The destruction of Corinth ( 146 BC ) brought Sicyon an acquisition of territory and the presidency over the Isthmian games; yet in Cicero's time it had fallen deep into debt.
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The U . S . victory resulted in acquisition of territory that eventually became all or parts of the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and New Mexico.
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The acquisition of the Duchy of Westphalia, formerly owned by the Archbishop of Cologne, was significant, as were the acquisition of territories from the Archbishop of Mainz and the Bishop of Worms.
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Wavell defined Operation Brevity's main objectives as the acquisition of territory from which to launch a further planned offensive toward Tobruk, and the depletion of German and Italian forces in the region.
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He served as President of the Vermont Whig Convention in 1847, which passed resolutions opposing the Mexican-American War and the acquisition of territory by conquest, and in favor of the Wilmot Proviso.
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The preable reaffirmed the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, and the need to enable the Palestinian people to exercise sovereignty and to achieve independence in their State, Palestine,
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He repeated Vatican policy on the Middle East, calling for " the banning of acquisition of territory by force " and supporting " the right of peoples to self-determination ."
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Echoing Schlesinger, Forrest McDonald wrote that " the dynamics of the tension between federal and state authority changed abruptly during the late 1840s " as a result of the acquisition of territory in the Mexican War.
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These along with his notorious cruelties ( such as the torture death of war with Persia brought about the acquisition of territory in the Caucasus, although Russia surrendered those gains after Peter's death in 1725.
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"' United Nations General Assembly resolutions taken on the matter, the Council reaffirmed that the acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible and deplored the failure of Israel to comply with the General Assembly resolutions.
