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  • noun Plural form of colonisation.

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Examples

  • It is also conceivable however that these colonisations occurred naturally, as babirusas are very strong swimmers and well able to make short sea journeys.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • It is also conceivable however that these colonisations occurred naturally, as babirusas are very strong swimmers and well able to make short sea journeys.

    The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006

  • China; how colonies of newts overwhelmed the coasts of Africa and jumped over to America where a new and modern hatchery soon appeared on the Gulf of Mexico; how, as well as the broad waves of colonisations, smaller, pioneering groups of newts were sent out to establish new places for migration.

    The War with the Newts 2006

  • This is not the case and he overestimates my originality here, as a significant minority of scholars including Spyridon Marinatos, the doyen of Greek archaeology for many years, and Dr. Frank Stubbings who wrote the standard article on the subject in the Cambridge Ancient History also accept the essential truth of the reports of the colonisations on the basis of their interpretations of the archaeological evidence.

    'Black Athena' Bernal, Martin 1989

  • If the Sage thinks all fortunate events, however momentous, to be no great matter — kingdom and the rule over cities and peoples, colonisations and the founding of states, even though all be his own handiwork — how can he take any great account of the vacillations of power or the ruin of his fatherland?

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • It seems to me that you complicate rather too much the successive colonisations with New Zealand.

    Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

  • It seems to me that you complicate rather too much the successive colonisations with New Zealand.

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

  • In later colonisations and assignments of new land the κλῆροι were often equally divided, (278) and the gift of citizenship, as has been already mentioned, was sometimes accompanied by a grant of a

    On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay 1906

  • And where colonisations have begun without system, and without hard fighting to teach the settlers to value good leadership and respect their chiefs, they tumble into Republics. '

    Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • And where colonisations have begun without system, and without hard fighting to teach the settlers to value good leadership and respect their chiefs, they tumble into Republics. '

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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