Sentence examples for to be ceded from inspiring English sources

"The playing field," he added, "is not going to be ceded to the opponents of reform".

Perhaps more needs to be ceded than Asher thinks it politic to admit.

In the Peace of Westphalia (1648), Austria lost its possessions in Alsace, and Lusatia had to be ceded for good to Saxony.

The areas to be ceded by Israel include several Palestinian villages and towns around the cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron.

But he made no secret of the fact that if Cyprus were to be ceded to any country, that country should be Turkey: because, he reasoned, Turkey had once owned it, while the Greeks, from Homer's time onwards, had merely settled there.As time passed, Mr Denktash got out of step with his people.

So Westminster would again be seen to be making critical decisions about the level of public spending in Scotland over the protests of the Scots themselves a grievance likely to stoke up the nationalist fire that devolution is intended to smother.If devolution is to endure, more taxation powers will have to be ceded to the Scots.

But now CNN seems to be ceding the No. 2 position to MSNBC.

But lately fashion appears to be ceding some of that authority to the people who buy and wear their clothes.

The leader of his supposed allies in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the ailing Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, seems to be ceding ground.

But he appeared relieved to be ceding the spotlight to the 5-foot-10 sparkplug that Kim became on the Valhalla Golf Club grounds.

If we follow the argument raised above that privacy is equivalent to information control then we do seem to be ceding our privacy away little by little.