Examples of using "Colônia" in a sentence and their english translations:
Brazil was a Portuguese colony.
Kenya used to be a British colony.
This colony was founded in 1700.
The colony has not declared independence as yet.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal.
We're talking about a British colony.
Brazil was a Portuguese colony.
The entire colony will inherit the mutant DNA.
Please come visit our Martian colony.
Nigeria is a former French colony.
At one time Nigeria was a British colony.
Australia was started as a British penal colony.
In 1890, the colony acquired its own government.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal.
I'm going to Mainz and then to Cologne next year.
Scientists have just discovered a colony of flying penguins living in Antarctica.
The world is horrible. I'm ditching it and moving to another planet. I'll found a colony where everything will be just perfect, a real utopia. I'll tell everybody what to do (for their own good and the good of the colony, of course) and they'll do it. Or else. But all for the prosperity and well-being of the colonists. You understand.
Since Puerto Rico is a US colony, Puerto Rico's head of state is the President of the USA, but inhabitants of Puerto Rico are not allowed to vote in US presidential elections.
"Far off there lies, across the rolling wave, / an ancient land, which Greeks Hesperia name; / her soil is fruitful and her people brave. / Th' OEnotrians held it once, by later fame / the name Italia from their chief they claim."
- There was an ancient city; the Tyrian settlers held it: Carthage, standing afar opposite Italy and the mouths of the Tiber, rich in trade and very harsh in the study of war. Juno is said to have valued this one city more than all lands, even above Samos.
- There stood a city, fronting far away / the mouths of Tiber and Italia's shore, / a Tyrian settlement of olden day, / rich in all wealth, and trained to war's rough lore, / Carthage the name, by Juno loved before / all places, even Samos.
When a coral egg and sperm join together as an embryo, they develop into a coral larva, called a planula. Planulae float in the ocean, some for days and some for weeks, before dropping to the ocean floor. Then, depending on seafloor conditions, the planulae may attach to the substrate and grow into a new coral colony at the slow rate of about .4 inches a year.