Sentence examples for retrocession was from inspiring English sources

To a certain extent, Deng Xiaoping's extraordinary concept of "one country, two systems" to handle Hong Kong's retrocession was an application of this second postulate.

This retrocession is taken out of the annual fee, pushing such fees higher and reducing clients' returns.

The central objection to retrocession is that it fails to give voice to the District's unique culture and interests.

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

The tribal governing body requesting the retrocession shall specify whether the retrocession shall be to a contract administered by the tribe, or a tribal entity, under the authority of the Indian Self-Determination Act [25 U.S.C. 5321 et seq.] or to a Bureau administered program.

Reports of the supposed retrocession soon were received by the U.S. government with deep misgivings.

To make it look as if it had transferred risk, HIH bought fake retrocession (that is, re-reinsurance).Then, in 1998, HIH bought another rotten insurer, FAI, for A$300m.

Their demands for Romania to allow indefinite military transit through Northern Dobruja were made ineffectual by the opposition of other European states, and Kogălniceanu was able to obtain the retrocession of Snake Island.

This suit was brought to determine the validity of the retrocession by Congress to the State of Virginia of that part of the District of Columbia, as originally constituted, which was ceded by Virginia to the United States.

Kruger was absent due to his illness, but he did attend the official retrocession five days later in Church Square.

Retrocession could be accomplished by a combination of federal and state legislation, just as it was in 1847, when the federal government ceded the portion of D.C. south of the Potomac River back to Virginia.