Sentence examples similar to the claim has been ceded from inspiring English sources

Dutch claims had originally extended as far east as the Connecticut River, but these claims had been ceded in the 1650 Treaty of Hartford, and reduced to a boundary line 20 mile east of the Hudson in 1664.

Modernizing the party has been ceded to Mr. McCain.

Major governmental policy has been ceded to the market.

At this point the French, who had been ceded much of Cochinchina (southern Vietnam), sought to assert Vietnamese claims to Cambodian tribute, seeing the adjacent Cambodian provinces as future colonial possessions.

Spain have long claimed sovereignty over the territory, despite it having been ceded to Britain in perpetuity back in 1713, and the two countries recently became involved in a dispute when Spain increased border checks that resulted in long delays heading in and out of Gibraltar.

This set the stage for future Iraqi claims on Kuwaiti territory, particularly on the islands of Būbiyān and Warbah, which had originally been part of the Ottoman province of Al-Baṣrah but had been ceded to Kuwait in the unratified convention of 1913.

(Britain continued to occupy frontier forts that had been ceded to the United States until the mid-1790s).