The minute he died, the Church redoubled its campaign of annexing this revered man.
Although annexing has tripled the city's size, there are only 190 more residents than when the city was founded.
Southward, Putin invaded Georgia, annexing 20 percent of its territory in the two enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Since demographics made annexing the West Bank unfeasible for Israel, some form of Palestinian self-government always seemed an inevitability.
They include Israel annexing up to 4% of the West Bank in exchange for an equivalent chunk of Israel.
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On the other side, annexing Judea and Samaria holds unmistakable advantages for Israel.
Prussia smashed France in 1870, annexing critical French territory for security reasons, but that sowed the seeds for the First World War.
After the 1967 war, Israel reunited the city, annexing its eastern part.
Roosevelt, McKinley, and the other proponents of an American imperialism insisted that by annexing other countries, Americans would, in McKinley's words, "civilize and Christianize" them.
The Super Falcons, the country's female national team, were also given cash rewards for their annexing of the African Women's Championship title in 2004 and 2006.
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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.
To their credit, the Whigs were harshly critical of the war even after it was begun, and many Whigs opposed annexing the land that became the American Southwest.
There is the annexing combined with a process where essentially they are presenting to the world -- subject to international consultation and then analysis -- exactly what are these steps.
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"Only when the nuclear shield for self-defence is held fast, will it be possible to shatter the US imperialists' ambition for annexing the Korean Peninsula by force, " the report added.
In two small working groups, Track 2A participants put forth, discussed at length, and concurred upon recommendations to be submitted to the Forum's Drafting Committees for annexing to the Declaration.
However, Palestinian leaders are worried that Mr Sharon will use his pull-out plan as a cover for retaining large chunks of the West Bank (and even annexing some of them).
In 1983, Mr. Gadhafi took sides in a Chadian civil conflict, effectively annexing a thin strip of desert at the very north of Chad with the help of mercenaries from Mali.
That is the justification it gave for annexing the western half of the island of New Guinea in 1963, even though its inhabitants are Melanesian not Malay, animists and Christians, not Muslims.
Yasser Arafat could unilaterally declare a Palestinian state, but this would be seen as a hostile move by Israel which has said it would respond by annexing parts of the West Bank.
Having at first advocated annexing all the lands captured in 1967, he was soon pushing to give the Sinai peninsula back to Egypt, and became an early proponent of ceding sections of the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians.
Isn't it also true that after World War I, the British perceived nationalist feelings in the area (Egypt and Sudan), so drew up a project to split the country by annexing the predominantly Black South to Uganda while keeping the northern "condominium" Arab and Muslim?
Last weekend, as the Americans struggled to unfreeze the talks, the Israeli cabinet gave initial approval to a plan that expands Jerusalem's municipal borders, partly by including (though not annexing) two Jewish settlements east and north of the city and the West Bank land between them and the city (see article).
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