cessions's Usage Examples:

In his professional capacity, his attitude was correct enough; and, indeed, his anxiety for the French alliance and for the marriage between Elizabeth and Anjou led him to suggest concessions to Anjou's Catholic susceptibilities which came strangely from so staunch a Puritan.

Acting as a bedcover is a Mortlake tapestry sumpter cloth, which was woven for Ralph Montagu 's ambassadorial processions to Versailles.

Malcolm thus set the example of advance to the western system of royal successions, while in Crinan's lay tenure of the abbacy of Dunkeld we see the habit of appropriating ecclesiastical revenues which again became so common about a century before the Reformation.

the processions of the Thesmophoria, and that of the Great Dionysia), and of the mysteries (e.

All work was to be suspended that all might join in the processions.

Albrecht had been elected at the age of twenty-four to a see already impoverished by frequent successions and payments of annates to Rome.

At present funeral processions survive in general only in the country districts; the processional cross or crucifix is still carried.

In spite of occasional secessions which brought severe punishment upon the island (1 453, 1 479), the rule of the Giustiniani was not abolished till 1566.

The Labour unions were able to secure in these years many concessions both as to hours and wages.

In Germany the concessions made to the pope and the reservations maintained by him in the matter of taxes and benefices were deemed excessive, and the prolonged discontent which resulted was one of the causes of the success of the Lutheran Reformation.