cede

Preposition: of

• control: This ceding of control over the camera equipment and documentation process enabled the passengers to participate more fully in the construction of the video.
• competence: Furthermore, public opinion is opposed to any ceding of competence by Parliament in the field of immigration.

Object

• sovereignty: As for ceding full sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza, this is doubly wrong.
• territory: The ensuing Treaty of Paris in 1763 ceded all French territories in northeast America to the British.
• ground: Others on the Left have expressed doubts, fearing he is ceding too much ground to the Right in the attempt to get elected.
• control: The Ottoman Sultan ceded control of Cyprus to Britain in 1878.
• power: But what he really did was cede more power to Hoover as his price for doing so.
• island: The Chinese were forced to cede the island to the British in 1842 following their defeat in the First Opium War.

Preposition: by

treaty: It withheld foreign conquest until 1815 when it was ceded by treaty to the British.

Modifying Another Word

• formally: Some years later, Lothian was formally ceded to Kenneth II.
• finally: By the peace of Paris, 1763, the whole of New France was finally ceded to Great Britain.
• not: However, even an antiquated social order does not cede its place to a new order without resistance.
• willingly: Many societies facing insecurity have willingly ceded power to a centralized force through a desire for stability.
• then: It was then ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht in July 1713.
• also: In 1814, following the Napoleonic Wars, France also ceded Tobago to Britain.