Sentence examples for cession was from inspiring English sources

The island was captured in 1758 by the British, to whom formal cession was made in 1763 in the Treaty of Paris.

The southern portion of this cession was in fact beyond Iroquois territory, and the British negotiated additional agreements with the Cherokee verifying the new boundaries in what is now West Virginia at the Treaty of Hard Labor (October 1768) and the Treaty of Lochaber (October 1770).

A treaty of cession was signed in May 1956, and following ratification by the French National Assembly in May 1962, de jure control of the enclaves was also transferred.

How can it be said therefore that when the cession was made by Mexico to the United States there was a present recognition by the Mexican government of the occupancy of these Indians?

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.

A cession of territory is never understood to be a cession of the property belonging to its inhabitants.

Fijian land rights, guaranteed by the Deed of Cession in 1874, were given constitutional protection, while Fijian chiefs were given an effective veto in all important matters affecting the status of Fijians and in changes to the constitution itself.

After trial cession all data are anonymised and stored on the server of Copenhagen University Hospital.

While effective smoking cession strategies have been developed and tested in western countries [ 14, 15] or urban areas in China [ 16, 17], there is little evidence in the wider literature upon which to develop strategies that target specifically towards rural population in China.

Though expecting the French to be satisfied with the cession of distant Songkhla, Narai was forced to accept their occupation of Bangkok.

The cession of Finland to Russia was a bitter loss for Sweden; but, in the words of the Swedish historian Sten Carlsson in 1969, "The loss of Finland was the price of the long and still unbroken period of peace that was to begin in 1814".