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Recent Examples of annexation
But amid Trump’s return, the radicals have their eyes on bigger prizes, such as the annexation of the West Bank—which the Palestinians claim for their future state—and are loath to forgo such opportunities.
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Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Addressing reporters in the Capitol, Jeffries noted that Trump’s election victory in November was largely a referendum on the high cost of certain consumer staples, not the annexation of Greenland or the Panama Canal, as Trump proposed earlier in the week.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
In the year of her birth, Japan signed an agreement with President Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary of state that averted conflict with the United States in exchange for Washington recognizing Japan’s annexation of the Korean Peninsula.
—Martin Fackler, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
Then there’s outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who flew south as Trump reignited talk of tariffs and annexation.
—Zach Everson, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Addressing reporters in the Capitol, Jeffries noted that Trump’s election victory in November was largely a referendum on the high cost of certain consumer staples, not the annexation of Greenland or the Panama Canal, as Trump proposed earlier in the week.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
In the year of her birth, Japan signed an agreement with President Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary of state that averted conflict with the United States in exchange for Washington recognizing Japan’s annexation of the Korean Peninsula.
—Martin Fackler, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
Then there’s outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who flew south as Trump reignited talk of tariffs and annexation.
—Zach Everson, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for annexation
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In January, Ramaphosa signed a bill into law that sets forth new guidelines for land expropriation, including enabling the government to expropriate land without compensation in some cases.—
Alejandra Jaramillo,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Any land expropriations would still also have to go through South Africa's independent courts.—
Kate Bartlett,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
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The subway takeover is flanked by the launch of a one-of-a-kind art book conceived as a box with 30 Polaroid photographs of the same subjects, paying homage to Maripol’s signature art form.—
Martino Carrera,
WWD,
17 Feb. 2025
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The rapid advance into the city comes less than three weeks after the rebels claimed the takeover of Goma, the largest city and capital of the neighboring North Kivu province on January 27.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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Hydrogen using power from a plant that has recently added carbon capture and sequestration can also qualify.—
Daniel Moore,
Axios,
3 Jan. 2025
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Today, scientists have discovered a way to boost the sequestration of atmospheric carbon through a new experiment by spraying fine clay particles on microalgae blooms—particularly Rhodomonas salina.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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One closely watched legal issue involves the president’s ability to withhold funding authorized by Congress, a practice known as impoundment.—
Lindsay Whitehurst,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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And then there's the legal debate over impoundment — i.e., whether the president is legally obligated to spend money that Congress appropriates.—
Nathaniel Rakich,
ABC News,
4 Feb. 2025
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The bill is a preemption that puts in place one-size fits all zoning in our current, existing neighborhoods.—
John Diers,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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In addition to championing property cuts and other forms of tax relief, Speaker Burrows also introduced and passed the Regulatory Consistency Act, a preemption bill that lawmakers in Florida, Tennessee, and other states now see as a model for reining in regulatory costs.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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It is funded outside of the congressional appropriations process, and its funding comes from the Fed.—
Laurel Wamsley,
NPR,
8 Feb. 2025
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Redirecting funds from inefficient government spending in non-defense, non-veterans and non-homeland security discretionary appropriations accounts.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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And so is having people around you who can argue with you and question your assumptions.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
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Our analysis also makes some other conservative assumptions given the policy’s uncertainty.—
Emily Badger,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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Although law enforcement seizures of illicit fentanyl have surged in recent years, there’s also some evidence that the drug supply is changing again.—
Deidre McPhillips,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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The share of frisks and fuller searches complying with the ruling — and the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures — were lower than the stop numbers.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Annexation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annexation. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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