| Yet the colonies constantly challenged the ideas and standards of the mother country. |
| In late summer 1899 all of Britain's dominions except Canada proclaimed their readiness to lend a hand to the mother country. |
| Brazil was a colony of Portugal until 1822 when Pedro I, the crown prince, declared its independence from the mother country. |
| It was roughly another 90 years until democracy took hold in the mother country. |
| He's coming back to the mother country armed with lots of new songs as well as a bunch of old crowd faves. |
| These Maltese couples then raised a generation of full-blooded Maltese children who had never lived in the mother country. |
