| Before the secessions of the early 1990s, an extensive network of air routes had been developed. |
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| A split would be unprecedented, even though several EU members were born of earlier secessions. |
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| Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion resulted in further secessions and both sides built up their armies. |
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| The secessions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been major challenges to the government since the country's independence. |
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| The tradition presented this as the first of three secessions, the other two allegedly occurring in 449 and 287 bc. |
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| Can democracy and peace, and also schools, the Nation-State, and cities survive this extreme polarization and the urban, technological and cultural secessions thereby engendered? |
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| In the 19th century, the Wesleyan Methodist Church experienced many secessions, with the largest of the offshoots being the Primitive Methodists. |
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| The election of Lincoln and the first secessions resulted in the dissolution of the company as soon as the North began blockading the Southern coastlines. |
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| The degree of observance required of members remained a major source of conflict within the order, resulting in numerous secessions. |
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| In addition, there were secessions and upheavals in several parts of the Spanish empire, the world's first global empire. |
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| This was reflected in the disproportionate role, before the republican secessions of the early 1990s, of Montenegrins in Yugoslavia's armed forces. |
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| The Greek debt crisis is the biggest challenge since those Yugoslav secessions to Europe's attempt at overcoming its geographical and historical divisions. |
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