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Last month, the government took over the camp from its Kurdish administrators, who had long run it, as Kurdish forces ceded territory and Damascus extended its control across swathes of Syria's northeast.

From Barron's

The capital-formation function has been ceded to the private markets, with initial public offerings increasingly an avenue for early private investors and insiders to “monetize” their holdings rather than just raise new money.

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The capital-formation function has been ceded to the private markets, with initial public offerings increasingly an avenue for early private investors and insiders to “monetize” their holdings rather than just raise new money.

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The region once belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire but was ceded to Italy as part of a First World War settlement.

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The decades-old treaty that ceded U.S. control of the canal to Panama bans the involvement of foreign governments or state-run firms.

From The Wall Street Journal