Sentence examples for a cession from inspiring English sources

Cessio bonorum, (Latin: "a cession of goods"), in Roman law, a voluntary surrender of goods by a debtor to his creditors.

He succeeded in adjusting certain minor issues and in gaining a cession of territory in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona.

The agreement, however, on the part of the Indians, was only to cede their title; it was not a cession, in terms, by them.

Still shaken by the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, he confronts the potential political consequences of a cession of Louisiana to France that might result in a denial of American access to the Mississippi.

Although there has been a cession of bombing (2000) and the declaration of Vieques as a Super-Fund Site (2002), long-term residents on Vieques still suffer significantly elevated cancer rates.

Further, as the formal and practical barriers to revocation of the act of dynamic incorporation become higher, that act comes closer to a cession of sovereignty, and for democratic polities, such sessions entail a democratic loss.

The invasion was halted when the Chinese agreed to a large cession of territory and a huge indemnity, but the Juchen renewed their attack two years later, capturing the capital and taking the Qinzong emperor and his father prisoner.

That's a dangerous precedent for women's health, and a dangerous cession of power to state legislatures.

In early September 1938, Chamberlain's search for appeasement led him to begin negotiations for a partial cession of the territory.

Nevertheless, the basic strategy of avoiding a re cession has been achieved.

The production is a suc cession of dramatic events and spectacles based on narrative by Kermit Hunter, who was a drama student at the University of North Carolina when he wrote the narrative, which was the thesis for his master's degree.