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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Prussia smashed France in 1870, annexing critical French territory for security reasons, but that sowed the seeds for the First World War.
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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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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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.
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.
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?
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