Sentence examples for colony status from inspiring English sources

(Reuters) GIBRALTAR: EASING CURBS Britain and Spain ironed out longstanding irritations by agreeing to simplify border crossings, police and court cooperation, and banking between Spain and Gibraltar, but they did not otherwise change Gibraltar's British colony status.

Belize progressed peacefully from colony status in 1862 to self-governance in 1964 and then to full independence in 1981.

The first Greek organization on campus, Theta Chi, was given colony status on January 10 , 1987and chartered on October 14 , 1989(designation: Theta Iota).

On March 7, the national organization made public its choice to maintain the University chapter -- though it will be kept under "colony status" starting in the fall, according to the press release.

Frustrated by what he perceived as the unwillingness of Puerto Ricans to demand their independence from the United States while the island territory was annexed (the event occurred just days before his death), he uttered his final political stance: "No quiero colonia, ni con España, ni con los Estados Unidos" ("I don't want a colony status, neither with Spain nor with the United States").

These notions of individual liberty came into conflict with the colonies' status as part of the British Empire.

At the end of the eighteenth century, the Dutch, in turn, gave way to the British East India Company; the British captured Colombo in 1795, and in 1802 Ceylon became a Crown Colony — a status it retained until 1948, when it became fully independent.

Then, in 16th-century Spain and Spain's New World colonies, his status changed.

West Indies Associated States, former political organization of islands in the Caribbean Sea that were British colonies whose status changed to free association with the United Kingdom in 1967.

(About ten per cent of the worker force in any colony earns élite status, by initiating more tasks and working harder and more persistently than the other ants).

Tapan Kumar Chowdhury, 62, a retiree now working as an activist in the colony, said legalized status would be likely to improve sanitation and local health standards through installation of a true sewage system.