Sentence examples for be ceded from inspiring English sources
verb
To give up, give way, give away.
- Edward decided to cede the province.
Monday should be ceded to American football.
Kandahar, he said, will never be ceded.
Afghanistan cannot be ceded to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
"The playing field," he added, "is not going to be ceded to the opponents of reform".
It was also suggested that a large area of northeastern Anatolia be ceded to Soviet Georgia.
Perhaps more needs to be ceded than Asher thinks it politic to admit.
However, they do acknowledge that power can be ceded upwards when necessary.
In the Peace of Westphalia (1648), Austria lost its possessions in Alsace, and Lusatia had to be ceded for good to Saxony.
In 1541 he advised that Buda be ceded to the Turks, and in the Turkish administration he rose to the rank of chief justice.
But economic and labour-market policy would be co-ordinated, and foreign and defence policy would be ceded to the federation.
History of Gorizia, an attractive Italian border-town some 20 miles from Trieste, for which Tito has repeatedly demaned that it be ceded to Yugoslavia.
