The greatest empire the world had ever seen sent a massive army to annex the Boer republics.
Tbilisi says Moscow has long supported the rebels in South Ossetia and wants to annex the region.
The second option is for Israel to annex Judea and Samaria, complete with its hostile Arab population.
Nor, for that matter, is Israel's threat to annex further territory the menace it is made out to be.
Democrat James Polk wanted to annex Texas, a policy the Whig candidate Henry Clay warned would provoke war with Mexico.
Buster McCulley's parents are buried in an old cemetery on the land Mr. Carver is proposing to annex from Tennessee.
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It wants to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied territories and exchange them for land in Israel where Arab Israelis live.
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So long as Mr Barak remains in charge, he is likely to annex only the Jewish settlements that he is anyhow determined to keep.
He might offer a more generous land swap in exchange for the blocks of settlements near the old border which he wants to annex to Israel.
Well, the alternative of course is to annex Judea and Samaria, but we haven't had any discussion of that possible alternative for the past thirty years.
Georgia alleges Russia is out to annex its territory by openly supporting two separatist regions of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, both of which want closer ties with Moscow.
The demand for restoration of independent statehood came on the 50th anniversary of the Soviet-Nazi non-aggression pact, which included secret protocols to annex the Baltic states to the USSR.
Mr Barak, unwilling to uproot all the 200, 000-odd settlers in the West Bank, wants to annex three blocks of settlements close to the pre-1967 border, leaving some 50 smaller ones inside the Palestinian state.
Israel has sought to ring-fence East Jerusalem from any territorial retreat, and it hopes to annex the largest settlement blocs on the east side of the Green Line, which house a large majority of settlers.
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But by the mid-1800s North America was in common use for mere geography, and by roughly 1900 the sheer weight of the much enlarged United States had enabled it to annex America as its own.
Last September, ahead of the UN general assembly, Walsh authored Congressional Resolution 394 supporting Israel's right to annex Judea and Samaria in the event that the Palestinians asked the UN to recognize a Palestinian state outside the framework of a peace treaty with Israel.
Members have been falling over themselves to introduce supposedly pro-Israel legislation, including a resolution endorsing Israel's right to annex the West Bank - proposed by a Republican - and a move to cut off military aid to any country supporting the Palestinian bid for UN membership, sponsored by a Democrat.
Mr Mitchell's proposed terms of reference for new talks would have both sides accepting the 1967 border as the basis of a final accord, with land swaps enabling Israel to annex the largest settlements closest to the old border, while the Palestinians would add equivalent tracts to their own state.
For those with a short memory or an eclectic knowledge of recent history it would have been instructive to mention at least once that the 1967 war was initiated by Israel's Arab neighbours with the explicit intent to annex all of Israel and drive its Jewish inhabitants into the sea.
Section 201(d) of the Implementation Act authorizes the President to take such action as may be necessary in implementing the tariff-rate quotas set forth in Appendix I to the General Notes to the Schedule of the United States to Annex 3.3 of the Agreement to ensure that imports of agricultural goods do not disrupt the orderly marketing of commodities in the United States.
For example, the preliminary report gives significance to the catastrophic incident annex to the National Response Plan.
When he proposed to fully fund an annex to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, certain activists raised a ruckus.
Recently it became clear that Westminster no longer had the power to add a new annex to the protocol.
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The change does not allow for entirely new grammar schools, but it would allow existing schools to open an annex in Sevenoaks to cater for the demand.
She turned, her eyes filling with tears, and walked back to the annex.
Mr. Hicks described a frantic scene in Tripoli as diplomats rushed to destroy classified information at the compound as they prepared to withdraw to an annex nearby.
It goes on to say, "the above Election Committee is the one referred to in Annex I, " -- that is, the same one that picks the chief executive.
It will also allow Bolivia to operate an annex of its navy school, which to date has been limited to rivers and Lake Titicaca.
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