Sentence examples for colony which from inspiring English sources

Guided by Barber's idea, the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson convinced the British government to detach the Chagos Archipelago from colonial Mauritius and create a new colony, which they called the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The bird colony, which roosts in the preserve's Lake Martin, is being closely watched.

Artists such as George Bellows were attracted to the colony, which has flourished ever since.

They, in turn, attracted singers, poets and playwrights, forming the core of an artist colony, which remains active today.

THIS former Portuguese colony, which was returned to China in 1999, is not just booming, it's being radically transformed.

For Russia, influence in this former colony, which borders on its warring region of Chechnya, is a vital national interest.

Haiti, a former French colony which forms half of the island of Hispaniola, is especially vulnerable to natural disasters.

The Oregon fungus colony, which covers 8.4 square kilometres (3.4 square miles), is even larger than the specimen in Washington.

The next year Basutoland was annexed without its consent to the Cape Colony, which was granted self-government shortly thereafter.

And the theater is just across the road from the beachfront Malibu Colony, which has more Oscar voters than a big night at Spago.

They jumped from the Plymouth Colony, which was established in 1620, to the Revolution, some 150 years later, in just 90 seconds.