| At midnight, 30 June 1997, Hong Kong was retroceded to PRC sovereignty, an event witnessed by millions around the world via a televised Sino-British ceremony in Hong Kong. |
| It's possible that Congress could retrocede all or most of the District to Maryland, just as it retroceded the Virginia part of the District in the 1840s to Virginia. |
| This latter was retroceded for a payment after political pressure from Russia, France and Germany, the Triple Intervention. |
| The problem was that the retroceded business was often ceded back into the London market and passed eventually back to the originating reinsurer. |
| In 1846, Arlington County and the City of Alexandria were retroceded back to Virginia. |
| Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era. |
