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    colony


    1. Ants take bait back to colony where it is distributed through out colony and kills entire colony within 3 months


    2. If an endless food source has been found, they will use it to the benefit of their colony


    3. There was another major secular colony of simulates


    4. Glenelle wondered at the folly of a nation consisting of one pill-shaped space colony three miles in diameter and forty miles long that passes in close orbit less than five hundred miles above, declaring war on a glowing industrial belt holding half a billion mortals that was longer than the distance to that orbit


    5. The heaven of Talstan was Paradis and before Bahkmar's birth Talstan was already the mortal colony, 'soul farm' of Paradis as America was the 'soul farm' of New Dallas and the Pan Solar League


    6. Rather than adjourning early, the Haadij continued the discussions about the logistics of setting up a seed colony in the Kassidorian wilds among the astrophysicists and any others of the crew who wished to remain and listen or participate


    7. There was no record of how the war effected the Centauri colony, that world was still undergoing terraforming and the mortal seed on that world was still under dome and excruciatingly vulnerable in any hostilities


    8. If eleven light years wasn't enough, four and a third would not keep that colony out of the war


    9. Archaeologists excavating a trash pit at the An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an Jamestown colony site in Virginia have found the African tribe


    10. be a colony on Mars; individuals I am certain will have nullification, or college education) and thus would all be friends and loved ones back here on Earth

    11. They intend to bring a thousand more settlers to the Brazilian colony already on Alan's World


    12. Very few on Aura knew that there was a small colony of Scathers in an encampment on the Northern Continent


    13. “Many of the survivors are going to the Centauri colony, that has not been attacked


    14. It certainly wasn’t the people she had encountered on the way thru, but if a colony of ephemeral savages could exist, why not a remnant of the Energy Age? If he was from such a society, it was quite possible he might not have the instincts of modern civilization


    15. Kelvin thought it was a good idea because he still had theological reservations about leaving their souls in such a restricted environment and they really weren't equipped to start a permanent colony and blah blah blah about their health, especially Vic's


    16. A new colony must always, for some time, be more understocked in proportion to the extent of its territory, and more underpeopled in proportion to the extent of its stock, than the greater part of other countries


    17. As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish


    18. looking lepers on their way to a nearby colony


    19. Alec kept his mind off the future, and his eyes off the faces of those around him, choosing to occupy the slow progression of time by watching the face of the wall, and the colony of red winged bugs crawling on its stone surface


    20. ‘Two miles to the west of Vienne is the leper colony

    21. condemning the colony for crimes against the town


    22. heroic shoulders to save my colony


    23. The paper currencies of North America consisted, not in bank notes payable to the bearer on demand, but in a government paper, of which the payment was not exigible till several years after it was issued ; and though the colony governments paid no interest to the holders of this paper, they declared it to be, and in fact rendered it, a legal tender of payment for the full value for which it was issued


    24. But allowing the colony security to be perfectly good, £100, payable fifteen years hence, for example, in a country where interest is at six per cent


    25. The government of Pennsylvania, indeed, pretended, upon their first emission of paper money, in 1722, to render their paper of equal value with gold and silver, by enacting penalties against all those who made any difference in the price of their goods when they sold them for a colony paper, and when they sold them for gold and silver, a regulation equally tyrannical, but much less, effectual, than that which it was meant to support


    26. Its paper currency, accordingly, is said never to have sunk below the value of the gold and silver which was current in the colony before the first emission of its paper money


    27. Before that emission, the colony had raised the denomination of its coin, and had, by act of assembly, ordered 5s


    28. A pound, colony currency, therefore, even when that currency was gold and silver, was more than thirty per cent


    29. The pretence for raising the denomination of the coin was to prevent the exportation of gold and silver, by making equal quantities of those metals pass for greater sums in the colony than they did in the mother country


    30. The paper of each colony being received in the payment of the provincial taxes, for the full value for which it had been issued, it necessarily derived from this use some additional value, over and above what it would have had, from the real or supposed distance of the term of its final discharge and redemption

    31. This additional value was greater or less, according as the quantity of paper issued was more or less above what could be employed in the payment of the taxes of the particular colony which issued it


    32. That the distant colony of Ionia should have such a similar name as our Ionian Sea


    33. Republic, a sort of a colony of the former


    34. She allegedly assigned a task force of our finest warriors to set up a colony not too far distant from Lascor---so that their activities could possibly be traced to us---and those activities were supposedly to include the random acts of kindness and charity towards any with whom they made contact


    35. The mother city, though she considered the colony as a child, at all times entitled to great favour and assistance, and owing in return much gratitude and respect, yet considered it as an emancipated child, over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction


    36. The colony settled its own form of government, enacted its own laws, elected its own magistrates, and made peace or war with its neighbours, as an independent state, which had no occasion to wait for the approbation or consent of the mother city


    37. To satisfy them in some measure, therefore, they frequently proposed to send out a new colony


    38. The sending out a colony of this kind not only gave some satisfaction to the people, but often established a sort of garrison, too, in a newly conquered province, of which the obedience might otherwise have been doubtful


    39. A Roman colony, therefore, whether we consider the nature of the establishment itself, or the motives for making it, was altogether different from a Greek one


    40. The colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society

    41. Though posterior in their establishment, yet all the arts of refinement, philosophy, poetry, and eloquence, seem to have been cultivated as early, and to have been improved as highly in them as in any part of the mother country The schools of the two oldest Greek philosophers, those of Thales and Pythagoras, were established, it is remarkable, not in ancient Greece, but the one in an Asiatic, the other in an Italian colony


    42. The quantity of land assigned to each colonist was seldom very considerable, and, as the colony was not independent, they were not always at liberty to manage their own affairs in the way that they judged was most suitable to their own interest


    43. But as for a long time after the first discovery neither gold nor silver mines were found in it, and as it afforded upon that account little or no revenue to the crown, it was for a long time in a great measure neglected ; and during this state of neglect, it grew up to be a great and powerful colony


    44. In this colony there are said to be more than six hundred thousand people, either Portuguese or descended from Portuguese, creoles, mulattoes, and a mixed race between Portuguese and Brazilians


    45. No one colony in America is supposed to contain so great a number of people of European extraction


    46. demonstrates, that this colony was very likely to prosper, had it been protected by the mother country


    47. But being neglected by Sweden, it was soon swallowed up by the Dutch colony of New York, which again, in 1674, fell under the dominion of the English


    48. The colony of Surinam, though very considerable, is still inferior to the greater part of the sugar colonies of the other European nations


    49. The colony of Nova Belgia, now divided into the two provinces of New York and New Jersey, would probably have soon become considerable too, even though it had remained under the government of the Dutch


    50. The French colony of Canada was, during the greater part of the last century, and some part of the present, under the government of an exclusive company














































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    Synonyms for "colony"

    colony settlement dependency community village homestead hamlet cluster colonial state territory protectorate state United States

    "colony" definitions

    a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government


    a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together


    one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States


    a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated


    a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country


    (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell