Sentence examples for colonies for from inspiring English sources

Overcrowded and underfunded, they often served as penal colonies for uncooperative teachers.

Manuel Castilho, a Lisbon dealer at Olympia, had several antiques made in the Portuguese colonies for export.

The bungalow colonies, for example, were not just clusters of cottages around a lawn but a distinct culture.

The survey offered the latest evidence of a mysterious disorder that has been destroying bee colonies for seven years.

Laporte got closer than most when he singled out the former North African colonies for his attack.

Uganda has been prepared better than most African colonies for nationhood.

(Europe's former colonies, for instance, get special access to the EU's markets for their bananas).

Some scholars distinguish between colonies for settlement and colonies for economic exploitation.

She would build colonies for them and set up cultural and sports centers there.

Creating colonies for sports junkies.

The British were preserving a monopoly on tea within Britain and the American Colonies for the British East India Company.