Sentence examples for gave it over from inspiring English sources

Fiat's brand has long since lost the lustre that gave it over half of its home market until the late 1980s.

Realizing that its 50% share of HD DVD content gave it more power over HD DVD's fate than its 20% share of Blu-ray content gave it over Blu-ray's, Time Warner decided in early 2008 to abandon the HD DVD camp, which immediately called it quits.

Midway, she paused and gave it over to the audience to sing and joined in only at the end.

In 197 bce Rome declared it free but gave it over in 166 bce to Athens, which retained nominal possession of the island until the time of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193 211 ce).

"It was the most useless office you can imagine," she said with a laugh, "because he only gave one speech on the campaign, and he gave it over and over and over".

The ECB used the power that such support gave it over the banks to push reluctant governments in Ireland and Portugal to accept the inevitable: a bail-out from euro-area creditors in conjunction with the IMF.That rescue has exposed the ECB's balance-sheet to big risks, since it has accepted as collateral ever dodgier government debt proffered by the troubled banks.

Writing it down and giving it over was the prize inside.

But instead of giving it over to the Germans, she ate it, piece by piece, before she was interrogated.

"Then you do let go of a lot of things because you give it over," she said.

But really, I think you've got to score the points there, even though you're giving it over to Brady".

Let's not do it any more, let's not give it over so easily".