Kipling penned this ode to imperialism as a tribute to the US annexation of the Philippines. |
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Their annexation of the most coveted trophy in Gaelic football unleashed a frenzy of unconfined joy. |
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Seemingly the entire world agreed that Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait should be reversed. |
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But officials were so keen to preserve friendly relations with Indonesia that they made it clear they would not oppose any annexation. |
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Only a small part of the conquered territories suffered outright annexation. |
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There were senators calling for the conquest and annexation of the whole of Mexico. |
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Bukey's interpretation of Austria's annexation to Germany largely follows the prevailing view. |
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The annexation of Eritrea by Ethiopia in 1962 started off a bitter 30-year war of independence. |
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In Wales the threat of English invasion and annexation did not impose unity. |
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Lorraine, an independent duchy embedded in French territory and occupied and exploited by the French ever since 1670 in the hope of ultimate annexation, had to be given up. |
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When the annexation of Belgium was decreed on 1 October 1795 the mover of the proposal, Merlin de Douai, also recommended the annexation of the entire left bank of the Rhine. |
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Britain's colonial policy, which resulted in the annexation of NZ in 1840, was also shaped by a desire to limit the evil effects of the felonry on Maori. |
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This annexation, similar to the de facto annexation of broad tracts of land, constitutes a flagrant breach of the right of the people to self-determination. |
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Oh, and beyond the psychological impacts, Russia is likely to face significant costs as a result of the Crimea annexation. |
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Last April, shortly after annexation, the Duma voted for the law allowing gaming zones in Crimea. |
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It was on 1 September 1977 that South Africa reimposed direct rule over the enclave and reasserted its claim to sovereignty based on the original annexation. |
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Under Benito Mussolini annexation of Corsica had become one of the main goals of Italy's imperialist policy. |
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The claim was initially protested by the United Kingdom, on the basis of Norris's landing and annexation. |
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The Indian Empire in 1893 after the annexation of Upper Burma and incorporation of Baluchistan. |
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On the lower Danube, which was given priority over the upper Danube, this required the annexation of Moesia. |
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The strategic result of Crassus' campaigns was the permanent annexation of Moesia by Rome. |
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Trajan's war against the Parthian Empire ended with the sack of the capital Ctesiphon and the annexation of Armenia and Mesopotamia. |
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This event might have prompted the annexation of the Nabataean kingdom, but the manner and the formal reasons for the annexation are unclear. |
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Upon the islands' Christianisation, the datus retained governance of their territories despite annexation to the Spanish Empire. |
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The second ended with British victory and annexation of the Boer areas into the British colonies. |
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The annexation of Poland was presented as necessary to protect the ethnic German minorities there. |
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Before the Japanese annexation period of Korea, the geopolitics of East Asia were ruled by the Chinese tributary system. |
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In addition, the British annexation of the Protectorate interfered with the sovereignty of indigenous chiefs. |
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Velha Goa was incorporated into the Republic of India after its annexation in 1961, together with the rest of Goa. |
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This government was the first acting public government of the Oregon Country before annexation by the government of the United States. |
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By the early 16th century the annexation of Pomor'e by Moscow was completed. |
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The fall of Kazan had as its primary effect the outright annexation of the Middle Volga. |
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Although it did not eradicate political corruption and land annexation, it positively relieved social contradictions. |
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As mentioned above, the pope's sovereignty over the Papal States ended in 1870 with their annexation by Italy. |
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This was achieved either by subsidiary alliances between the Company and local rulers or by direct military annexation. |
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This work covers the ensuing 111 years to the 1818 annexation of the Maratha territories by the British East India Company. |
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In an incorporating annexation a state or states is united to and dissolved in an existing state, whose legal existence continues. |
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If a state becomes a federated unit of another existing state, the former continuing its legal existence, then that is a federal annexation. |
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Welsh law continued to be used for civil cases until the annexation of Wales to England in the 16th century. |
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The annexation of Egypt, Sicily and Tunisia in North Africa provided a continuous supply of grains. |
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Charles extended the Burgundian territory with the annexation of Tournai, Artois, Utrecht, Groningen and Guelders. |
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The annexation was ratified in 1950 but was rejected by the international community. |
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On the other hand, Millerites succeeded in resisting annexation at this time. |
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However Russia was ejected from the group in 2014 following the Russian annexation of Crimea. |
