Sentence examples for request annexation from inspiring English sources

In 1857 troubles with the local Grebo people led the colony to request annexation with Liberia.

New Zealand was keen to annex the Cook Islands, but the United Kingdom would not agree to this except on certain conditions, one of which was that the request for annexation must come from the Cook Islands.

Kiselyov himself voiced a plan for the region's annexation to Russia, but the request was dismissed by his superiors.

While President Polk kept his annexation endeavors confidential, Senators passed a resolution requesting formal disclosure of the administration's Texas policy.

He also lobbied the United States Congress successfully against an annexation of the Dominican Republic by the United States, requested in a vote by a majority of voters in a referendum in 1869.

The government has vowed to keep its troops in the region – depite the fact a request for the  withdrawal of forces being a possible consequence of annexation of Crimea to Russia.

The last time the Russian President requested approval for military intervention from the upper house was shortly before the annexation of Crimea in March 2014.

Downing Street said the deployment was not just a practical bilateral response to a request for support, but a signal to the Russians that Britain will not countenance further large scale annexations of towns in Ukraine.

annexation wall, on village land.

Annexation nonetheless occurred in July 1898.

b. annexation of the Hawaiian Islands.