Families with smaller children would be allowed to join the second wave of settlement, once the colony no longer depended on regular supply ships and Hansa bailouts.

It was everybody's business to keep the roads open; the colony depended on roads more than Ancient Rome had depended on theirs.

"Many colonies depend on us for their very survival."

At first, Sydney and the smaller colonies depended on supplies brought in by ship.

The worldwide recession of the late 1880s and early 1890s saw the commodity prices on which the colony depended collapse.

Before the war, African colonies had depended on the export of commodities, which was made almost impossible by enemy shipping.

Instead the colonies depended on an independent militia made up mostly of civilian farmers, with few weapons and controlled by the individual colony.

The colonies depended for their very existence on the support of the Keeps.

African colonies had hitherto depended on the export of commodities, but enemy shipping made this almost impossible.

In between them and farther ahead was the fusion generator that the colony depended on for power.