annexation

While the film adaptation’s political themes are toned down, the original musical focused on the dark atmosphere of the Nazi annexation of Austria and the Von Trapp family’s struggle for freedom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

But even a hypothetical mass annexation has a way of setting off a frenzy.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

A top UN official has warned that these amount to "gradual, de facto annexation."

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

Though geopolitical strategists aren’t willing to rule it out entirely, they see a military annexation of Greenland as highly improbable.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

Hence when Japan sent troops to Korea and annexed it in 1910, Japanese military leaders celebrated the annexation as “the restoration of the legitimate arrangement of antiquity.”

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"Ukraine is proposing a victory not just in this war but a victory over aggression, annexations, deportations over the catastrophe of genocide, anywhere throughout the world," he said.

From Reuters ● May 14, 2023

South Korea said it did not recognise the annexations, adding that Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial security and independence must be protected.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2022

Arab allies took a wait-and-see approach, but Jordan warned against hasty annexations and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan harshly criticized the plan and the lack of regional opposition to it.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2020

Henry Clay led most Whigs to decline all annexations.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The park became part of Chicago during the 1889 annexations, but otherwise, Olmsted saw, little had changed.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson