Examples of ceded

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

• 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.

• 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.

• When they ceded asset management to family members, some older people expected that these practices would continue.

• Before the scientific voice was ceded to its technocratic variant, other, less restrictive options were available.

• This alone could guarantee the paralysis that stayed the hand of authority, and ceded the initiative to rebels.

• Recognizing imperial reluctance to go even this far, the governor limited the land to be made available to settlers by confining it within the ' ceded ' territory.

• Khubz, the powerful idiom of the past, ceded to the idiom of the present: the vote.

• Executives with careers in sales ceded firm leadership to finance officers because finance increasingly became an important tool for stabilizing cash flows in large, multidivisional corporations.

• There can be no disenfranchisement; the vote, once it is ceded, cannot be taken away.

• That new right has been acquired because we have ceded another right.