Mr. Camargo said he admired the company's commitment to producing Shakespeare — rather than ceding him to the British and transferring their productions to New York — and to using theater-trained actors rather than casting Hollywood celebrities who might help sell tickets.
And — who knows? — Trollope might have ceded him the point.
In this case the president has the authority and duty to pay our country's obligations, but Congress's ceding him the power to set the debt-ceiling is transferring a power of Congress to the president.
To respond by debating his grievances was to cede him, and violence itself, too much power.
The Gepids obtained the support of the Emperor in exchange for a promise to cede him the region of Sirmium, the seat of the Gepid kings.
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.
"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".
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.
In the second half of 1242 he invaded Austria and forced Duke Frederick II to surrender the three counties ceded to him during the Mongol invasion.
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.
