Sentence examples for small colonists from inspiring English sources

25 years ago in a small colonists' settlement called Calamar in Colombia a group of about 40 indigenous people wearing no clothes and speaking a language no one could understand turned up on the doorstep of the local school.

The company sent a small group of colonists led by John Endecott to begin building a settlement, called Salem, on the shores of Massachusetts Bay; a second group was sent in 1629.

A small number of colonists had training in the operation of cannon and other types of artillery; these were the only effective weapons for attacking significant stone or wooden defenses.

Thus if northward postglacial expansion occurred through small numbers of colonists, alleles might have surfed along a relatively quickly expanding wave front.

Poor planning and silly disputes amongst the crew led them to crash-land on a faraway water planet, leaving a small community of colonist marooned aboard a fully submerged ship.

The first is that the original colonists were small in number such that the original colonization represented a population bottleneck and second, the colonization itself was essentially coincident with the end of the last glacial cycle.

On June 7 all the colonists boarded four small ships to head home.

Until the Stephanian, the later part of the Late Carboniferous, ferns largely were confined to secondary ecological roles: colonists, understory vegetation, small vines.

Taking the threat seriously, Standish urged that the colonists encircle their small village with a palisade made of tall, upright logs.

Introduction events may involve a population bottleneck because the number of initial colonists is often small [18], [23].

Founding populations of island colonists are typically small in size and can only carry a limited number of gene alleles leading to rapid coalescence.