Sentence examples for cede territory from inspiring English sources

The monarch also has the power to alter British territorial waters and cede territory.

There would be 1.3 billion people who would be angry if we cede territory".

They worried about treaties with Britain and Spain that might cede territory or sacrifice navigation rights in exchange for peace.

An armistice in 1918 forced Bulgaria to hobble its army, to pay reparations and to cede territory, including its outlet to the Aegean, to Greece and Yugoslavia.

According to the Treaty of San Stefano (March 3 , 1878, the Ottomans were to recognize the independence of Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro and cede territory to them, concede autonomy to an extensive new state of Bulgaria, cede territory to Russia in the Dobruja (west of the Black Sea) and eastern Asia Minor, introduce various administrative reforms, and pay an indemnity.

In his statement on Saturday, Mr. Sadr seemed to be claiming the moral high ground despite having to cede territory in Basra.

They fought a series of wars between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, forcing Iran to cede territories to Russia in what are today the countries of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, plus other properties in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

While officials have ceded territory to the protesters, their administration appears to still function in Hama.

In the Treaties of Tilsit (1807), Prussia ceded territory west of the Elbe River to the confederation.

I understand Israel not ceding territory in this uncertain period to a divided Palestinian movement.

Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior American commander in Iraq, said this did not mean ceding territory.