Sentence examples for the cessions 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.
Approached with similar demands, Finland refused to comply, even though the U.S.S.R. offered territorial compensation elsewhere for the cessions that it was requiring for its own strategic reasons.
Opponents to the village government's methods, however, won out in later years; supporting a quick growth to rival the increasing affluence of surrounding villages, they oversaw the cessions of the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort and Lincolnshire Corporate Center over a period of years following 1983.
Requests for the cession of Colombo met with evasive replies.
The governors of the Johor sultanate were recognized as independent by the British in the cession of Singapore (1819).
In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles, under the authority of Hastings, obtained the cession by purchase of the strategic island of Singapore.
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.
In 1766 the East India Company joined the nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad against Hyder Ali in return for the cession of the Northern Sarkars.
The allies, it is said, demand the cession of the whole of Turkey in Europe except the city of Constantinople and a strip of territory across the Thracian 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.
In July 1919 he reached agreement with the Italians on the cession of the Dodecanese (Dodekánisa) and secured an extension of the Greek area of occupation in Anatolia.
