Sentence examples for colony matter from inspiring English sources

"… Only Queen and Colony matter.

Individual colonies, no matter what their size, retained a degree of autonomy that translated immediately into the language and prerogatives of sovereignty.

Sir Richard said decisions on who should be allowed into the former colony were a matter for Hong Kong and not the Chinese government.

For a restricted set of parameters we provide analytical results; we also design a very efficient computational method to calculate the mean, which works for most of the parameter values, and any colony size, no matter how large.

Why it matters: Colony collapse disorder is caused by a combination of factors – parasites, agricultural chemicals and poor nutrition.

The mound-building habit of the fire ant makes the chemical treatment of individual colonies a simple matter.

First and foremost, it is a social institution and an emblem of status that recalls the Gilded Age powerhouses like Delmonico's and Sherry's, or cafe-society blue chips like the Colony, where, as a matter of fact, a young Italian maître d'hôtel named Sirio Maccioni got his start in New York.

Other pairs seeking a nest site join them, and in this matter a colony forms quickly.

What did losses of tens of thousands of birds and their eggs matter if the colony were tens of millions of pairs?

With the exception of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony", all of the reading matter he passes on to Claude comes from the 19th-century social tradition (Dickens, Victor Hugo) with Flaubert being singled out as the model.

To make matters worse, the colony was wholly unprepared to support them.