Sentence examples for in annexing from inspiring English sources

Will their virtual men's room succeed in annexing the Guardian's weblog?

Yet, oddly, the spokesman never goes on to criticise Vladimir Putin or Russia, which, in annexing Crimea, has interfered in Ukrainian internal affairs in the crudest way imaginable.

With the discovery of diamonds in the Orange Free State & gold in the Transvaal British interest in annexing these Boer republics grew, culminating in the Anglo-Boer War, which the British won.

Conservatives in Guatemala succeeded in annexing the kingdom to Iturbide's Mexican empire, but this led immediately to civil war, as San Salvador and Granada refused to accept the decision.

Fighting is their raison d'être.Russia is probably not interested in annexing the Donbas, an unattractive coal region in the south-east of Ukraine that would land it with responsibilities but no obvious benefits.

Writing from a land that has seen more than its fair share of prophets, I have no problem in annexing the great prophet of theatre if it means we can think of his plays as a stark warning to us that live there.

South Africa claimed the island in 1947, annexing it in 1948.

Japan would complete the process in 1912 by annexing Korea.

They were placed under the French protectorate in 1889 and annexed in 1900.

(See table 4 in annex A).

She lived with her grown-up married children, in spare rooms, on sofabeds, in annexes.