On the 10th President Wilson issued his famous note, prepared in response to the radical formula of the council, declaring for a peace "without annexation and without indemnities.
The annexation of Hawaii and the changed relations of the United States to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines resulting from the war, compel the prompt adoption of a maritime policy by the United States.
Opposed to this body of opinion were the official class and a small party who desired annexation to the United States.
But the League was mainly a party counterblast to the Annexation Manifesto of 1849 and soon disappeared.
Unless such a spirit be cultivated, the idea will become engrained in the public mind, that failing the connection with Great Britain annexation must ensue.
His views on clericalism he never greatly modified, but annexation to the United States he abandoned, with characteristic candour, for federation.
The fear of annexation to the United States figured likewise in the debate, but the condition of the Republic, so recently in the throes of civil war, was not such as to give rise to serious apprehension on that score.
There was so much to do in the early years of the annexation and so few to do it, that outlying tracts like the Yaw country were neglected for a time.
The disorders following the annexation extended to the creeks and rivers, and river pirates had become more daring and the necessity of a well-formed service of river police more urgent.
The Shan States, on the annexation of Upper Burma, had been swept into the net and were constituted a part of British India before accurate information had been gained of their political conditions and their relations to the King's Government.
The annexation of Upper Burma was more difficult in some ways than the annexation of the Punjab.
On theannexation of Upper Burma he had been appointed to the Commission.
A man who had given endless trouble to the troops since the annexation and made his lair on the east side of the Kyaukse district was the Setkya leader.
At the time of the annexation the Sawbwa of Kale was an old man, by name Maung Ket, incapable of administering his country.
At the time of the annexation of Upper Burma Naw Hpa was the titular Sawbwa, one of whose daughters had been espoused by King Mindon.
For forty years before the annexation it had been administered by Burmese officials, but with some regard to Shan customs and sentiment.
The Shan States, which were at the time of the annexation tributary to the Burman monarch, are situated, with some insignificant exceptions, on this plateau.
At the time of the annexation the Sawbwa of Mong Mit had died.
Up to the time of the annexation at the end of 1885, the King of Burma had exercised a real, although spasmodic and irregular control over the Shan chiefs.
The Government of India were beginning to take alarm at the heavy burden with which the annexation of the new province was loading them.
But even if annexation by a foreign power is not to follow the occupation of our lands by any considerable number of aliens, who remain aliens loyal to a foreign power, our integrity and welfare are thereby seriously disturbed.
Preliminary to annexation in past histories has often gone occupation.
The Rhenish missionaries appealed (1868) to the British government for protection, and asked for the annexation of the country.
In South Germany the Ludwigs canal was, until the annexationof Alsace-Lorraine, the only one of importance.
The first mentioned remained a separate state until its annexation to Russia in 1810; the other two were soon reunited.
Claudius, who was a native of Lyons, extended the right of Roman citizenship to many of his fellow-townsmen, gave them access to the magistracy and to the senate, and supplemented the annexation of Gaul by that of Britain.
England, Ferdinand the Catholic, and Maximilian of Austria try to prevent the annexation of Brittany by France; its heiress Anne, deserted by every one, made peace and married Charles VIII.
It persisted through all the years down to the time of the Teller amendment, in 1898, and there are many who even now regard annexation as inevitable at some future time, more or less distant.
It is either annexation or a Republic with the Amendment.
Fear of British acquisition of the island appears to have subsided about 1860, but there were in the island two groups, both relatively small, one of them working for independence, and the other for annexation to the United States.
Germany, he declared, had no annexation projects in view.
It is true that Germany--the Power which claims first attention from this point of view--has shown far greater desire to convert Africa into a German Empire than she has to effect the annexation of Australia.
Taylor had Santa Anna in front, the jealous administration and the anti-annexation party in Congress to fight behind him.
Calhoun was appointed to fill the vacancy, and the question of the admission of Texas as a State was discussed, and on the 12th of April a treaty of annexation was signed by him; and it was rejected by the Senate of the United States.
Up to the annexation of Tuscany,' said Beaumont, 'I fully approve of all that has been done.
The annexation of the Italian lands to the Kingdom of Italy had to be the consequence of the affirmation of the principles of nationality, not the reason for going to war.
A typical example is the memorandum presented by the French delegation claiming the annexation of the Saar territory.
No one had ever suggested such annexation, which certainly was a far more serious thing than the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany, as there was considerable German population in Alsace-Lorraine.
Not a word had ever been said about annexation of the Saar either in Government pronouncements or in any vote in the French Parliament, nor had it been discussed by any political party.
Since the annexation of the Neapolitan provinces to the kingdom of Italy, the Cavaliere Fiorelli has organized the system of excavations in the most masterly manner, and has made many interesting discoveries.
Lawes, gave valuable aid in the British annexation of the south-east coast of the island.
This feud with the Boers was inherited by the British government on the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877.
He directed the annexationof the Papal States in April 1808, worked to secure the abdication of Charles IV.
She felt that the proposed annexation of the Provinces to France would be almost as formidable; yet she could not resolve, frankly and fearlessly, to assume, the burthen of their protection.
The annexation and sovereignty were definitely declined.
But they were widely held; and it must at least be obvious that the prevalence of these views is quite inconsistent with the idea that Britain was deliberately following a policy of expansion and annexation in this age.
The last region in which territories remained available for European annexation consisted of the innumerable archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.
After 1884 the activity of the powers in exploration, annexation and development became more furious than ever.
Not to go beyond the present century, did we not see Russian influence steadily advancing there, until rudely checked by Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
The annexation extinguished national hopes, and while it undoubtedly established order, did so in arbitrary and oppressive fashion.
There was nothing to prevent the immediate annexationof Wales, except the single let or hindrance of the English king’s conscientiousness.
If the subjugation and annexation of Scotland had been then in his mind, the unwise proposal of some of the competitors—to divide the kingdom into three—offered him a signal opportunity of advancing his plans.
The other party nominates a man who says, "I have no hesitation in declaring that I am in favor of the immediate re-annexation of Texas to the territory and government of the United States.
Just before the Annexation a small patrol of Boers had pursued the Chief Umbeline into the very heart of Zululand.
Shepstone's chief pretexts for the Annexation were that the Transvaal could not subdue Secoecoeni, and that the Zulus threatened to overpower the Transvaal.
It will thus be seen that Shepstone's two chief reasons for the Annexation were devoid of foundation.
In order to attain this object a continual agitation was kept up at Johannesburg, so that English shareholders living far away should be prepared for the day when the Annexation would take place on Constitutional lines.
Andries Pretorius had come into the Transvaal after the Annexationof Natal, and lived there quietly, notwithstanding the price which had been put on his head after Boomplaats.
When it was represented that the Annexation was a deliberate breach of the Sand River Convention, Sir Bartle Frere replied, in 1879, that if they wished to go back to the Sand River Convention, they might just as well go back to the Creation!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annexation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
