And when the N.F.L. Players Association decertified last Friday, it ceded its ability to regulate agents.
It ceded its crown as the biggest seller of display ads to Facebook and Google.
This might give pause to the church, wondering how it ceded its role to a priesthood of comedians.
At other biennales, Italy is the uninvited host, on account of the fact that it ceded its supremacy in new architecture some time ago.
Shares in the British mobile operator fell to a two-year low; it ceded its position as Britain's most valuable company to BP.Two German Länder challenged the federal government's ownership of the airwaves.
Still, analysts note that the New National Party's support levels have held fairly steady since it ceded its position as the pre-eminent white political party to the Democratic Party in the 1999 elections.
Still, it ceded its spot as India's largest domestic airline to Rahul Bhatia's IndiGo.
France did not abandon its claims to Texas until November 3, 1762, when it ceded all of its territory west of the Mississippi River to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, following its defeat by Great Britain in the Seven Years' War.
But such defiance comes at a time when prospects for the Sahrawi independence movement look as bleak as the barren land that it controls and from which its leader, Muhammad Abdelaziz, was speaking.Before Spain pulled its troops out of its colony of Western Sahara in 1976, it ceded the territory to Morocco and Mauritania.
Ms. Cordell says the corps could not get directly involved despite its desire to do something, because it ceded control of the cemetery plot to the county in 1961.
Talbots swung to a loss for the year ending Jan . 28 as it ceded business to competitors and increased its promotions.
