Sentence examples for long ceded from inspiring English sources

In art, it names any effort to square perception with what is perceived — a project long ceded, in modern times, to photography.

Matthew Passion" and the "Christmas Oratorio," is all the more welcome coming at a time when symphony orchestras are just beginning to reclaim the great works of the Baroque, too long ceded to early-music specialists.

New York has long ceded corruption fighting to the Justice Department, but Mr. Cuomo said on Monday that he would push for changes to the state's election and campaign fund-raising laws, declaring, "Never waste a crisis, as they say".

C1 Apple Unveils Browser Apple Computer unveiled new software in areas that others have long ceded to Microsoft: a free Web browser tailored for the Macintosh and a $99 program for making elaborate business presentations.

Consider that within the last 50 years Mahler, Shostakovich, Bartok, Sibelius and Copland have all moved from the periphery of the orchestral canon to its center, yet Beethoven, Brahms and company have not fallen out of fashion; and Bach, Haydn and Mozart, long ceded to period-instrument bands, are returning to the modern orchestra repertory.

Sears has long ceded territory in plenty of areas like toys and clothing.

But it long ago ceded its primacy to Washington and New York.

James Otis, in two long pamphlets, ceded all sovereign power to Parliament with this proviso.

CNN long ago ceded the No. 1 position among cable news channels to Fox News.

For failures organic and self-inflicted, track and field in the United States long ago ceded the first tier of the sporting hierarchy to the broadcast friendly Big Three.

"One with Others" retakes for poetry some of the "real life" ground that it long ago ceded to other art forms.