Sentence examples for cession to from inspiring English sources

Napoleon was born on Corsica shortly after the island's cession to France by the Genoese.

He recognized Charlemagne's title of emperor (Western, Holy Roman) in return for the cession to Byzantium of Venice and other cities on the Adriatic.

In foreign policy, he was neutralist but drifted toward Prussia, whose side he took in the Bavarian succession dispute (1778 79), when it prevented Bavaria's cession to Austria.

Uninhabited and used for growing coconuts before its cession to France in 1964, the island was from 1966 to 1996 the site of a number of French nuclear weapons tests conducted through the Pacific Experimentation Centre.

In accepting the cession to Prussia of the greater part of the left bank of the Rhine, however, Talleyrand created a serious danger for France that became especially clear in 1870, 1914, and 1939.

Through the summer of 1939, German propaganda grew more strident, demanding cession to Germany of the city of Gdańsk (Danzig) while gradually escalating demands for special rights in, and finally annexation of, the Polish corridor.

Yet, while he publicly opposed land sales in 1787, 1788, and 1790, he secretly signed the property cessions to protect his prestige with the Americans.

He accused the White House of having made all its changes in the welfare program to please conservative critics "at the expense of the poor people" and without making any con cessions to Liberals who were dissatisfied with the plan.

"Some American papers even threaten the immediate delivery of 125 Phantom and Skyhawk fighter bombers to Israel if the U.S.S.R. does not make con cessions to the American side during the contacts," it said.

South Korea has given con cessions to Wendell Phillips, Gulf, Imperial and Royal Dutch Shell along the shelf off Korea, and Japan Oil Development Corporation is going ahead with plans for exploration in over lapping areas.

The question then is - what is the best step to be taken?... Suppose the government begin by making a proposal to France to repurchase the cession, made to her by Spain, of Louisiana, provided it be with the consent of the people of Louisiana or a majority thereof..