Sentence examples for it annexed from inspiring English sources

The Kingdom of Italy expanded in 1866: it annexed Venetia, but its navy was defeated in the Adriatic near Vis.

Kansas City grew even more quickly after World War II, as it annexed adjacent land and increased its area more than fivefold.

MOMA was so worried that collectors might forget it during its three-year closure for renovation that it annexed new exhibition space in order to remain in their minds.

His reflections come during a week when Israel announced two proposals for hundreds of housing units – one for 1,600 homes in Ramat Shlomo and another for 112 flats in Beitar Illit – despite promising a 10-month partial suspension of settlement building in the West Bank, though not in East Jerusalem, which it annexed in 1967 and regards as its territory.

But he has called for an end to EU sanctions against Russia and said Bulgaria should be pragmatic in its approach to any international law violations by Moscow when it annexed Crimea.

It is building up its ground and air forces in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgian territories it annexed after the 2008 clash with Georgia, and at the Gyumri base in Armenia.

To be asked if my writing is a form of catharsis annoys me, because it annexes the territory of literature under the flag of therapy.

As Regina grows eastward, it annexes land from this RM.

As Regina expands, it annexes land from Sherwood No 159.

That lasted until Russia's Catherine the Great (seen below) took it from the Tatars, annexed it and made it part of the Russian Empire.

From 1409 to 1796 it was ruled by the Este family, and it was annexed to Piedmont in 1859.