| With neither at full gallop, the game swayed inconclusively from one to the other, each team ceding dominance as quickly as they claimed it. |
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| Dunphy remains faithful, by contrast, to the tradition of democratic centralism, ceding little control to others. |
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| The fear of ceding national sovereignty to business interests has unified this side into a form of nationalism. |
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| Leave aside the implications for self-government of effectively ceding such powers to Brussels. |
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| The cost to them of maintaining their corrupt authoritarian rule and ceding territory to neighbors will be high. |
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| We are defending the country by ceding our own powers of self-defense to a set of managers external to ourselves. |
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| In the eyes of euro-sceptics we have conceded enough power to European institutions already without ceding control of our economy too. |
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| He was very careful to avoid criticizing the president, who had some of his colleagues spitting chips for ceding way too much, too soon. |
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| France, Portugal and Greece allegedly have reservations about ceding national sovereignty over their airspace. |
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| Now the vogue is for ceding powers to the autocracy of Brussels, which is immune from the vulgarities of electoral leverage. |
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| We gave away a big chunk of our sovereignty in 1972, and since then, bit by bit, we have been ceding more and more of it. |
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| The state would compensate the landlord for his lost dues or services to the tune of four-fifths of the capital value of the allotments he was ceding. |
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| However, Don ends up ceding the LA office to Ted, leaving his marriage in a desperate state of disrepair. |
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| The retrocession of reinsured risks does not relieve the Company of its responsibilities to the ceding companies. |
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| For example, this may occur on a reinsurance block where seriatim data has not been provided by the ceding company. |
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| In 1334 Balliol had to pay the price, performing liege homage to Edward for his kingdom, and ceding much of southern Scotland to Edward III's direct rule. |
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| Perhaps it was always like this – take my hand, horizon – ceding this land. |
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| He lost three contests, Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota, ceding a full news cycle to Rick Santorum, who swept the trio. |
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| Investment revenue on these funds withheld is credited by the ceding insurer. |
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| The Company records an amount receivable from the ceding insurer or payable to the reinsurer representing the premium due. |
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| He wasn't impressed by goalkicks being blootered up the park, immediately ceding possession to opponents, but he was less effusive about Scotland's physicality. |
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| Instead, they should be opposing the fact that national parliaments are ceding much more power than the European Parliament is gaining. |
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| The decrease in doubtful debts can mainly be explained by the recovery of loans from defaulting debtors and by the ceding of debt instruments. |
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| Abandonment means the intention or act of surrendering, relinquishing, disclaiming, or ceding property or rights. |
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| During these months British and French emissaries negotiated for the return of Canada to France and for the ceding of Guadeloupe to England! |
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| These ceding reinsurance arrangements do not relieve our insurance subsidiaries from their direct obligation to the insureds. |
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| Covers, centerfolds, and ads ripped from glossy magazines such as Ebony and Sports Illustrated blanket every available inch of wall and ceding space. |
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| A ceding parry is intended to divert the opponent's blade into a line other than the one where the attack was intended to end. |
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| Only the United States chose to dodge entirely the politics of choice by ceding budgetary surpluses in a flash with myriad tax cuts. |
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| Some reinsurers also warned that ceding companies and reinsurers could encounter administrative problems as a result of consolidation. |
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| The concern has been raised as regards our idea that, by ceding control, the companies operating facilities would be de facto nationalized and the huge investments made in the technology would be lost. |
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| Fighting there continued until June when the Allies evacuated, ceding Norway to Germany in response to the German invasion of France. |
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| On 18 May they signed a peace treaty at Paris, ceding Savoy and Nice and allowing the French bases to be used against Austria. |
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| Austria later signed the Treaty of Campo Formio, ceding the Austrian Netherlands to France and recognizing the French border at the Rhine. |
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| Nevertheless, the Cyprus Convention ceding the island to Britain was announced during the congress, and again made Disraeli a sensation. |
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| The next year, Britain signed the Treaty of Managua, ceding the rest of the Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua. |
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| And she may be ceding her title as the most powerful woman in tech. |
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| Herodian and Dio wrote only in passing of the campaign but describe the Caledonians ceding territory to Rome as being the result. |
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| According to Bayle, because she thinks the man is her husband, the wife, in ceding him those rights, not only is inculpable of an act that otherwise would be adulterous, but actually performs her duty. |
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| Mr Montebourg seemed keen on the idea that Siemens would acquire Alstom's energy assets, in turn ceding its transport operations to the French firm to create two European champions. |
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| The principal risks for a ceding company are outlined below. |
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| The reserves are based on cession statements provided by ceding companies. |
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| Government's new role may in some respects be characterized as a more limited one, ceding functions in some areas and working in partnership with interested parties in others. |
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| It is also worth mentioning that, after ceding to pressure from dozens of NGOs around the world, the IMF has opened up its process of investigating the possible impacts of a global FTT to civil society participation. |
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| The latest understanding between America and Turkey, ceding control over the whole of the devolved Kurdish territory in the north of Iraq, is a nightmare scenario in which the Kurds will again face persecution and attack. |
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| For reinsurance, premiums are recorded on the basis of declarations made by the ceding company, and may include estimates of gross written premiums. |
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| Now, while the written treaty talks about yielding, ceding, giving up, surrendering the land, this does not seem to be the understanding that Indians at the time had. |
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| These challenges cannot be overcome by ceding to market dynamics alone. |
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| Outside of North America, there were no geographical changes except for ceding a few British islands in the West Indies to the French and Minorca to the Spanish. |
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| The contract included a number of provisos, including the label ceding greater creative control to the artist and a commitment to breaking Williams into the US market. |
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| With the Netherlands falling, Prussia also decided to leave the coalition, signing the Peace of Basel on 6 April, ceding the west bank of the Rhine to France. |
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| The first generation of metal bands was ceding the limelight. |
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| Ceding the desktop PC market, for most a break-even prospect at best, to Dell wouldn't be so bad. |
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