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• n  the act of ceding
• v  give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
• v  relinquish possession or control over

• Even in the calmest of times, the transfer of presidential power is a tricky maneuver, especially when it involves one party ceding the office to another.
• In a surprise press conference in early July, Palin announced that she would step down on July 26, ceding the governor's mansion to Lieut.
• Surprisingly, did not talk much about "change," virtually ceding the dominant issue of the race.

• cession
• concede
• yield
• cede
• grant
• surrender
• deliver
• give up

News & Articles

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• Drones Are Used For Domestic Surveillance, FBI Director Admits
  Not sure if this one fits with the "fairness doctrine" or the "inconvenience" paradigm (where the government is here to protect you in exchange for ceding all those pesky constitutional amendments), but moments ago yet another "conspiracy theory" become fact when the FBI director Robert Mueller admitted to the domestic use of drones for surveillance purposes. From RT : The FBI uses drones for ...
  June 19, 2013 - Zero Hedge
• The RAV4 EV is no Tesla in Toyota clothing
  Just about every automaker has an electric vehicle in its lineup now, from the Nissan Leaf to the soon-to-be-released BMW i3 , but among this crop of quiet cars there is only one electric SUV. The Toyota RAV4 EV came about as tribute from Tesla Motors, in recompense for Toyota ceding its Fremont, Calif., manufacturing digs. I think Tesla got the best end of that deal. However, the RAV4 EV ...
  June 19, 2013 - CNET

Quotes

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• John Brumby in The Age
  A billion dollars on new bureaucracy, intrusion, rights of entry on the farms, open slather in terms of water trading, the ceding of state constitutional rights - we can't agree to all of those things,Mr Brumby told reporters today.
• Bill Nelson in Washington Post
  Nelson, who supports the waiver, said he considers it possible that no agreement will be reached and that as of 2011 Americans will have no way to get to the space station -- leaving it to "degrade and burn up on reentry, or with us ceding it to...