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They ceded territory to a neighboring state.

France ceded the territory to them.

Mr Sharp ceded his stock holdings to his children.

The Qing government ceded China's Hong Kong to Britain.

The Philippines were ceded to the United States by Spain.

Genoa had ceded Corsica to France in 1768, after a series of revolts on the island.

Regulators need to regain the control they happily ceded in the 1980s, particularly over excessive borrowing.

As a safeguard Sultan ceded Rembau and Linggi to the Dutch.

he quickly stepped down and ceded power to Fouad Mebazaa, the head of Tunisia's parliament.

As a result of series of European wars, Florida was ceded to England.

Greenlanders are assuming more powers of self-government from Denmark, after the Danes ceded control in 2009.

But in recent years the colourful open-outcry trading floors have gradually ceded business to electronic transactions.

As the crisis has rumbled on, regulators have reluctantly ceded some ground to the barbarians at the Banks' gates.

In Indonesia, ground is being quickly ceded, as consumer prices rose by 6.3% in the year to November.

The UK topped the 2015 rankings, alongside Germany, but ceded the top spot after several countries relaxed visa restrictions to the latter.

The Afghanistan nation-state came into existence in 1746 under the Durrani Empire, but control was ceded to Britain until King Amanullah ascended to the throne in 1919.

Yet even before May, when Francois Hollande became the country's first Socialist president since Mitterrand, France had ceded leadership in the euro crisis to Germany.

A city of northern Italy south-southwest of Verona. Originally an Etruscan settlement, it was ceded to Austria in1714 and was finally returned to Italy in1866. Population, 60, 932.

An archipelago in the Baltic Sea at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and nized in the12th century by Swedes, the islands were ceded to Russia in1809and became part of Finland after World War I.

A city of north-central Czechoslovakia on the Morava River northeast of Brno. Possibly founded as a Roman fortress, it was ceded to Hungary in1478 and was the capital of Moravia until c.1640. Population, 105, 516.

The governor of South Tyrol, a German-speaking province ceded to Italy after the First World War, said that it was unreasonable to expect his people to celebrate their subjugation to an alien culture.

An unincorporated territory of the United States, the largest and most southerly of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific overed by Magellan in1521, the island was ceded by Spain to the United States a is the lation, 105, 979.