Sentence examples for or colony from inspiring English sources

The termite society, or colony, is a highly organized and integrated unit.

During that time, an estimated 18 million Africans were forcibly transported to Brazil, more than any other country or colony in the Americas.

"The historical definition of the word 'plantation' is 'settlement or colony,' " Ms. Kempe wrote, "and is no way in reference to the most modern definition associated with slavery".

The usage is metaphorical -- "planting" a town or colony, as a tree would be planted -- and does not imply large agricultural estates worked by slaves.

In the annual Massachusetts elections he was chosen governor 12 times between 1631 and 1648, and during the intervening years he sat on the court of assistants or colony council.

The British Parliament's Colonial Naval Defence Act of 1865 provided that the British Blue Ensign would be "defaced" by a badge for each government department or colony making use of it.

CFUs -- or colony-forming units -- is a microbiological term that describes the density of viable bacteria in a product.

Patients were ineligible if they had received previous treatment with docetaxel, paclitaxel, or colony-stimulating factors.

However, recently, many groups have commenced utilizing sphere (serum-free medium) or colony-forming assays as attractive surrogates in vitro.

HSCs/primitive HPCs give rise to a hierarchy of committed HPCs, functionally defined as burst-forming units (BFUs) or colony-forming units (CFUs).

For comparisons of myeloid cell or colony-forming units numbers between two groups (e.g. treated and non-treated) a two-tailed, unpaired Student's t-test was performed.