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As part of the settlement ending the war, Alsace and a portion of Lorraine were ceded to Germany.
If it has ceded to Milan its place as Italy’s fashion capital, the old Renaissance city is still a center of exquisite, if classic, elegance.
Working-level officials were also to consider new steps on terrorist financing and America's perennially troubled public diplomacy efforts in the Muslim world, where NSC staff warned that "we have by and large ceded the court of public opinion" to al Qaeda.
This the playwright ceded to Morton, the coldhearted Establishment lawyer who unexpectedly throws himself into an anti-establishment cause--and who Northam plays (brilliantly) as an alert snake increasingly unsure of where to strike.
Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.