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They are colonial breeders and are gregarious outside of the breeding season when they can form large and noisy flocks of up to a few thousand individuals.
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They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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They based their growth on maritime trade and expanded their colonial empire in Asia, the Americas and the South Africa.
They quickly rescinded the Toleration Act and banned public practice of Catholicism, and it would never be reinstated under colonial rule.
They were most commonly applied to nationals of the colonial power, e. g. to distinguish españoles criollos ( people born in the colonies from Spanish ancestors ) from españoles peninsulares ( those born in the Iberian Peninsula, i. e. Spain ).
They asserted that the colonial assemblies had the exclusive right to impose taxes on the colonies and could not assign that right.
They were gradually displaced by colonial encroachment and merged with other, larger tribes about the time of Bacon's Rebellion.
They came from the Gascony region in southwestern France during French colonial rule of New France ( Louisiana Territory ).
They are only thirty currently existing units in the U. S. Army with lineages that go back to the colonial era.
They were imported from the Philippines in the late 17th century during the Spanish colonial administration of Guam as a beast of burden and as a means of transportation.
They were known as the " Wild Wa " by British administrators during Britain's colonial control of Burma.
They are not to be bought off by the Government of the day for a colonial place, or by a snug situation in the customs or excise.
They confiscated and redistributed all land held by the Japanese colonial government, Japanese companies, and individual Japanese colonists.
They argued that neither the Congress nor the President had the right to pass laws governing colonial peoples who were not represented by law-makers.
They also demanded that, given their education, the colonial administration should respect them and accord them positions of responsibility.
They are colonial nesters, excavating burrows on grassy cliffs – they will also nest amongst rocks and scree.
They are nocturnal at the colonial breeding sites, preferring moonless nights to minimize predation.
They were led by Hubertus Johannes van Mook, a pre-war Dutch colonial administrator who led the Dutch East Indies government-in-exile in Brisbane, Australia.
They had successfully managed to drive a wedge between France and Spain, and demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy-although it was suggested by critics that this gave Lord North a level of complacency and an incorrect belief that the European powers would not interfere in British colonial affairs.
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