Sentences with phrase «[penal colony»

The deal is certain to raise concerns in Hong Kong, where the South China Morning Post occupies an important position among the English - speaking elite who still dominate the former British colony.

They're eerily abandoning their colonies and dying off in record numbers.

Twentieth Century Fox has released a new Amazon Echo skill called Offworld Colony Simulator.

The sheer number of insects locked in the facility — the largest colony of cockroaches ever to have existed on the planet — conjures some nightmarish scenarios.

On Tuesday, the entrepreneur laid out a wildly aggressive vision for beginning a colony on Mars.

The world's largest cockroach farm is breeding 6 billion adult cockroaches a year and using artificial intelligence to manage a colony larger than the world's human population — all for medicinal use.

According to local lore, back in the 1800s the governor of the Dutch colony decided that the color white caused his migraines.

«We see this reducing the amount of infrastructure you need to send from Earth to Mars to make a sustainable colony,» Noone says.

Maryam Henein, the director of Vanishing of the Bees, a 2010 documentary that explores the environmental ramifications Colony Collapse Disorder, dismisses the personified bee being backburnered as little more than a clever «healthwashing» - reminiscent corporate publicity stunt.

In this episode of «Inside China», CNBC's Eunice Yoon speaks to Hong Kong's oldest stock broker who feels that the ex-British colony may have had its heyday and the future lies in Shanghai.

• Digital Colony agreed to acquire Digita Oy, a Finnish broadcasting network, from First State Investments.

BI: You seem very invested in the idea of a moon colony.

With roots reaching all the way back to the 13 original American colonies, Rebecca Lukens inherited her father's ironworks plant, which sat on the Brandywine River.

For all their drawbacks, globalization and liberalized trade have been a force for peace in the modern world; as national economies become more interdependent, they have more to lose by alienating their trading partners, which aren't necessarily colonies or even allies.

One way is through Security Colony, a portal where firms can exchange ideas for a subscription fee of $ 2,000 a year.

We need bees, and bees are dying en masse, have been since about 2005, when a phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) was first given a name.

Eaton Construction from Portland, OR, boasts quality craftsmanship built on a family tradition of 400 years in the industry, starting with the arrival of Francis Eaton, a «House Carpenter» as described in the ships rolls of the Mayflower, to Plymouth Colony in 1620.

It is true that the US did not persecute the Jews - or at least, as one Nazi lawyer remarked in 1936, it had not persecuted the Jews «so far» - but it had created a host of forms of second - class citizenship for other minority groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, scattered all over the Union and its colonies.

Scotland and England shared a monarch for a century before they united politically in 1707, and the queen remains head of state in Canada, Australia and several other former British colonies.

The Commonwealth is a 53 - nation bloc consisting of the U.K. and its former colonies, including India, Canada, Singapore and Nigeria.

The Commonwealth is a 53 - nation bloc consisting of the U.K. and its former colonies.

Every time one of his companies stumbles, the entrepreneur seems to have another spectacular idea to announce — a Martian colony, a space - based internet or an 800 - mph transit system — to thrill and confuse.

As it was, he was an abnormally large man, especially for the American Colonies.

Corals are animals, the translucent creatures that form huge colonies and create a variety of structures.

It's going to be saving up all your money and selling all your stuff,» he says, «like when people moved to the early American colonies.»

Steven C. Bullock: The pyramid is a sign of strength and survival and long - lasting, and that's showing that the new nation is going to survive and last a long time, and it's built on 13 different steps meaning the 13 new states, the 13 former colonies.

Elon Musk, founder and CEO, SpaceX and Tesla — Referencing Musk's mission to build conditions for a viable colony on Mars, Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, says Musk «is one of the few people not only thinking about the survival of our civilization but also doing something about it.»

«Even the big healthy colonies that had survived bleaching and disease were just annihilated,» he said.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO made bold predictions about colonies on Mars, artificial intelligence, and competition in the self - driving car world.

«GUYS I just walked through an entire colony of flying ants.

HSBC agreed and Li became the first person of Chinese origin to own one of the British - founded companies that had dominated the local economy since the colony's founding in 1841.

«Every time one of his companies stumbles, Musk seems to have another spectacular thing to announce — a new mode of transportation, the space internet, or a Martian colony — to thrill and confuse,» Vance writes.

A growing number of airports tend to have lots of unused land conducive to eco-friendly projects, like hosting bee colonies.

He projects that only 12 tons of initial assets on the Moon could build themselves out into 150 tons of equipment (close to the amount that has been deemed necessary for a lunar colony) using local resources.

«I really like any colony - based structure, where you have a strong dependence on a network,» he told the New Yorker.

But it was for a team that nobody wanted to be part of, a team that, frankly, was the leper colony.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

Groupe Bollore's Bollore Africa Logistics has for years been a corporate powerhouse in former French colonies across West Africa as well as some Anglophone states, holding 16 container port concessions, rail concessions and employing 25,000 people.

Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park, a nudist colony in East Gwillimbury, Ontario (needless to say, some of their links may not be totally safe - for - work), joined the party on Wednesday, becoming the first in its field to accept the most popular of the emerging cryptocurrencies for stays at its campsite and products from its gift store.

Bollore, whose logistics empire is a powerhouse in former French colonies across West Africa, is suspected of corrupting foreign public officials and complicity in corruption, his lawyer has said.

Or you could just have a read through Elon Musk's recently released plan for establishing a colony of a million people on Mars.

And when it comes to a mission to Mars, well... I guess a Mars colony will eventually need gilded casinos and golf courses.

Soon, President McKinley and the ruling Republican party changed their tune and advocated for Puerto Rico to remain a colony, with only token representation in Congress and governed by different tax laws than the mainland.

Alexander Hamilton came to the American colonies as a 14 - year - old orphan.

Gates, a longtime associate of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, worked for Barrack on Trump's inaugural committee and then for Barrack's investment company, Colony NorthStar.

Elon Musk is using his companies to pursue his personal idealistic goals: He wants to move the world to renewable energy, and he wants to establish a colony on Mars to preserve the human species.

«These peripheral glaciers and ice caps can be thought of as colonies of ice that are in rapid decline, many of which will likely disappear in the near future,» said one of the researchers, geologist Ian Howat from Ohio State University.

The Atlantic Club, purchased by hedge fund Colony Capital for $ 513 million in 2005, went for $ 23.6 million in a December bankruptcy sale.

The company just raised $ 38 million in a Series B funding round led by Colony NorthStar and Lerer Hippeau.

But as Janigan details, regional battles over resources in the West go back to at least the 1860s when, shortly after Confederation, the new Canadian government agreed to pay # 300,000 to the Hudson's Bay Co. for the lands between Ontario and the colony of British Columbia.