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He had saved his money, grown too prosperous, and returned to the mother-country.
THE SPIKE 2010
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Land-owning was of enormous importance back in the mother-country in terms of who had power and rights.
It’s Patriots’ Day 2010
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The new elite calmly watched 50,000 of their compatriots starve to death while they sold food to the new mother-country, India.
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But the family lost everything during partition and fled to the newly-created Pakistan - so Rafiushan was scattered in his early twenties to the imperial mother-country.
Johann Hari: Hanif Kureshi On The Couch: An Exclusive Interview With the Novelist and Screenwriter 2009
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In their common festivals they would not allow them the customary privileges of founders, and at their sacrifices denied to a Corinthian the right of receiving first the lock of hair cut from the head of the victim, an honour usually granted by colonies to a representative of the mother-country.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Ireland by those natives who have it, — the right of looking down with scorn upon all persons who have not had the opportunity of quitting the mother-country and inhabiting England for a while.
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The representative of Old Virginia came off very well in his friendly rivalry with the mother-country.
The Virginians 2006
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America, the colonists were obliged to import their divines from the mother-country.
The Virginians 2006
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English subjects to all intents and purposes, and are in a great measure lost to their mother-country.
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Of this performance I avoided to talk with him; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-subjects in the mother-country should have the entire command of their fortunes, by taxing them without their own consent; and the extreme violence which it breathed, appeared to me so unsuitable to the mildness of
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