| He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches. |
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| Russia finally conquered Finland during the Napoleonic wars of 1808-1809, annexing it as an autonomous grand duchy. |
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| Ms. Coke submitted two additional affidavits annexing documents received from the defendants. |
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| What the proposals amounted to was a plan to trisect the West Bank into three cantons by annexing blocs of settlements. |
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| The Kremlin responded by sending troops to Ukraine's Russian-speaking peninsula of Crimea and annexing it as part of Russia last month. |
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| Under the aegis of the so-called unilateral peace enforcement operation, Russian troops are annexing an independent country. |
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| Why go to the trouble of annexing a country that is so easy to exploit without taking any responsibility for it? |
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| In Canada and Great Britain many people feared that the Americans were hoping to enlarge their country by annexing Canada. |
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| In late 2007, China went a step further in formally annexing the Spratlys and the Paracels. |
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| This is annexing of territory, for the Qiriat Arba settlements are illegal. |
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| It is about annexing a group of countries and not about real negotiations between equal parties. |
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| There were no reports of unauthorized annexing of socially owned enterprises' property by municipalities during the reporting period. |
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| Such access is normally provided by annexing to the letter a copy of the relevant documents. |
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| During those years, Napoleon reshaped the peninsula's map at will, changing borders, deposing rulers, annexing territories, and establishing new states. |
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| When the same point is made by the foreign minister of a nuclear power which is in the process of annexing a piece of territory, it will probably get a bit more attention. |
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| The French government also took advantage of internal strife in Switzerland to invade, establishing the Helvetian Republic and annexing Geneva. |
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| During the reign of Henry VIII the Laws in Wales Acts were passed without any democratic mandate, annexing Wales into the English legal system. |
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| Construction of this military academy began exactly 400 years after the first Act of Union annexing Wales into England. |
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| By 1913, Greece's territory and population had almost doubled, annexing Crete, Epirus, and Macedonia. |
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| With the union of Castile and Aragon in 1469, these kingdoms set their sights on annexing Granada. |
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| Alfonso II assured Valencia by renouncing the Aragonese rights of annexing Murcia in exchange for securing the Aragonese frontier with Castile. |
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| The Dravidian preterite tense is ordinarily formed, like the present, by annexing the pronominal signs to the preterite verbal participle. |
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| In 1908, the Belgian parliament responded to the international pressure, annexing the Free State, as the campaigners had argued for. |
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| Mr Martini thanked Mr Kosmider for the constructive nature of the resolution submitted, and said he approved the idea of annexing the resolution to the budget. |
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| It's a kind of how-to for annexing the entirety of the West Bank. |
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| We are also annexing a number of rulings by the Administrative Court annulling many administrative decisions taken against the individuals who challenged them before that court. |
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| The occupying power is forbidden to move parts of its own population into the occupied territory, with the intention of changing the nature of the population or annexing or colonizing the area. |
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| The new text received broad support in both the Sixth and the Special Committees, and the Special Committee could recommend annexing it to a resolution of the General Assembly. |
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| Later that year Severus waged a short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier, annexing the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province. |
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| Fighting is their raison d'être. Russia is probably not interested in annexing the Donbas, an unattractive coal region in the south-east of Ukraine that would land it with responsibilities but no obvious benefits. |
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| He had recruited Palmyrene units into his army, including a camel unit, therefore apparently procuring Palmyrene support to his ultimate goal of annexing Charax. |
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| The Acts had the effect of annexing Wales to England and creating a single state and legal jurisdiction, commonly referred to as England and Wales. |
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| The situation remained unresolved in Central Asia for two more decades, with Britain annexing Baluchistan in 1876 and Russia annexing Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. |
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| This, and a further Act in 1542, had the effect of annexing Wales to England and creating a single state and legal jurisdiction, commonly referred to as England and Wales. |
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| During the rest of the century they moved its frontier southward to the banks of the Dore, the Worm Brook and a stream then known as the Taratur, annexing northern Ergyng. |
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| Evans, wrote that during the war the German right was committed to an annexationist program which aimed at Germany annexing most of Europe and Africa. |
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| Japan has often displayed a tin ear to South Korean sensitivities over the island, which it calls Takeshima, having acquired it in the process of annexing Korea. |
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