Sentence examples for were ceded from from inspiring English sources

It states, "Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Philippine islands became a United States possession in 1898 when they were ceded from Spain following the Spanish-American War.

This might corroborate the hypothesis that these codons were ceded from Glu to Val.

The discovery of gold in California in 1848 brought a burst of migration to the West Coast and led to California's admission to the Union in 1850, barely two years after it had been ceded from Mexico.

The year when power was ceded from the young to the old, from the globally-minded to locally-concerned.

As part of this treaty, the border town of Leticia and its surrounding area was ceded from Peru to Colombia, giving Colombia access to the Amazon River.

The Senkaku islands were neither part of Taiwan nor part of the Pescadores Islands, which were ceded to Japan from China in accordance with the Treaty of Shimonoseki in May 1895.

The cDNA clones used to prepare the cDNA microarrays were ceded by Dr. Catherine Nguyen from INSERM U928, Marseille, France.

The Bellary and South Kanara districts were ceded to Mysore state, and Kerala was formed from the Malabar district and the former princely states of Travancore and Cochin.

The islands were ceded to Greece in 1864.

We blew by Brega the rebels were ceding territory rapidly.

And while effective centralized control over the shop floor was ceded to management from the beginning, that control was later available to share with politically powerful unions if and when these were willing to seek legislation on "industrial democracy".