withdraw from an organization
41secede — intransitive verb (seceded; seceding) Etymology: Latin secedere, from sed , se apart (from sed, se without) + cedere to go more at suicide Date: 1749 to withdraw from an organization (as a religious communion or political party or federation) •… …
42Corfu — The island of Corfu, which was a territory contested by Italy and Greece, was the setting for Benito Mussolini’s first act of disobedience to international opinion and to the will of the League of Nations. The crisis began in August 1923 when… …
43Frankean Synod — The Frankean Synod was a Lutheran church body in North America in the 19th century. The Synod was formed by Lutheran pastors in New York who were dissatisfied with their church s position on slavery in 1837. The Synod was named in memory of the… …
44International Monetary Fund (IMF) — Specialized agency of the United Nations system. It was conceived at the Bretton Woods Conference (1944) and officially founded in 1945 as a voluntary cooperative institution to help ensure the smooth international buying and selling of currency …
45OPEC — Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries …
46Narasimham Committee on Banking Sector Reforms (1998) — From the 1991 India economic crisis to its status of fourth largest economy in the world by 2010, India has grown significantly in terms of economic development. So has its banking sector. During this period, recognizing the evolving needs of the …
47Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — From the moment that the Warsaw ghetto was established by the Germans in November 1940, an underground resistance movement emerged in the ghetto. After the deportation of July 1942, when 60,000 of the ghetto’s “nonproductive elements” were… …
48HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
49international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
50Israel — /iz ree euhl, ray /, n. 1. a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 5,534,672; 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Cap.: Jerusalem. 2. the people traditionally descended from Jacob; the Hebrew or Jewish people. 3 …
