Sentence examples for colonies from inspiring English sources

We might interpret it to mean we're all in this together; every state, every individual, is part of a united operation built from 13 colonies with a vision.

Coffee farmers and their families are supposed to benefit from what are called partnership agreements between the EU and its member states' former colonies.

You can also observe the colonies of penguins, albatrosses and elephant seals that occupy the islands.

There is nothing new, of course, about the Man Booker list featuring novelists from the former colonies.

The family moved house every two years, mainly through the French colonies that would become Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Djibouti.

Here were suppurating sticks of greasepaint in shades nine and five (when applied together in a thick orange paste they were supposed to give a "fleshy" tone to skin but in fact made everyone on stage look as if they were on the verge of a thrombosis); dried-up tubs of cold cream; rotting sponges with thriving colonies of bacteria.

Backup colonies, insurance populations, or captive breeding troupes – whatever your preferred term – have increasingly become the norm in amphibian conservation.

With 14-15,000 prisoners and 17 penal colonies, this is one of the largest penal complexes in Europe.

The law was first put on the statute books of more than 50 British colonies in the 19th century.

The CDC was set up in 1948 to promote economic development in Britain's colonies.

These carriages, named after the Tsarist prime minister who introduced them in 1906, have been used for over a century to transport prisoners to penal colonies, many in the remote geographical margins.