5 sentences with 'annex'
Example sentences and phrases with the word annex and other words derived from it.
• « From the late 19th century, Japan began a period of expansion that saw it annex territories from the island of Formosa to Sakhalin, Korea, Manchuria and much of China. The nation where the Sun originated became the Empire of the Rising Sun. »
• « American politicians, aware of the bitter debates over Missouri that had led to talk of disunion and war, were reluctant to annex Texas or even to recognise it as a sovereign nation. »
• « In this climate of opinion, voters elected James K. Polk, a white slaveholder from the United States, in 1844. Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he promised to annex Texas as a new slave state and take Oregon. »
• « The small but vocal anti-slavery faction condemned the decision to go to war, arguing that Polk had deliberately provoked hostilities so that the United States could annex more slave territory. »
• « These unsanctioned military adventures were not part of official U.S. foreign policy; U.S. citizens simply formed private armies to forcibly annex new lands without government approval. »