For former colonies, it is the most important global organisation that the United States does not dominate.
Supporters of the Commonwealth also point out that there are some beneficial cultural links for the former colonies.
Under bilateral accords, France's military provides logistical and intelligence support to some of its former colonies in Africa.
Nunu didn't like messing about with the hives, and one day we sold all eighteen colonies.
Just imagine what Americans experienced when they fanned out from 13 colonies to settle a continent.
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Patch reef: small colonies of corals, sometimes less than 10 m (33 ft) in diameter.
E-books used to get lumped in with the same science-fiction stuff as jetpacks and lunar colonies.
In 1996 it lost 7% of its rodents after viral infections contaminated some of its colonies.
During the summer, when the nectar is flowing, even weak colonies can appear to be healthy.
Probably, he said, it was because people thought nothing good could come out of the colonies.
The colonies instituted local self-government indigenously to confirm the rights resident in their persons and property.
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The English learned the art of self-government, and the American colonies took it even further.
In many ways these are dreary, dreadfully boring alternatives to moon colonies and space travel.
Where it lapsed, in southern slaveholding colonies, a long period of economic backwardness resulted.
He looks for Europe to follow the advice Benjamin Franklin once gave the 13 U.S. colonies.
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He compared the ex-colonies' traffic with Britain with their traffic with the rest of the world.
It's in the interest of western arms business to see factionalisation of former colonies.
The former French colonies have sculpted this word to their own social and economic reality.
Likewise, the 18th-century French and Indian Wars were fought by militia troops from all the Colonies.
Overhead, gulls and gannets ride the thermals or roost in noisy colonies on the cliff faces.
There were no signs of moths or other pests that normally invade sick colonies.
In America, it created fears that Britain might try to abolish slavery in its colonies.
Unlike honeybee hives, colonies of Exoneura contain several fertile females sometimes as many as eight.
At the time, King George III ruled Great Britain and by extension, the colonies.
The crisis exploded Britain's lingering imperial pretensions, and hastened the independence of its colonies.
Missionaries run most leper colonies: many Hindus regard the disease as a punishment for wrongdoing.
Not so George III, who declined to enter into a commercial treaty with his former colonies.
Furthermore, France has to take into account the importance of migrants related to its former colonies.
DC, and all the colonies, client states, satrapies, sepoys, slaves and helots must understand that.
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