annexation

Examples of annexed

annexed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The tract in question had recently been annexed into the city and was surrounded on all sides by residential areas.
The new barrio coincided with the territory annexed to the town in 1614.
The children were tested individually in a separate room annexed to the classroom, in a quiet atmosphere.
Many of those travelling east came from parts of the country that had only recently been annexed.
They report that the civilian population of the annexed province has outrageously betrayed them.
The first one, defining the ignitor, the second one, defining the volume annexed to the ignitor.
However, a canoe was spotted, 'annexed,' and 'with rather less than an inch of freeboard' they set off in a southerly direction.
Not only could none of the capitals declare independence, but it would be difficult for a rival confederation to have annexed them.
It will present work in the existing network of theatres and venues, or exciting venues annexed for the occasion.
The problem with this response, however, is that the act to be annexed is an act only in a very degenerate sense.
These were the sorts of motivations that were driven by the passions - and therefore their conquest by reason became annexed to the practice of virtue.
In the heartlands as well as in the newly annexed territories, the imperial order replaced barbarity and wilderness.
First, it was a natural outcome of the growth of the bureaucracy from a structure essentially annexed to the ruler's household into an articulated network with increasing hierarchy.
It being by him removed from the common state nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men.
This is an issue which must be enshrined in the text of the agreement or in an annexed declaration.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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