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This meeting was the first since Russia was expelled from the group G8 following its annexation of Crimea in March. |
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With the annexation of Oudh in 1856, this territory was extended and eventually became the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. |
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The Czechoslovak government was forced to accept the Sudetenland's annexation into Germany. |
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Franz Joseph II first moved to Liechtenstein in 1938, a few days after Austria's annexation. |
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It is estimated that during World War II and the subsequent Soviet annexation, Lithuania lost 780,000 people. |
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During late 1937 and throughout 1938, German demands for the annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland led to an international crisis. |
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With annexation, the name of Prospect Avenue changed to Hollywood Boulevard and all the street numbers were also changed. |
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An African Union report called for economic integration of Lesotho with South Africa but stopped short of suggesting annexation. |
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Shortly after annexation, on 1 October 1923, the first constitution for the new Colony of Southern Rhodesia came into force. |
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The international community condemned this initial annexation of the Baltic states and deemed it illegal. |
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The great empires depended on military annexation of territory and on the formation of defended settlements to become agricultural centres. |
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Godechot finds that after the annexation, Belgium's business community supported the new regime, unlike the peasants, who remained hostile. |
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The Crimea annexation was a step in this direction, in Dugin's opinion. |
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The multilingual Li shared with the Globe a poem he had writ ten that almost seemed to prefigure an annexation of Canada by China. |
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The bell pays homage to Hitler for his 1938 annexation of Austria and describes him as 'the unifier and Fuehrer of all Germans. |
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They opposed North Carolina's annexation of the Washington District and the concurrent settling of the Transylvania Colony further north and west. |
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It resulted in the defeat and annexation of the Principality of Wales, and the other last remaining independent Welsh principalities, by Edward I, King of England. |
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His annexation of Crimea and proxy war in eastern Ukraine evoked all the ghosts of the Anschluss and the Sudetenland in the chancelleries of Europe. |
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When they are adopted by a state, they typically result in tensions, and actual attempts at annexation are always considered a casus belli, a cause for war. |
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The current annexation or reannexation of Crimea and escalating tension with Ukraine as the refreshed Russian bear flexes his muscles could be another. |
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The alternative view is to see the campaign as triggered by the lure of territorial annexation and prestige, the sole motive ascribed by Cassius Dio. |
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The last large annexation was done through the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937, when the cities Altona, Harburg and Wandsbek were merged into the state of Hamburg. |
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From the annexation of Alsace by France in the 17th century and the language policy of the French Revolution up to 1870, knowledge of French in Alsace increased considerably. |
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The Roman historian Strabo mentions a vast increase in trade following the Roman annexation of Egypt, indicating that monsoon was known and manipulated for trade in his time. |
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Although the annexation of the earldom by Scotland took place over five centuries ago in 1472, some Orcadians regard themselves as Orcadians first and Scots second. |
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In the 1930s, many exponents of this movement became irredentist, seeing annexation of the island to fascist Italy as the only solution to its problems. |
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He was a former comitadji who had been involved in fomenting unrest in Bosnia after the annexation of 1908 and was even rumoured to have commanded guerrilla bands. |
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Chicanos are genetically connected to the indigenous ancestors of the Americas and to the space of Aztlan, the northern territories of Mexico before annexation. |
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Sikh migration from British India began in earnest during the second half of the 19th century, when the British completed their annexation of the Punjab. |
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The second group, the taluqdars, had lost half their landed estates to peasant farmers as a result of the land reforms that came in the wake of annexation of Oudh. |
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On 19 December 1961, the Indian Army began military operations with Operation Vijay resulting in the annexation of Goa, Daman, and Diu into the Indian union. |
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Danish and Norse attacks on southern Northumbria caused its power to falter and the northern portion became equally open to annexation by Scotland. |
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Although the annexation of the earldom by Scotland took place over five centuries ago in 1472, many Orcadians regard themselves as Orcadians first and Scots second. |
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Britain did not evacuate Malta as promised and protested against Bonaparte's annexation of Piedmont and his Act of Mediation, which established a new Swiss Confederation. |
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The first of these was the outright annexation of Indian states and subsequent direct governance of the underlying regions, which collectively came to comprise British India. |
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With some important exceptions, successful wars in early republican Rome generally led not to annexation or military occupation, but to the restoration of the way things were. |
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The Republic of Texas requested annexation to the United States in 1837, but fears about potential conflict with Mexico delayed the admission of Texas for nine years. |
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