retrocession

The Virginia portion was given back in 1847, a process known as "retrocession".

Retrocession is the most extreme and least plausible of all options.

At the time of the retrocession forty-five years later it had 1300 residents.

The court, however, did not rule on the core constitutional matter of the retrocession.

However, the Virginia legislature did not immediately accept the retrocession offer.

By the time of the Retrocession they still had not industrialized their basically peasant economy.

A referendum on retrocession was held on September 1-2, 1846.

As I said, the Retrocession just increased the traditional divisions.

One problem with retrocession is that the state of Maryland may not want to take the District back.

This process is known as District of Columbia retrocession.

A company that accepts such retrocession business is a "retrocessionaire".

Reinsurance companies often also purchase reinsurance, a practice known as retrocession.

During the Retrocession they completely forgot the Near East.

Retrocession could also alter the idea of a separate national capital as envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

This term, over time, has become more generally applied to companies offering or requiring retrocession and other forms of reinsurance.

You talk about retrocession yet you can only retrocede something which was taken illegitimately.

All this would change on 25 October 1945 (known as Retrocession Day in Taiwan).

Virginia legislators were concerned that the people of Alexandria County had not been properly included in the retrocession proceedings.

After the retrocession of the island, they were renamed provincial normal schools before becoming provincial teachers' colleges.

Some representatives rejected the idea of retrocession entirely and concluded that the Congress lacked the constitutional authority to return the territory.

He action has been characterized by the battle for the retrocession of 40% of provincial income from the central government.

Congress passed the retrocession act on July 9, 1846, and Virginia took possession of the land on this date.

Alexandrians petitioned Virginia to take back the land it had donated to form the District; a process known as retrocession.

Members of Congress proposed retrocession because they found disenfranchisement of the District's residents to be unacceptable.

This was the situation existing when the Retrocession began, and it ended with this country as you see it now."