Examples of cede

• In the absence of dual vessels, it would then seem reasonable to cede bronchial status to the collateral vessels.

• Through marriage alliances, claims to land can be kept within the kin group or might be ceded to another group.

• The confident songbird shows off by "deliberately depriving itself of information," ceding priority to the left hemisphere in the process.

• This decisionmaking capacity, ceded to me by the parents, has been considered ethically acceptable in my neonatal intensive care unit.

• In terms of methodology, the structurally-based situational approach ceded ground on two fronts.

• Clinicians recognize that in large organizations-managed care plans and hospitals-they have ceded control over the content and flow of patient data to administrators.

• By the middle of the nineteenth century, most state legislatures had passed bills ceding the responsibility of overseeing divorces to the courts.

• Coalitions allow agents to take advantage of economies of scale, without necessarily ceding authority to other agents.

• The party at the parliamentary median may share government ministries with parties to its left or right without ceding policy control.

• In performance-driven scores, the composer will often cede certain sections of the piece to the performer.

• Measures to control aggregate expenditure involved the state ceding most of its responsibilities for health care to the regions.

• Legislators have a motive to frame statutes unambiguously lest they cede too much power to subordinates.

• The basis upon which sovereign authorities exercise political power is this executive power of the law of nature ceded to them by their subjects.

• The man to whom possession was ceded has the right to the sharecropping agreement.

• Most of the responsibilities for health care have been ceded to the regions.