Sentence examples for cession of from inspiring English sources

Requests for the cession of Colombo met with evasive replies.

In early September 1938, Chamberlain's search for appeasement led him to begin negotiations for a partial cession of the territory.

The hotel industry has experienced a great deal of franchise development, cession of walls and management contracts.

Following the cession of Québec to Britain in 1763, education fell prey to political and cultural disruption.

The Creek cession of 1832 virtually ended the claims of indigenous peoples to territorial rights in Alabama.

In late June a Soviet ultimatum to Romania demanded the cession of Bessarabia and of northern Bukovina.

The governors of the Johor sultanate were recognized as independent by the British in the cession of Singapore (1819).

His cession of budget and contracting authority to the services had "the military-industrial complex... singing 'Praise the Laird,'" The Washington Post reported.

The prostitution of the motherland to property developers begins in Tristram's cession of his maternal inheritance, Hilltop, for an apartment complex whose value increases exponentially by the day.

Cessio bonorum, (Latin: "a cession of goods"), in Roman law, a voluntary surrender of goods by a debtor to his creditors.

Fresh peace negotiations, directed toward the cession of the duchies to Austria and Prussia jointly, achieved their purpose in the Treaty of Vienna of October 30, 1864.