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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."
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.
Present-day Azerbaijan was born when Iran ceded the territory to Russia after two wars in the early 19 th century.
As history grew more and more abstruse in the '60s and '70s, historians ceded the role of public intellectual to journalists.
The Maoris of New Zealand were ceded 39,000 acres of land and paid $112 million by the Crown in 1995, as part of a bill personally signed by Queen Elizabeth.