Sentence examples for annexed about from inspiring English sources

Argentina and Brazil annexed about 55,000 square miles (140,000 square km) of Paraguayan territory: Argentina took much of the Misiones region and part of the Chaco between the Bermejo and Pilcomayo rivers; Brazil enlarged its Mato Grosso province from annexed territory.

All of those powers had already annexed about a third of the Commonwealth territory and population ( and four to five million people) in the First Partition of Poland in 1772-1773.

These politicians claim that a pullout back to the 1978 frontier would involve Israel annexing about 46 square miles of land that was Lebanon's before 1948.

Overwhelmed by remorse, Dailey spearheaded a park expansion project as a tribute to his late father, ultimately annexing about 80 acres to the Minneapolis park system.

Overwhelmed by remorse, Dan spearheaded a park expansion project as a tribute to his late father, ultimately annexing about 80 acres to the Minneapolis park system.

The Company occupied and annexed Mashonaland about a year later.

Al-Fujayrah has had a turbulent modern history, the central theme of which has been the power struggle between the sheikhdom of Al-Shāriqah, which annexed the area about 1850, and the sheikh of Al-Fujayrah and his allies, who desired independence.

The population of Germany, excluding conquered and annexed territories, is about 70,000,000, almost equally divided between male and female.

THIS dairy-farming and agricultural town dating from the 17th century has annexed four farms totaling about 500 acres where development could triple the current population of 3,700.

Xinjiang is an energy colony, multi-ethnic and largely Islamic, filled with Uighurs, the largest ethnic group there, and others still unhappy about being annexed by Imperial China centuries ago.

This was changed when Eleusis was annexed to the Athenian territory about 600 bc.