Sentence examples for try to annex from inspiring English sources

MARKETING IDEA Prepare for the N.F.L. to try to annex another part of the sports calendar.

Mrs Kroes and her team are worried that the German commissioner may try to annex their powers over mergers and state aid.

"Does anyone seriously suppose that Russia will try to annex Rockall in peacetime," questioned a civil servant's memo, "or would be physically able to maintain any sort of a useful observation post there?" The mandarin had a point.

Last year, the 3,100 residents of the unincorporated rural town of St. Augusta in south central Minnesota were deeply worried that the nearby city of St . Cloudmight try to annex them.

The Rwandan government strenuously denies supplying weapons to the M23 or trying to annex eastern Congo.

Leftists say he is trying to annex much of the West Bank.

The Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, accused Russia of trying to annex South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Boers from the Transvaal, trying to annex slices of Bechuanaland, proclaimed two small independent republics in Stellaland and Goshen.

A significant number of Nuba fought for the South during Sudan's two-decade civil war, and Khartoum's leadership accuses South Sudan of trying to annex South Kordofan.

The first might be called the denationalisation of compassion: the retreat of government, particularly the federal government, from areas that it tried to annex in the 1960s.

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara (a former Spanish colony), treated its people barbarously, defied the International Court of Justice and tried to annex the territory for its natural resources.