secede, secession, peacekeeping/peacekeeper, fractional, cyberattack, interrogating, charging and trying. Peaks Islanders have mounted six unsuccessful campaigns to secede from Portland, which is three miles away and governs the island.

The locals have an independent character. Many live in weather-beaten cottages and drive junker cars that don’t require a state inspection sticker if kept on-island. Since the 1880s, Peaks Islanders have mounted six unsuccessful campaigns to secede from Portland, which is three miles away and governs the island.

Editorial

Hobbling the Fight Against Terrorism

Congress's push to increase the role of the military in interrogating, charging and trying most terrorism cases is bad policy.

US Expresses Concern Over Cyberattacks in Japan
New York Times
By HIROKO TABUCHI TOKYO — The United States gave a stern warning on Wednesday over recent cyberattacks on Japan's top defense contractors, the latest in a series of security breaches that have fueled worries over Tokyo's ability to handle delicate ...







NATO Troops Step in as Violence Flares at Kosovo Border

NATO peacekeepers on Tuesday engaged in their first military action
after Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia as
angry ethnic Serbs, who oppose Kosovo's secession, attacked frontier
posts.

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 In the middle of May 1860, delegates to the Republican National Convention met in Chicago to choose the party's nominee for president. The United States faced its greatest crisis since the Revolutionary War. The Democratic Party was so bitterly divided that it had been unable to even choose a candidate at its own convention, so the man the Republicans selected would almost certainly become president and face the Herculean task of dealing with secession.




But perhaps he doesn’t need one. In 1859, John Brown sought not only to free slaves in Virginia but to terrorize the South and incite a broad conflict. In this he triumphed: panicked whites soon mobilized, militarized and marched double-quick toward secession. Brown’s raid didn’t cause the Civil War, but it was certainly a catalyst.


secede verb [I] FORMAL
to become independent of a country or area of government:
There is likely to be civil war if the region tries to secede from the south.

secession
noun [U] FORMAL

secessionist noun [C], adjective FORMAL

secession

sɪˈsɛʃ(ə)n/

noun

1. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

   "the republics want secession from the union"

   synonyms:

   withdrawal, break, breakaway, separation, severance, schism, apostasy, leaving, quitting, split, splitting, disaffiliation, resignation, pulling out, dropping out, desertion, defection "the republic's secession from the Soviet Union"

   • historical

     the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the US Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.

     singular proper noun: Secession; noun: the Secession
   • variant of Sezession.

     noun: the Secession

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restraint，breeding hobble

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hobble

v., -bled, -bling, -bles. v.intr.
To walk or move along haltingly or with difficulty; limp.
v.tr.

1. To put a device around the legs of (a horse, for example) so as to hamper but not prevent movement.
2. To cause to limp.
3. To hamper the action or progress of; impede. See synonyms at hamper¹.

hobble (LIMIT)
verb [T]
1 to limit something or control the freedom of someone:
A long list of amendments have hobbled the new legislation.

2 LITERARY If you hobble an animal, especially a horse, you tie two of its legs together so that it cannot run away.

fraction Show phonetics
noun [C]
a number that results from dividing one whole number by another, or a small part of something:
¼ and 0.25 are different ways of representing the same fraction.
Although sexual and violent crimes have increased by 10%, they remain only a tiny/small fraction of the total number of crimes committed each year.
They can produce it at a fraction of the cost of (= much more cheaply than) traditional methods.

fractional Show phonetics
adjective
extremely small:
The fall in the value of the yen might result in a fractional increase in interest rates of perhaps a quarter of one per cent.

fractionally Show phonetics
adverb
Despite substantial price cuts, sales have increased only fractionally (= by a very small amount).

frac・tion

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━━ n. 断片; 少部分; （a ～） ((副詞的)) ほんの少し; 【数】分数; 【化】留分.
frac・tion・al　━━ a. ごくわずかな; 【数】分数の.
frac・tion・al・ly　ad. ごくわずかに.
fractional crystallization　【化】分別結晶作用, 分別晶出.
fractional distillation　【化】分留, 分別蒸留.
fractional share　【株】端株.