Sentence examples for its cession to from inspiring English sources

Uninhabited and used for growing coconuts before its cession to France in 1964, the island was from 1966 to 1996 the site of a number of French nuclear weapons tests conducted through the Pacific Experimentation Centre.

This was for the reason that title to the territory north of the line remained in the Indians under the said treaty until its cession to the United States by treaties of 1828 and 1829, as will hereinafter appear.

Most Banias and Parsis did not actually settle in Bombay until after its cession to England by the Portuguese.

It was planned that Northern Epirus would be ceded to Greece following the war, but withdrawal of Italian support and Greece's defeat in the Asia Minor Campaign resulted in its final cession to Albania in November 1921.

In foreign policy, he was neutralist but drifted toward Prussia, whose side he took in the Bavarian succession dispute (1778 79), when it prevented Bavaria's cession to Austria.

Napoleon was born on Corsica shortly after the island's cession to France by the Genoese.

He recognized Charlemagne's title of emperor (Western, Holy Roman) in return for the cession to Byzantium of Venice and other cities on the Adriatic.

He cleverly drew the boundary line to exclude certain parts of the east bank that had been part of the 1805 cession to Zebulon Pike.

At the time both of its cession and retrocession, it was occupied chiefly by the Indians.

In that event, as in cases of acquisition by purchase without consent of the state, jurisdiction is dependent upon cession by the state, and the state may qualify its cession by reservations not inconsistent with the governmental uses.

He accused the White House of having made all its changes in the welfare program to please conservative critics "at the expense of the poor people" and without making any con cessions to Liberals who were dissatisfied with the plan.