Sentence examples for over a colony from inspiring English sources

In September, the center took over a colony of 266 chimps and 61 monkeys that had been maintained by the Coulston Foundation, a private laboratory in Alamagordo, N.M., whose checkered history included citations by federal animal welfare officials for mistreatment of chimpanzees.

Furthermore, in the morning and evening, columns of small yellow flies may be seen hovering over a colony.

If a Christian ruler presumed to rule over a colony, it was his duty to give it benefits equal to those of the home country and to send efficient ministers to see just laws observed.

He liked to recall how he induced Gloria Swanson to come out of retirement in 1972 to star in the television film "Killer Bees," about a vineyard matriarch who presided over a colony of them.

Then the novel moves forward again, into a future where the primary menace has morphed from monster to man: survivors must contend not just with murderous vampires but also with a cultlike society called the Homeland, in which a small, venal ruling class presides over a colony of terrified workers in the vicinity of what used to be Iowa.

He presides over a colony of black people, who "don't exist" back on Earth.

Somewhere over Michigan, a colony of monarch butterflies, numbering more than fifteen thousand, are beginning their yearly migration south.

I've spent over $25,000 developing a colony of animals who have a progressive age dependent blindness.

(F ) Segregation over time in a colony on rich media (no selection to maintain the plasmids); starting from a micro-colony of four-plasmid prototrophic cells on minimal media, cells were transferred to rich (YPD) media and established as a giant colony, segregation was followed by replica plating.

Hurricane Willa roared over an offshore penal colony and closed in on Mexico's Pacific coast with 120-mph winds Tuesday, threatening this major resort area along with fishing villages and farms.

SAN DIEGO — A long-running legal battle over whether to evict a colony of harbor seals that inexplicably took over a popular beach here like a gaggle of tourists overstaying their welcome appeared closer than ever to ending Friday when a judge ruled that they can stay put.