He can imagine portions of the American Southwest being ceded back to Mexico.
From 1789 to 1846 Alexandria was part of the District of Columbia, after which it was ceded back to Virginia.
In 1790 much of the state's western territory was ceded back to the United States, and that land was soon reorganized into the state of Tennessee.
I was born in Trieste (then briefly an independent city-state -- ceded back to Italy in 1954) after World War II, and grew up there until we moved to Milan.
The British took possession of the town in 1763, and large numbers of loyalists settled there during the American Revolution; most loyalists left in 1783 when Florida was ceded back to Spain.
After the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchasing Act and the return to the gold standard in 1893, Independence was all but ceded back to the marmots, the beaver-size rodents who are sometimes called whistle pigs for their distinctive warning shrieks.
The company briefly passed the $60 mark in its post earnings frenzy, though it has since ceded back ground and fallen below the mark.
Ed fathered the great trucks the F-150 pickup, the Explorer, the Expedition that led Ford to big profits and truck leadership, which Ford recently ceded back to GM.
AMD in particular is having a hard time weathering the downturn, and in the last year has ceded back much of the market share it took from Intel in the previous two years.
Likewise, the coinsurance contracts did not provide adequate risk distribution for Reserve Mechanical because the risk assumed by PoolRe was simply re-ceded back to the other captives of Capstone clients, including Reserve Mechanical, i.e., it too in effect was a circular transaction.
Part of the land annexed to Guilderland was ceded back to Albany in 1910, setting up the current western border.
