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colony

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A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.

The district or country colonized; a settlement.

A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. Richard Dawkins

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Oriana Fallaci

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded. Francis Parkman

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. Tony Benn

Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony...In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism. Oriana Fallaci

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants. Saskya Pandita

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