Sentences with phrase «after as a colony»

Not exact matches

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.
«Facebook's roaring growth is a threat to Google and other Web portals, and as more developers deploy these hooks, they spread their colonies all over the Internet,» Owyang wrote after Zuckerberg's keynote speech at the conference.
Or the colonies may break free, as did the United States and India, ever after bearing the marks of their institutional parentage.
After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).
After African slavery ended in the 1830s, Indians arrived in England, but not as indentured laborers as they were in the colonies.
It's a place with an inchoate air about it, a country that is still adjusting to the independence it won from Britain 11 years ago after existing as a crown colony since 1862.
On Harare's streets, few seemed to care about the legal niceties as they heralded a «second liberation» for the former British colony and spoke of their dreams for political and economic change after two decades of deepening repression and hardship.
Call me ethnocentric, but I was born in the Northern Territories of the British Protectorate of the Gold Coast Colony and only joined Ghana after the plebiscite in 1956; therefore I am very sensitive to other citizens not respecting our customs and traditions as well, including the President as first citizen for the meantime.
Colonies of bacteria called biofilms live longer in Mars - like waters — especially if they were dried out first, as they would be after hitching a ride through space
As a result, kittiwakes returning to the colony after six months at sea were forced to nest on the roof of the warehouse and neighbouring buildings.
Even though different cell types were used as the initial starting materials, and they were made to produce different sets of proteins, both groups were able to identify and isolate hESC - like cell colonies only 20 to 30 days after transduction.
Several iPSC colonies were observed as early as 10 days after transfection, becoming morphologically indistinguishable from the original H1 - Oct4 - EGFP cell line (Fig. 6B, C).
But after that, as the former vegan's GI bacterial colonies were overwhelmed by carnitine and choline - loving bacteria, he began to generate significant amounts of TMA.
Formerly Salem Village Where a Rich Colonial Heritage Abides The Massachusetts Bay Colony was named after the indigenous population, the Massachusett, likely derived from a Wôpanâak word muswach8sut, segmented as
It is complete The Massachusetts Bay Colony was named after the indigenous population, the Massachusett, likely derived from a Wôpanâak word muswach8sut, segmented as
The drama of a human colony struggling to survive on a far - off planet that is more hostile than it appears unfortunately ends after a mere eight episodes, its cliffhanger ending never to be resolved as the show was not picked up, but it is still worth a look.
Retconning the backstory of The Secret Service, The Golden Circle then sends these last remaining Kingsmen off to the former colonies in search of Statesman, a hitherto unknown American counterpart organization disguised as a distillery in Kentucky, with cowboy agents code - named after beverages: Ginger Ale (Halle Berry), Whiskey (Pedro Pascal), Tequila (Channing Tatum, in what turns out to be a glorified cameo), and the head honcho, Champagne (Jeff Bridges), who goes by «Champ.»
And now he has Christina Kishimoto, poised to «fail up» and, after leaving the superintendent / CEO position in Hartford, will likely gain a position in the SDE or as CEO of Windham or New London or any of the assorted Bantustan / colonies of Pryor's Commissioner's Network.
It was, however, wiped off the books as a patriotic pardon after he led his troops to victory at the Battle of New Orleans, the final major battle of The War of 1812 (between the USA and the United Kingdom and its colonies).
Not too mention if we know apple it will be as thin as their iphone making net books look like a bloated packers fans after eating 15 lbs of swiss colony beef logs.
But de Gaulle told Ho, even as he was enlisting his people in the fight against the Japanese, that after the war he intended to reestablish the French colony.
You can have a Federal Europe, and dissolve Germany into Europe as a state of the whole, as the 13 colonies did after the Articles of Confederation.
As well as devoting huge amounts of energy to the care of cats they look after, many of the staff are hugely active in neutering and monitoring the welfare of feral colonieAs well as devoting huge amounts of energy to the care of cats they look after, many of the staff are hugely active in neutering and monitoring the welfare of feral colonieas devoting huge amounts of energy to the care of cats they look after, many of the staff are hugely active in neutering and monitoring the welfare of feral colonies.
After debate, council members unanimously adopted a version that prohibits future colonies on public property... [but] allows future colonies on private properties, so long as landowners secure City Council approval.»
They also say TNR has added benefits: After a cat colony is sterilized, nuisance behaviors such as fighting and yowling are reduced, and the feral population stabilizes.
