He remembered vaguely that he had occasionally read of some formal annexation when a new island was discovered.

A formal annexation, transferring also the territorial sovereignty to France, seems to have been planned originally, but it was never executed.

The formal annexation of Rockall was announced by the Admiralty on 21 September 1955.

As the City has no boundaries, a formal annexation has never happened.

Moreover, the formal annexation of Alsace-Lorraine was never proclaimed.

The British allowed Darfur a measure of autonomy until formal annexation in 1916.

All three occupiers aimed at a quick formal annexation.

The Hungarians realized their formal annexation on December 16, 1941.

The formal annexation of a territory created a "province" in the modern sense of an administrative unit geographically defined.

The German government never negotiated or declared a formal annexation, however, in order to preserve the possibility of an agreement with the West.