Sentence examples for cede to him from inspiring English sources
He compelled Muḥammad Shah to cede to him the province of Kabul.
Putin demanded that the U.S. cede to him the former Soviet republics — Ukraine above all — as a Russian sphere of influence.
No doubt Putin would appreciate another autocrat, immune to restraints on government, doggedly nationalistic, indifferent to political dissidents and human rights advocates and willing to cede to him Syria.
"It began when we refused to cede to him the power to hire and fire the superintendent of schools," said Carol Wolf, a school board member who described her experiences with Mr. Wilder as "one unrelenting psychodrama of nonstop negativity".
When these were ceded to him through peaceful negotiations in 1810, Kamehameha was undisputed ruler of the entire island group.
To begin, she reached a settlement with Frederick, ceding to him Silesia by the treaties of Breslau and Berlin in June and July 1742.
Abandoned by its Western allies at Munich, Czechoslovakia first bowed in 1938 to Hitler's demand that the Sudetenland be ceded to him.
Also excellent is the baritone Giovanni Meoni as the Roman general Ezio, who turns against Attila after the latter rebuffs his proposal to allow Attila to control the entire world so long as Italy is ceded to him.
Bocchus was allowed to keep western Numidia as far as the Mulucha River (present-day Moulouya River in Morocco), which Jugurtha had ceded to him, and he became an ally of Rome.
He was so well regarded that in 1970, when a team of players from the Soviet Union, including five current or former world champions, challenged the best players in the rest of the world to a match, Mr. Fischer, though ranked higher than Mr. Larsen, ceded to him the right to play the top board against the world champion, Boris Spassky.
On the death of his father, Chlotar II, in 629, the entire Frankish realm went to his brother, Dagobert I, but Dagobert ceded to him several territories in Aquitaine and Gascony, with Charibert's capital at Toulouse, presumably to improve border defenses against the Visigoths and Basques of Spain.
