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How to use the word annexation in a Sentence?

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Ignorance is the dogma of darkness ''but the annexation of a good faculty allowing light on the path. French Version L'ignorance est le dogme de l'obscurité'' mais l'annexion d'une bonne faculté permettant la lumière sur le sentier.

Leger Merlin Figama

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10 months ago

31 foreign government officials who have acted to support Russia's purported annexation of the Crimea region of The US and thereby threatened or violated Ukraine's sovereignty.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The scale, pace and strategic nature of Israel’s actions on settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about what is actually happening on the ground. ... It is de facto annexation, this is not something that I, or in my view this house, says lightly. We are the first EU state to do so. But it reflects the huge concern we have about the intent of the actions and of course, their impact.

Foreign Affairs

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

By and large, this is seen as a sign of the gradual decline in the importance of the Palestinian cause among Arab regimes, the UAE hoped to get some credit for caring about the fate of the Palestinians, but since the deal only brought a temporary halt to Israeli annexation plans, the Palestinians have harshly criticized the UAE for betraying them.

John Glaser

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

With Germany’s financial situation worsening by the day, the Nazi leadership in Berlin was keen to forge ahead with its annexation of Czechoslovakia and its domestic pogroms against Jews. The state treasury needed more money. Despite various accounting tricks, the government was just barely avoiding bankruptcy; if nothing was done, Germany’s financial problems would quickly be laid bare. The only hope was to go on the offensive.

Gotz Aly

added by Normando
3 years ago

There is clearly ongoing tension between the U.S. and Russia, in space but also on the ground. The Russian annexation of Crimea, its support for little green men in eastern Ukraine, its pressure on Georgia and the Baltic states, all indicate that its relations with the West will remain tense for the foreseeable future, space reflects terrestrial tensions, and it is likely that there will be further tests of new Russian weapons, as they would want to neutralize the American space advantage in any conflict.

Dean Cheng

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's about annexation, it's about apartheid, moving to the de jure annexation of settlements is something that was given the green light yesterday.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Even Netanyahu's main rivals believe that any Palestinian entity that is established in the West Bank should be completely encircled by Israel, having no border with Jordan, the annexation plan shouldn't be dismissed as election bluster. If reelected, Netanyahu will be under tremendous pressure to implement it.

Nathan Thrall

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is actually about the Kremlin's preparations for the next step of aggression against our state - the annexation of the Ukrainian Donbass or the creation of a Russian enclave in Ukraine.

Petro Poroshenko

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Sunday's outrageous violation of sovereign Ukrainian territory is part of a pattern of Russian behavior that includes the purported annexation of Crimea and abuses against countless Ukrainians in Crimea.

Nikki Haley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I look at the latest developments, including Helsinki, where it might have been that one president of our neighboring country (Putin) was pressuring the U.S. president for concessions. But I have not seen any concessions, neither as regards the annexation of Crimea nor the war in Ukraine, none of the voices that were appearing beforehand as hypothetically possible - concessions by the United States - have materialized. So I don't see where he (Trump) has made any significant concessions.

Mateusz Morawiecki

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Even though (the coalition) doesn't want elections, there's a growing sense that elections may be around the corner in any case, and in that case the Jewish Home will press on with the annexation of Ma'ale Adumim and will attack whatever arrangements Netanyahu has with Trump, it'll go from bad to worse from the point of view of the stability of the coalition.

Chemi Shalev

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In spring we will discuss the question how to deal with the sanctions that we decided to impose after Russia's annexation of Crimea, given the current situation, they will remain in place.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have had to witness a shifting of borders in Europe, the annexation of Crimea and the questioning of territorial integrity – a core part of Europe's post-war model. The apparent right of whoever is strongest trumped the strength of law, russia has breached and is still breaching international law...neighboring states are suddenly no longer partner countries but spheres of influence.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are already in one regime, the government doesn't plan to stop this de facto annexation and the Palestinian Authority has no strategy to stop it.

Menachem Klein

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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