Sentence examples for * the cessions from inspiring English sources

Approached with similar demands, Finland refused to comply, even though the U.S.S.R. offered territorial compensation elsewhere for the cessions that it was requiring for its own strategic reasons.

Opponents to the village government's methods, however, won out in later years; supporting a quick growth to rival the increasing affluence of surrounding villages, they oversaw the cessions of the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort and Lincolnshire Corporate Center over a period of years following 1983.

Requests for the cession of Colombo met with evasive replies.

Following the cession of Québec to Britain in 1763, education fell prey to political and cultural disruption.

In late June a Soviet ultimatum to Romania demanded the cession of Bessarabia and of northern Bukovina.

The allies, it is said, demand the cession of the whole of Turkey in Europe except the city of Constantinople and a strip of territory across the Thracian peninsula.

Fresh peace negotiations, directed toward the cession of the duchies to Austria and Prussia jointly, achieved their purpose in the Treaty of Vienna of October 30, 1864.

The Austrasian Burgundian alliance was briefly broken in 581, when Chilperic too adopted Childebert, but Guntram bought off Childebert by the cession of territory.

He recognized Charlemagne's title of emperor (Western, Holy Roman) in return for the cession to Byzantium of Venice and other cities on the Adriatic.

A brief peace made with Stephen in 1136 resulted in the cession of Cumberland to David and the transfer of Huntingdon to his son Earl Henry.

When Chlotar attacked Burgundy in 605, Austrasia stood aloof, and in 610 Theodebert seized Theodoric by duplicity and extorted the cession of Alsace.