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- The Qing dynasty forced Russia to hand over disputed territory in Ili in the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881), in what was widely seen by the west as a diplomatic victory for the Qing.
- There is agreement among some Christian theologians that Elijah appears to hand over the responsibility of the prophets to Jesus as the woman by the well said to Jesus "I perceive thou art a prophet."
- Normally, the translator has between five and seven days to hand over the translation of a 90-minute programme.
- Ingush aul Kek was completely burned when the Ingush refused to hand over Zelimkhan.
- The Kentish rebels had assembled a wide-ranging list of people whom they wanted the King to hand over for execution.
- By 2004, Nigeria had failed to meet the deadline to hand over the peninsula.
- By 1490 the opposition of Tyrolean nobles compelled Sigismund to hand over the rulership to Frederick's son Archduke Maximilian I, who later succeeded his father as Holy Roman Emperor.
- It has pledged to ensure that any EU military capability must supplement and not supplant British national defence and NATO, and that it is not in the British interest to hand over security to any supranational body.
- Seeing this, the Swazis refused to hand over to the Boers any spoils from the battle, thereafter leaving and returning to Swaziland.
- During the early 1890s, the British government decided to hand over the Bechuanaland Protectorate to the British South Africa Company.
- or on the contrary do they want to hand over the fate of their future to the impossible omnipotence of a material state without extraterrestrial ideals, without religion, and without God.
- He also promised to hand over to the Church all income from any vacant sees which had been flowing into the imperial treasury.
- The PDS requires farmers in agricultural regions to hand over a portion of their production to the government and then reallocates the surplus to urban regions, which cannot grow their own foods.
- The inquisitors generally preferred not to hand over heretics to the secular arm for execution if they could persuade the heretic to repent: "Ecclesia non novit sanguinem (The Church knows not Blood)".
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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