Sentence examples for the cession from inspiring English sources
noun
That which is ceded. Insurance: (part of) a risk which is transferred from one actor to another.
- The reinsurance company accepted a 25% cession from the direct insurer.
Requests for the cession of Colombo met with evasive replies.
Following the cession of Québec to Britain in 1763, education fell prey to political and cultural disruption.
In late June a Soviet ultimatum to Romania demanded the cession of Bessarabia and of northern Bukovina.
The governors of the Johor sultanate were recognized as independent by the British in the cession of Singapore (1819).
The French press points out what it terms the extravagance of the German demands, which it takes to include the cession by France of the Gabon territory.
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.
In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles, under the authority of Hastings, obtained the cession by purchase of the strategic island of Singapore.
Fresh peace negotiations, directed toward the cession of the duchies to Austria and Prussia jointly, achieved their purpose in the Treaty of Vienna of October 30, 1864.
A brief peace made with Stephen in 1136 resulted in the cession of Cumberland to David and the transfer of Huntingdon to his son Earl Henry.
Though expecting the French to be satisfied with the cession of distant Songkhla, Narai was forced to accept their occupation of Bangkok.
As the prize of its victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 95, Japan demanded from China the cession of the Liaodong Peninsula.
