CHRIS SWANN takes on the meme that the current downturn is a "man-cession"—that is, a contraction that has hit men relatively hard.
Approached with similar demands, Finland refused to comply, even though the U.S.S.R. offered territorial compensation elsewhere for the cessions that it was requiring for its own strategic reasons.
C. 1048 Humbert I, byname Humbert the Whitehanded, Italian Umberto Biancamano (died c. 1048) count of Savoy and founder of the house of Savoy, whose services to the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II were rewarded with the cession of lands that placed him in control of the strategic Alpine passes between Italy and France.
In the lexicon of the modern recession, he has found himself at the center of the "man-cession," the downturn that has hit men much harder than women.
That word is padjak Malaysia and Britain say it means "cession," which would mean that back in 1878 the sultan of Sulu transferred ownership of the area to the British in perpetuity.
Thus, for teaching and research purposes, 'direct action' could be defined as all physicochemical processes that occur after energy cession from the ionizing radiation to the tissues.
Cleon made steep demands, including (in effect) the cession of Megara, showing that he like Nicias in 427 and Demosthenes and Hippocrates in 424 grasped the strategic importance of Megara, even if the historian Thucydides did not.
Some trace it back to the Gadsden Purchase of 1854, when America bought from Mexico a strip of land south of the Gila river that was not included in the earlier cession after the Mexican-American war.
Sales of territory sometimes occurred as countries took their present shape, but in the past 150 years this type of formal cession has given way to leases and similar arrangements that leave sovereignty intact.
He cleverly drew the boundary line to exclude certain parts of the east bank that had been part of the 1805 cession to Zebulon Pike.
By the Peace of Polyanov that followed, Tsar Michael Romanov confirmed all earlier cessions of territory to Poland and agreed to pay 200,000 rubles in exchange for Władysław's renunciation of all claims to the tsardom.
