Sentence examples for colony authorities from inspiring English sources

I refuse to take part in slave labor in the camp until the penal colony authorities start to conduct themselves in accordance with laws and start treating women inmates like people rather than cattle".

"I refuse to participate in slave labor at the camp until the penal colony authorities begin to work under the law and treat women inmates as people rather than cattle," Ms.Tolokonnikova wrote in the letter, which was published on the Lenta.ru news service.

Soon after the establishment of the Swan River Colony, colonial authorities divided up the land into grants which were given to settlers who had brought capital and to the new settlement.

When the other New England colonies in the dominion were informed of the overthrow of Andros, pre-dominion colonial authorities moved to restore their former governments to power.

In December 1960 the British colonial authorities invited Kaunda and several other UNIP leaders to participate in discussions on the status of the three colonies at a conference in London.

The letter, published in state media, marked a significant shift in the former British colony, where authorities had long refused to recognise the existence of political prisoners, usually dismissing such detainees as common criminals.

Having met his obligation to present the position of the colony's authorities, he then pronounced, "Hearken now to your sentence of death".

It took the potato a couple of centuries to gain respectability in Europe, and the colonies; medical authorities held that the potato encouraged leprosy.

Burke suggested that a conciliatory attitude be shown by Britain's Parliament, along with a readiness to meet American complaints and to undertake measures that would restore the colonies' confidence in imperial authority.

In the nearby former Portuguese colony of Macau, authorities have also warned residents against travel to South Korea unless absolutely necessary.

He stated that the colony's civil authorities could not regulate "the First Table," those among the Ten Commandments that governed religion; they could prosecute someone for adultery, but not for making (or worshiping) graven images.