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Example sentences for: ceded

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China was obliged to open major ports to foreign political and economic penetration; Hong Kong was ceded to Britain.
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.
It was dropped at the court of Gaelic kings in favour of English about 900 years ago, perhaps to please an English queen or perhaps to ensure the retention of the English-speaking half of Northumbria ceded to Scotland.
That led in 1713 to the treaty of Utrecht under which Spain ceded its rights to Gibraltar to the British.
In 1128 the king, David I, ceded land to the Augustinian order for the creation of the Abbey of Holyrood.