Sentence examples for first annexed from inspiring English sources

Each of the Australian external territories was considered uninhabited when it was first annexed by Great Britain.

The status of Limbang as part of Sarawak has been disputed by Brunei since the area was first annexed in 1890.

It is hard, after all, for events in Libya to compete with the far greater catastrophe unfolding in Ukraine, where Russian President Vladimir Putin first annexed Crimea and now appears intent on detaching the eastern part of the country.

While in Sudan, Mr Blair sat down with President Omar al-Bashir and berated him for the carnage in Darfur.Darfuri politicians say Mr Blair has a particular duty to help their cause, because it was Britain that first annexed Darfur to Sudan in 1916.

To that end, Mr. Lee is working with the architect Renzo Piano on the museum's first annex expansion.

Hedda fled Europe for the United States in 1938, the day the Third Reich annexed Austria.

Rome responded, defeated Carthage a second time, and annexed Spain (Second Punic War).

Having at first advocated annexing all the lands captured in 1967, he was soon pushing to give the Sinai peninsula back to Egypt, and became an early proponent of ceding sections of the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians.

A few days ago, I found myself standing between Mapasse and Jimaní, at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, a border drawn with American help in 1936.* On May 13 , 1916 the United States invaded the Dominican Republic for the first time, annexing the two countries for eight years, between 1916 and 1924.

Third, Annex I countries have to do more to reach the 2 degree target.

During the first century, the United States invaded Mexico, annexed a third of its territory and intervened in its revolution.