Sentence examples for the cession of from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

When Chlotar attacked Burgundy in 605, Austrasia stood aloof, and in 610 Theodebert seized Theodoric by duplicity and extorted the cession of Alsace.

The Austrasian Burgundian alliance was briefly broken in 581, when Chilperic too adopted Childebert, but Guntram bought off Childebert by the cession of territory.

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.

The terms of peace offered to Turkey by the allies are the cession of the whole of Turkey in Europe as far as and including the Tchatalja lines.