(v. t.) To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.
(v. t.) To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.
(v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.
(v. i.) To join; to be united.
(n.) Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
(2) "We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annexe," said Hicks.
(3) Abe’s attempts to build closer ties with Russia since he took office in 2012 registered some success until Tokyo threw its weight behind G7 sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year, and increased aid to Ukraine.
(4) People attend a rally called "We are together" to support the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea to Russia at Red Square in central Moscow, 18 March, 2014.
(5) Since Israel captured and annexed the Old City, including the compound, in the 1967 war, it has also become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.
(6) He suggests Britain will then be confronted by a eurozone that will see itself as the core, and an outer ring of states working towards eventual membership, with a third group probably led by Britain in an annex outside as a matter of politics or policy.
(7) The very idea that meaningful reform of the NSA will come out of this annexed, captured, corrupted Committee is ludicrous on its face.
(8) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel , visited Moscow the day after the parade to lay a wreath at a war memorial, but she criticised Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Crimea in a joint press conference with Putin.
(9) A reason for Stepanenko’s extrication was also mooted – he and his family visited Crimea, annexed by Russia, in 2015 and did not hide the fact, protesting that it is simply part of Ukraine.
(10) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
(11) Oleg Sentsov should make new films, not count years in prison.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Oleg Sentsov sings the Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in a Russian penal colony Sentsov attracted the ire of the Russian authorities after helping to organise a campaign protesting at Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
(12) After annexing Crimea last year, Mr Putin raised the stakes by launching a conflict in the Donbass and firing up Russian nationalist sentiment.
(13) According to Sergei Markov, a Kremlin-linked analyst who has been taking part in official meetings with local politicians in Crimea, the initial plan was not to annex Crimea, and the final call to do so was taken only a fortnight ago.
(14) But as the majority of Russian troops have now moved away from the border with Ukraine, the prospect of a Russian invasion or a Crimea-style annexation of the territory is unlikely.
(15) The local government in Crimea is preparing for a referendum on Sunday which could lead to Russia annexing the region.
(16) Indeed, it was only at the end of his reign that king William I succeeded to persuade the local and provincial authorities of the dire necessity of establishing a maternity clinic with annexed school for midwives.
(17) One short-notice exercise was used to move Russian forces to annex Crimea in February 2014 and others were employed to support separatists in eastern Ukraine and to stage a military build-up on Ukraine’s border.
(18) First, Anastasia Myskina carried off the French Open title four weeks ago, and now Sharapova, the thirteenth seed, gloriously and unexpectedly annexes the Wimbledon crown.
(19) The annexation led to the worst crisis between Russia and the west since the cold war, and sanctions introduced by the US and European Union mean Visa and Mastercard do not work in Crimea, leaving a mainly cash-based economy, while major Russian banks and chains have not entered the peninsula, fearing that to do so will lead to western sanctions.
(20) Among a "toolbox" of actions under consideration are: • full or partial annulment of the Oslo Accords, under which the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established • withholding tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the PA • cancellation of permits for thousands of Palestinian labourers to work in Israel • withdrawal of travel privileges for senior PA officials • acceleration of building programmes in West Bank settlements • unilateral annexation of the main Jewish settlement blocks.
Conquer
Definition:
(v. t.) To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish.
(v. t.) To subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc.
(v. t.) To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace.
(v. i.) To gain the victory; to overcome; to prevail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Efforts made to measure the successful immunologic conquest of diphtheria are compared and contrasted with efforts being made to conquer diseases of allergic origin.
(2) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(3) How can we as a community of teachers have others value our work and endeavour to ensure curriculum in classrooms is conquered?
(4) They were hoping to escape attacks from yet another invading army; this time the forces of Khosrau II, the last great Persian king before the Muslims conquered Iran.
(5) Mountaineering officials say nine Nepalese guides have reached the peak of Mount Everest , becoming the first climbers in two years to conquer the world’s highest mountain following two years of disasters.
(6) After they renamed themselves IOU their break came when one member's mother brought them to the attention of Walsh, who was managing Boyzone , the Irish five-piece who signed to Polydor Records and conquered the charts after an A&R man at RCA passed up the chance to sign them.
(7) Walker replied that his strategy was "divide and conquer", an indication, once more, that his public pronouncements diverge from private commitments.
(8) The results indicate that Conquer Mixture may be toxic to the gastrointestinal tract and suggest that a re-evaluation of the therapeutic usefulness of the drug in the management of malaria is warranted.
(9) Franklin returned the Sony Reader, for ebooks, he was given by Random House, preferring to read submissions on paper, and while he thinks Apple and its competitors will "probably conquer the world eventually", for the moment he is more worried about how to keep bookshops afloat.
(10) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
(11) You’ve conquered the Welsh Matterhorn – and no supplementary oxygen, months of training or qualified guide were required!
(12) While Obama withdrew the vast majority of US forces from Iraq in 2011 and claimed credit for it, he restarted and slowly escalated the US commitment to Iraq once the Islamic State conquered Mosul in June 2014.
(13) With a conquered city at her back, she may actually use a ship to sail back to Westeros now.
(14) To learn about the way diseases have been conquered in the past we have, therefore, to look at mortality.
(15) While local opponents of the scheme welcomed him as a conquering hero, his intervention also provoked a storm of criticism from architects, including Rogers, who called for a public inquiry into the constitutional validity of the prince's role in the democratic planning process.
(16) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
(17) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(18) And so I say to this Congress and this country, something that runs deep in your character and is woven in your history, we conquer our fear of the future through our faith in the future.
(19) In the past 24 hours, about 15,000 civilians - all women, children and the elderly - have been 'ethnically cleansed' from territory just conquered.
(20) We should … adopt some precautionary measure – learning from [how] mountains [are managed] in developed countries where they adopt measures to avoid avalanches by putting some kind of wood or some concrete so that it helps make it safe.” All those attempting the classic South Col route – followed by Sir Edmund Hllary’s team, who first conquered Everest in 1953 – have to pass through the icefall to reach the upper slopes of the mountain.