dependencies

One of the grandest things about these dependencies is that we are so busy quarrelling among ourselves that we have no time to abuse the Mother Country.

Australia and Her Relations to the British Empire 1912

You are aware that I am the sole heir of the Hidden House estate, which, with all its dependencies is considered the largest property, as my wife would be the most important lady, in the county.

The Hidden Hand 1888

Though there may have been some in the past who cavilled at Britain, and though probably the period when the United States withdrew from Britain might have produced in some minds the belief that the English people had lost their power of colonizing, I believe that today Canada, standing side by side with the United States as one of a large number of related dependencies, is a proof that Britain has not lost her power for colonizing; that there is still the adaptable spirit in Britain, and that she is still able to weld into one, divergent nationalities.

Canada as a Field for the Solution of Imperial Problems 1908

4Written nearly five hundred years ago, Babur's description of Kabul and its dependencies is peppered with references to heavy wine-drinking bouts set in lush and bountiful venues.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

The memo is directed at senior NSA officials and advises them that the agency is 'mounting a surge' aimed at gleaning information not only on how delegations on the Security Council will vote on any second resolution on Iraq, but also 'policies', 'negotiating positions', 'alliances' and 'dependencies' - the 'whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises'.

Archive 2003-03-01 2003

Outlying territories of some size and population, which are held as dependencies, that is, which are subject, more or less, to acts of sovereign power on the part of the paramount country, without being equally represented (if represented at all) in its legislature, may be divided into two classes.

Representative Government 2002

The same idea must occur to every one who compares the French method of colonization with that pursued in English dependencies.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

I had been making my living in Dutch dependencies.

'Twixt Land and Sea Joseph Conrad 1890

Outlying territories of some size and population, which are held as dependencies, that is, which are subject, more or less, to acts of sovereign power on the part of the paramount country, without being equally represented (if represented at all) in its Legislature, may be divided into two classes.

Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill 1839

You seem to have taken the next step, however, and got services essentially autoconfiguring their own dependencies, which is awesome. re: 'shell scripts are slow'

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