Sentence examples for ordered to cede from inspiring English sources

The victory at Hockenheim was not without controversy as it was gifted to Alonso after Felipe Massa was clumsily ordered to cede the lead to his team-mate in a blatant breach of the rule banning team orders.

At Stalingrad, Soviets were ordered to cede "not a step back!" Under Stalin's orders, the Red Army used its infantry and tank units to turn the tide of the war.

And because Grainger recognizes that customers have to trust employees in order to cede power over their purchases, it carefully trains its people to act in their customers' best interests, not to simply maximize the sales commission or branch profitability.

Caracciola led the Swiss Grand Prix for several laps, Rosemeyer trailing him closely, but the Clerk of the Course ordered Caracciola to cede the lead to Rosemeyer on the ninth lap after he was found to be blocking the Auto Union.

Control of a northern corridor across Bosnia has been a major goal for the Serbian forces and the Croatian retreat from Bosnanski Brod marks the second time that Mr. Tudjman, the Croatian leader, has ordered Croatian defense council units to cede territory in the corridor to the Serbs.

As the defence forces of the city had fled, Isbul and Malamir entered negotiations with the population in order to persuade them to cede the fortress.

until everything is in a nice neat order, then they're going to cede opportunities to businesses from other parts of the world," Sanchez said, in reference to Iraq's massive reconstruction needs and relatively untapped consumer market.

Now he says he plans to spend another $1 billion possibly his whole fortune to provoke a series of street demonstrations throughout Russia, akin to Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, in order to force the president to cede power.

Great leaders learn to cede control in order to gain control; it's a paradox.

Publishers would collect less money this way, about nine dollars a book, rather than thirteen; the unattractive tradeoff was to cede some profit in order to set a minimum price.

American officials have said that Mr. Ross would like to pin down precisely how much West Bank land Israel is willing to cede to Palestinians in order to move the peace process forward.