Scots did before they got their Parliament.

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