Mr Ghemawat has tried to measure the links between Britain's former colonies and the rejected mother country.
The connections are not to the old Mother Country of the empire.
But on July 4th it will be, in honour of the day on which America declared its independence from the mother country.
Which, despite being dependencies of the mother country, employed some considerable advantages.
His father was an Italian immigrant, giving him roots in a country that is, along with Spain, considered a mother country of Argentina.
The diaspora seemed anxious not to disappoint their mother country.
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Among the conservative Africans, the affair was dismissed as final proof that liberals in the mother country had erred almost irretrievably from the faith they once brought to the colonies.
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If the British referendum does trigger a rethink in the United States, it would not be the first time in the recent past that the mother country has led American opinion.
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Seven years ago, Xiang, then aged 13, was taken into one of China's many Sports Technical Schools where children are offered the opportunity to bring fame and fortune to the mother country by winning on the international stage.
Suchen had continued watching from afar while couples their age began to have children, and when Lei had joined the other overseas Chinese returning to the mother country to make their fortunes she had not accompanied him on his trips.
Intending to build a private English kingdom in the Zambian wilds, he shipped out grand pianos and fine wines from the mother country, while local labourers reproduced traditional English furniture from native wood and lugged building materials through the bush for hours.
Emmeline knew this, as Lambert would never know it, for her mother was a country woman.
"There are special mother and baby units across the country where they do this treatment which means mother and baby can be together, but unfortunately there is not one of these units in the whole of Devon or Cornwall", she added.
Free from the rigors of tour travel, the residency is "a dream performance scenario" that allows her to balance her roles as a mother and as a country superstar.
My mother immigrated to this country from Nicaragua.
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She already spent several years outside the country with her mother and father, in a Honduran refugee camp, where they sought safety after the little girls disappeared.
But Heather Cardero, a former teacher, mother of three, wants the country to move to the middle.
And so when I went back to Yellowstone, with Ken and my daughters -- that was the first time they had been -- and I'm standing there -- I'm thinking not only about them and the first time they're seeing this, but I'm also remembering back to when my grandmother and my mother had shown me this amazing country so many years before.
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Magda is a nurse, a qualified pilot, a businesswoman and a philanthropist, a gifted and sensitive lover, the holder of certificates in computing and English grammar, a semi-professional country singer, and a mother.
Ms Rojas's mother then began to search orphanages throughout the country for a trace of her grandson.
The singer was allowed to stay in the country as a dependant while her mother studied at university.
He is survived by his mother, who still lives in his home country.
Taplin's love affair with birds started as a young boy, inspired during a country walk in Hereford with his mother.
Andiola's mother has been "previously removed from the country, " she said.
Along with his sister, his American mother and Palestinian father, he fled the country in 1990 when Saddam Hussein's forces invaded the kingdom and sparked the first Gulf War.
Although mother and children spent the summer in the country, the bread-earning fathers (usually lower middle class then) took the long bus ride from the city on Friday evening and returned on Sunday afternoon.
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