Sentence examples for ceded to him from inspiring English sources

When these were ceded to him through peaceful negotiations in 1810, Kamehameha was undisputed ruler of the entire island group.

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.

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.

William Penn gave the name Philadelphia to the capital of the woodland areas ceded to him (1681) because he took up the idea of establishing the true church of the end time, represented by the Philadelphia community of the Revelation to John.

He compelled Muḥammad Shah to cede to him the province of Kabul.

To begin, she reached a settlement with Frederick, ceding to him Silesia by the treaties of Breslau and Berlin in June and July 1742.

"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".

It has been speculated that this agreement marked a victory for Penda, ceding to him Cirencester and the areas along the lower River Severn.

Kennedy ceded to Clinton.