But many of the former English-speaking colonies are now better off than the mother country, while uncolonized Ethiopia and Nepal remain poor. |
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Brazil was a colony of Portugal until 1822 when Pedro I, the crown prince, declared its independence from the mother country. |
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Yet the colonies constantly challenged the ideas and standards of the mother country. |
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The relationship between the mother country and the remaining colonies, the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam, was to be put on an equal footing. |
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There are fewer opportunities to trade with the mother country in a far colony. |
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He's coming back to the mother country armed with lots of new songs as well as a bunch of old crowd faves. |
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Indians abroad are as fond of their mother country as the Chinese are fond of China, but investment isn't a matter of the heart. |
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Later she addressed the thorny question of American independence from the mother country. |
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These Maltese couples then raised a generation of full-blooded Maltese children who had never lived in the mother country. |
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It was roughly another 90 years until democracy took hold in the mother country. |
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Coming from a close-knit Irish family that can trace its roots in the mother country back to 1610, just how did he decide to come and live in Pattaya? |
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There is no such thing as a specifically Hungarian American holiday, perhaps because the attention of most unassimilated Hungarian Americans is focused on the mother country. |
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The new minority's situation quickly prompted the authorities in the mother country to establish a new constitution for the province of Quebec. |
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Unlike the provinces, the vast riches of the north belong not to northerners but to the government of the mother country, Canada. |
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Cultural links in the fields of science, art, and architecture developed between the two towns and the mother country. |
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The same applied to other countries and especially of course to the mother country. |
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This was the first time that Canada, or any other Dominion in the Empire, had loaned money to the mother country. |
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This phenomenon discourages those who would like to invest in their mother country. |
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I accept that many Filipinos naturalized elsewhere retain their sentimental ties to the mother country and share their income and good fortune with their relatives. |
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France had a dynamic plantation economy in the Americas, but its benefits seem to have been confined to limited enclaves within the mother country. |
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As the American colonies were the first to rebel against a European mother country, so the American states were the first to bring forth a new nation. |
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Essentially everyone was in business for themselves, supplying the necessities and luxuries of the colonies while supplying the established mother country with raw materials. |
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During the nineteenth century the countries of America consolidated their political independence from the mother country, but spiritual slavery continued. |
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Spanish-held territories in the Western Hemisphere fought successful wars of independence from the mother country, beginning early in the nineteenth century. |
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We have no mother country to take us in when we find ourselves in such a situation. |
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In late summer 1899 all of Britain's dominions except Canada proclaimed their readiness to lend a hand to the mother country. |
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True, the colonies lacked the extremes of wealth and poverty to be seen in the mother country. |
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My English friend, on his maiden voyage to the States, had stumbled upon one of those little linguistic divergences between the colonies and the mother country. |
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All but one of the shortlisted six hailed from the mother country. |
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But, far from our mother country, we are very isolated. |
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Mercantilism was a significant driver of Colonialism, as, according to the theory, the colony existed for the benefit of the mother country. |
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The administration of the colonies established by the Europeans mirrored in some part the mother country. |
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But although its felicitous title is shaded with irony, it conveys an essentially comforting endorsement of the mother country and its warm-hearted family values. |
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Katia has no real relationship to her mother country. |
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Unable to defend themselves adequately against this type of attack, the exasperated American colonists sought and obtained help from the mother country. |
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According to Beijing, with her poisonous words she wanted to stir up her Taiwanese comrades to hate their fellow countrymen in the mother country, i.e. Beijing. |
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The colonies were captive markets for British industry, and the goal was to enrich the mother country. |
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He would base it on the English language so that India could join the mother country in a steady upward progress. |
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The colonists' loyalty to the mother country was stronger than ever before. |
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The concept of tolerance was the mainstay of the province's Dutch mother country. |
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This assumption meant that colonies were prohibited from engaging in their own independent commerce, and therefore competing with the mother country. |
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