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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.
In 1877, France bought back Saint-Barthélemy from Sweden for 320,000 gold francs (Louis XVI having ceded the little island 93 years earlier to his friend King Gustav III in return for duty-free trading rights in Gothenburg).
In 1128 the king, David I, ceded land to the Augustinian order for the creation of the Abbey of Holyrood.
As history grew more and more abstruse in the '60s and '70s, historians ceded the role of public intellectual to journalists.
The LAT for instance, tells its readers that, "awash in fireworks and fired-up patriotism, China celebrates the end of 156 years of 'national disgrace,' regaining a tiny patch of land ceded after a humiliating war and eyed enviously for a century," while the NYT can't keep to itself about the police band members at the ceremonies in their "snow white tunics" and the attendance there "of representatives of each of the territory's services, from the Correctional Services Department to the Auxiliary Medical Service."