Seagulls nest in colonies.

Our nation desires to maintain these various underlying colonies.

What do you call the colonies now?

Both ants and termites live in large colonies.

In 1867 Russian America was sold to the United States.

It is about the size of a large housecat.

For centuries, Western law arrived with colonial rulers.

References Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman.

The other colonies originally included in the jurisdiction were the Gambia and the British Gold Coast (modern Ghana).

These predatory ants live in small colonies that typically consist of less than 30 adults.

They live in colonies of up to 36 individuals, with a home range averaging about .

The granting of independence to countries that were colonies at the time completely changed the international situation.

After World War Il, Europe was devastated, but still held large overseas colonies

So the end result of the partnership between France and its former African colonies has been spectacularly lopsided.

Puerto Rico was no more a colony than Alaska and Hawaii.

Every age produces its own answers.

These, however, did not include the colonies that were located in the territory of present day Canada.

In order to assert their traditional rights, American Patriots seized control of the colonies and launched a war for independence.

The French governed for two years, during which they constructed a new town, Longchamps, at the mouth of the Demerara River.

They may be colonies, some other form of non self governing territory or States in free association with another State.

The University of East Africa was established on June 29, 1963 and served Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in the eastern African Great Lakes region.

They nest in colonies on platforms of sticks in trees over water, which may gather more than 100 nests (Fleck 2003).

There was considerable belief that increased ties with Yemen would fuel increased trade with the colonies and bring the region under the Italian sphere.

As well as the large seabird colonies with thousands of nesting birds, there are also areas of unspoiled nature consisting of mountains, moorlands, and marshes.

In Nigeria, the Ibo who fought Africa's first post independence war of secession in the name of tribalism remain an uneasy, defiant minority.

For Spain, it meant that it kept its colonies in Texas and also kept a buffer zone between its colonies in California and New Mexico and the U.S. territories.

All the countries share a colonial past and the problems of today have historical roots, stemming from the political and social structures introduced by the colonial powers.

When I do these experiments with older colonies so ones that are five years or older they're much more consistent from one time to another and much more homeostatic.

After World War II, Europe was devastated, but still held large overseas colonies French West Africa, British East Africa, South Asia, and so forth.

Governments in countries colonized by China were forced to adopt this pictographic writing system in order to receive political regulations, but the pronunciation of the characters was not controlled.

Alongside the formal control it exerted over its own colonies, British dominance of much of world trade meant that it effectively controlled the economies of many countries, such as China, Argentina and Siam.

Until less than two decades ago, almost all small island developing countries were colonies or dependencies (or, in the remaining very few cases, at least protectorates) of metropolitan Powers.

We were able to actually say that dinosaurs based on the evidence we had that dinosaurs built nests and lived in colonies and cared for their young, brought food to their babies and traveled in gigantic herds.

Cuba and Puerto Rico had remained Spanish colonies until 1898 when they had been occupied by North America, and their citizens had supported each other in their respective struggles for independence.

Mr. REDZUAN (Malaysia) When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 45 years ago, the United Nations was still in its infancy and the vast majority of United Nations Members today were then colonies of Western Powers.

Subsequently, in 1929, the borders of the park were extended further into Rwanda and into the Belgian Congo, to form the Albert National Park, a huge area of 8090 km², run by the Belgian colonial authorities who were in charge of both colonies.

13. Mr. AZIKIWE (Nigeria) observed that the fact that most States which had become Members of the United Nations after 1945 and had themselves been former colonies attested to the success of the Committee in discharging its mandate.

France has long been a nation of immigration with debates surrounding assimilation and secular identity, in particular concerning migrants from former colonial nations such the Maghreb region of Algeria, Morocco and North Africa.

After outlining the geographical context and historical background to the dispute between those two former colonies, which were part of French West Africa until their accession to independence, in August 1960, the Chamber addressed the law applicable to the dispute.

Lower South The colonial South included the plantation colonies of the Chesapeake region (Virginia, Maryland, and, by some classifications, Delaware) and the lower South (Carolina, which eventually split into North and South Carolina and Georgia).

On the basis of that evidence in respect of the period 1914 to 1954, the Chamber concluded that there was a modus vivendi between the local authorities of Dahomey and Niger in the region concerned, whereby both parties regarded the main navigable channel of the river as constituting the intercolonial boundary.