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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But some staff members have at one point expressed sympathy for a Valley secession .
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In the south the enforcement of a no-fly zone by western aircraft has raised the possibility of a Shia secession .
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It was the lack of democracy and equality which impelled the oppressed to fight for secession .
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More recently, the threat of Quebec's secession confronted the country with the very real possibility of political breakup.
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Other officials expressed concern that the proposed mechanism might actually prove to make secession impossible in practice.
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The daily papers teemed with the dreary records of secession ....
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The representatives of national groups increasingly demanded the right of autonomy, of self-government, if not outright secession .
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This time he can not just send in the army to take out Podgorica, because there is no secession under way.