Get involved in other ways such as caring for neighborhood feral cats before and after TNR by providing an outdoor shelter, food and water, watching for signs of disease, and monitoring a cat colony post-surgery and post-return.
After a six - year study and daily observation of a feral cat colony, it has been documented that stray female cats start cycling when they are 4 - 6.9 months old, (2) or as soon as the days are long enough.
Known in England as «Queen Mary», Lord Baltimore named the colony he founded in America «Maryland» after Queen Henrietta Maria.
After discovering Neighborhood Cats, Lois quickly became a proactive ambassador for Trap - Neuter - Return, assisting, managing, and informing dozens of fellow private caretakers and organizations on the planning and implementation of their TNR projects, as well as managing five colonies herself.
The tiny area still remained a bone of contention between England and Spain after the era of piracy, and wars and politics in Europe were to have far reaching effects on the West Indian colonies as well as Belize.
Once a British colony named after the celebrated explorer David Livingstone, Zambia's former capital city today serves as the main gateway to the Zambezi River's most famous natural feature: the Victoria Falls.
Shortly after the island had become an English colony, it flourished as a successful agricultural industrial enterprise during the centuries of slavery.
After centuries as a British colony, Belize became a fully sovereign nation on September 21, 1981, and is today a proud member of the British Commonwealth.
Villa Melissa is on the fashionable and sought after west coast parish of St James close to Holetown, and a short beachfront stroll to luxury resorts such as Coral Reef Club, Colony Club, Royal Pavilion and Glitter Bay.
One after another, the human colonies have fallen to the seemingly limitless invasion force of the enigmatic organic ships known as the Wrog.
Italian photographer Matteo de Mayda recently travelled to the former Portuguese colony of Angola to document the country and its people ahead of the upcoming August elections, when José Eduardo dos Santos will step down as president after 37 years of amassing wealth and power for himself and his family.
There are several things noteworthy about performance artist Spartacus Chetwynd: she renamed herself after the gladiator partly to annoy people, she claims to live and work in a south - London nudist colony, she once reinvented Jabba the Hutt as a smooth - talking ladies» man and as of today she is one of four people shortlisted for this year's Turner prize.
The Colony Room Club bar in Soho filled up after many a dinner at Wheeler's, that's true, as well it might after what Cyril Connolly called the «chopless chop - houses and beerless pubs» of the 40s.
Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.
Note to Felicity: Taiwan, no. 40 on the list, just after USA, also has a history of colonization (I don't know if this fits the profile but here's some info): Japan ruled Taiwan as a colony for 50 years from 1895 to 1945.
Geologie Emperor Penguins are also known as the Terre Adelie colony or the Dumont d'Urville colony, named after the adjacent French research station known by the locals as DuDu.).
In the survey, a hive loss was attributed to colony collapse if varroa or other mites were ruled out as a cause; few dead bees were found in a hive, a sign that they fled; a queen bee and food reserves were both seemingly normal pre-collapse; and food reserves were left alone after fleeing.
The fist courthouse library in what is now British Columbia was founded in Victoria in 1869, the same year as the Law Society of British Columbia, 11 years after the founding of the colony and two years before British Columbia became a province within the Canadian confederation.
The decision could have been foreseen, since Britain had followed a policy of territorial division in the 17th and 18th centuries when the American colonies were being founded; in 1769 when Prince Edward Island was detached from Nova Scotia; and in 1784 after the wave of Loyalist immigration (which occurred in Québec as well) when the provinces of Cape Breton and New Brunswick were created.
White River Junction is a small resilient town, able to reinvent itself as a small artists» colony after its stint as a long - depressed prior railroad hub.
The city was named after the Duke of Orleans, who ruled New Orleans on behalf of Louis XV of France, once it was established as a French colony.
With my experience in the industry and after performing my Colony Driving School review, I can confidently say this is a high quality driver training facility and I would consider Colony Driving School to be above average as compared to other driving schools in the area.
The winner of the Hugo Award in 1967, Heinlein's celebrated novel chronicles a Lunar city's revolution after years of serving as a penal colony for Earth.
Although Spain claimed Florida as part of New Spain, it did not found a colony in the Tampa area, and there were no permanent American or European settlements within today's city limits until after the United States acquired Florida from Spain...
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z