(v. t.) To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour and, sotto voce, some Lib Dems, counter that Clegg did not need to cede this much ground – there is no clear evidence that the markets will impose higher interest rates if the deficit is not tackled more quickly than Labour planned.
(2) It’s impossible to automate fully the process of separating truth from falsehood, and it’s dubious to cede such control to for-profit media giants.
(3) The Hashd al-Shaabi, a conglomerate of primarily Shia militias that has played a key role in ousting Isis from cities such as Tikrit, appeared to take a backseat in the liberation of Ramadi, ceding the task primarily to the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, local police, the Iraqi army and a small group of Sunni tribesmen, backed by US-led airstrikes.
(4) Cadbury became the world's largest confectionery company in 2003 after buying up a number of gum brands, including Trident and Stride, but ceded the number one spot to Mars when it took over gum maker Wrigley last year.
(5) In short, a durable, successful currency union requires some ceding of national sovereignty."
(6) In his interview, Burnham made clear his frustration that Labour had ceded economic credibility to the Tories after allowing the deficit to “get too high” in 2004-05.
(7) That is not what we heard in response.” Activists with Black Lives Matter have disrupted Democratic campaign events before, most recently when presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ceded the microphone to protests in Seattle before eventually walking off the stage.
(8) Fitch also raised concerns that it could lose customers after the intervention of hedge funds, which are forcing the mutual Co-op Group of funeral homes, supermarkets and pharmacies to cede control of the bank.
(9) On Monday, after months of intense talks with two US hedge funds, the Co-op Group – which also owns pharmacies, grocers and funeral homes – was forced to cede majority control of its bank as part of its battle to plug a £1.5bn capital shortfall and stave off nationalisation.
(10) Robert Lewandowski takes Bayern Munich eight clear with win over Köln Read more After Griezmann curled his free-kick over the wall and just inside the post, the 2014 champions were content to cede Sporting the ball and lock down their defence.
(11) IoT devices offer new ways for us to take control of our lives, but also paradoxically cede that same control.
(12) Gbagbo's refusal to cede power after losing a November poll sent the west African country into a spiral of violence.
(13) He had started just before noon on Wednesday; he finally finished speaking and ceded the floor at about 12.40am local time.
(14) Israeli peace activists say the intention is to solidify Israel's claim to all of Jerusalem and to minimise the amount of the city ceded to an independent Palestine.
(15) While liberals ceded ground, the NRA and its allies have expanded gun rights in almost every sphere.
(16) This requires, however, that privileged voices step down to make way for minorities, ceding positions of authority and power.
(17) When neighbourhood services fail national politicians still get the blame, which makes them reluctant to cede control, especially financial control.
(18) While the UK government proposed maintaining administration but transferring sovereignty to China, this idea and any other plan that did not cede full control to Beijing, was rejected.
(19) They are also expected to lose more than 300 councillors in England – and fear as many as 600 losses – ceding control of almost every council they are defending.
(20) Although the US state department said it was "encouraged" that Saleh had ceded negotiating authority to his deputy, there is as yet no sign that either the US or the Saudis are ready or willing to force his departure from the scene.
Supersede
Definition:
(v. t.) To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
(v. t.) To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.
(v. t.) To make void, inefficacious, or useless, by superior power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to render unnecessary; to suspend; to stay.
(v. t.) To omit; to forbear.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was superseded by a new version earlier this year.
(2) At higher [Ca2+]i, the effect of K+ channels on Em is superseded by opening of nonselective cation channels, producing depolarization.
(3) The cephalic signal can be superseded by juvenile hormone, whose presence is necessary for each follicle to become vitellogenic.
(4) In an age of economic crisis, the tacit assumption of the governing class is that political reform is superseded by the growing demand for security.
(5) Radiological studies of Willis' circle morphology are mainly performed in search of intracerebral aneurysms, and for this purpose digital imaging has not superseded conventional radiology.
(6) This extracellular action may supersede the action of collagenase and the activity of these different enzymes would thus be regulated by changes in the nature of this microenvironment.
(7) Indeed, by the mid-17th century, Caravaggism was already out of favour in Rome and had been superseded by a Raphaelesque classicism, practised most gracefully by Annibale Carracci.
(8) In spite of his life seeming superficially great, in spite of all the praise and accolades, in spite of all the loving friends and family, there is a predominant voice in the mind of an addict that supersedes all reason and that voice wants you dead.
(9) During the period under review the Phemister procedure was replaced by percutaneous epiphysiodesis, and orthoroentgenogram was superseded by computed tomography (CT) scanning.
(10) Indeed, by analogy with anti-hypertensive therapy, enzyme inhibitors could eventually supersede receptor antagonists for the treatment of acid-related diseases.
(11) Autoregulation graduates to wingless independence, but is transient, and is superseded by an engrailed-independent mode of maintenance.
(12) Early excision-graft of burned hands seems to have totally superseded the conventional method of progressive detorsion often with late grafting.
(13) Graphene is claimed by some as an innovation that will prove as revolutionary as the silicon chip, or even plastics, both of which it may supersede.
(14) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
(15) If you are in this position, your rights also supersede what are commonly known as "squatters' rights".
(16) Streptomycin undoubtedly will be improved upon and superseded by some other agent in the future, giving us better control of this disease and possibly enabling us to eradicate it.
(17) The application of this combination of techniques supersedes the traditional approaches (gel filtration on polydextran gels, electrophoresis) in specificity and speed.
(18) People and companies are entitled to acquire and hold private assets, but there are times – as in the run-up to the Olympics, as in the period of urban reconstruction after the second world war – when the public good must supersede the rights of those who wish to retain and profit from private assets.
(19) It is designed as an objective system--superseding former weighting processes, which were influenced by ambition, prestige, prejudice and narrow politics--and has sufficient flexibility to accommodate both the anticipated and the unforeseen.
(20) The principle that the best management is resection and exteriorisation of the ends, which was developed in the early 1970s, has been superseded by the realisation that resection and primary anastomosis can be safe in a well-resuscitated infant in whom the bowel ends appear viable.