Most of Colony's success has come from buying and selling real estate properties at a profit.
Laura, or @pistachio as she favors, sees most of Colony's pitch as Theatre of the Obvious, while @jtaschek and @kevinmarks sneered at the idea that the Web was going anywhere any time soon.
There is a graduated scale of degrees of independence from the most colonial of colonies to the most republican of sovereign Commonwealth states.
The rest of the British Empire consisted for the most part of colonies and other dependencies whose predominant indigenous populations had no such experience.
However, these histograms are not very informative because most of the colonies gather together in the first bins (i.e. colony size intervals), and then, different long-tailed (right-skewed) distributions look similar in common histograms [22].
In the 19th century, Britain built railways in most of its colonies (as well as in much of Latin America).
Before that time, most of the colonies had been financed and settled under the jurisdiction of joint-stock companies operating under charters granted by the crown.
Notwithstanding military reverses overseas, France and its allies recovered most of their colonies, though Britain retained Trinidad (taken from Spain) and Ceylon (taken from the Dutch).
He propagated the doctrine throughout most of the colonies, often against much opposition from orthodox Christians who believed that Universalism would lead to immorality.
Most of the colonies that had big losses last winter were in areas that experienced drought a few months beforehand, and thus a lack of nectar in flowers, he said.
