Sentence examples for mere colony from inspiring English sources

Since its days as a mere colony, North Carolina has never had a law dictating which bathrooms are for whom.

"Now we are becoming a mere colony of American financial capital, a place that has lost all identity, and every upstanding German should stand up and fight this".

This corps earned an enviable record in battle and represented the first authentic expression of Canada in the world; its strength and reputation meant that Canada could not be treated as a mere colony.

For all our occasional triumphs we are so often, at the business end of things, a mere colony of Hollywood – while artistically, we abide in the uneasy knowledge that close to us there is a place where a conveyor belt of fine movies seems to just keep rolling on, effortlessly bringing wonderful, truly cinematic films to its own people and the world beyond.

House Speaker Mike Chenault (R-Nikiski) unveiled a resolution Thursday that takes aim at the state of Washington "or any entity that would treat this state like a mere colony".

Two years later it produced a new, liberal constitution that proclaimed Spain's American possessions to be full members of the kingdom and not mere colonies.

Scientists say the discovery is much more than a mere curiosity, because the colony consists of what are known as social amoebas.

He names names in both debates, including his own as too late a convert to the view that Hitler was no mere imperialist fighting for markets and colonies.

Running simultaneously five colonies has increased the processing time by mere 25%% from 81 to 100 seconds.

The Byzantine basileus, or autocrat, had moral responsibility for guarding and harmonizing an elaborate state, a "colony" of heaven in which reason and not mere will ought to rule.

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (WN) was first published in March of 1776, a mere four months before the Declaration of Independence by the American colonies.