Sentence examples for the colonies which from inspiring English sources

(The colonies, which look like mounds of sawdust, can cover an area the size of a suburban back yard).

It gives a detailed account of legal challenges to slavery in Britain (but not the colonies), which culminated in the Somerset trial in 1772.

By Lawrence Lader The New Yorker, January 13 , 1945P. 44 The colonies, which Genl. de Gaulle has promised his countrymen to hold onto, except to have plenty to say at the polls about the future of the Empire.

Subsequent acts required that all goods bound for England or English colonies, regardless of origin, had to be shipped only on English vessels and that certain "enumerated articles" from the colonies (which came to include sugar, cotton, and tobacco) could be shipped only to England, with trade in those items with other countries prohibited.

We also get a glimpse into the Colonies, which were spoken of quite a bit in the first Season but never shown.

Maternity roosts were located in buildings mainly surrounded by woodland and shrubland (48% of a 2500 m radius buffer around the colonies), which are preferentially used by the lesser horseshoe bat as foraging areas.

Artists such as George Bellows were attracted to the colony, which has flourished ever since.

While acts of altruism can be costly for the individual, Darwin argued that they helped sustain the colony, which made individuals within the colony more likely to survive.

Initially there were 400 to 500 settlers in the colony, which never grew to more than 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants.

The ice also seems to have forced the colony, which a few years ago had about 2,400 adults, to break up into groups.

He lived there for months, observed prison conditions, got to know the inmates and made a census of the colony, which included families with children.