The former British colony offers a hard-to-beat combination of high salaries, proximity to the mainland and relative academic freedom.

The colony offered nearly all adult males potential citizenship in the colony.

The colonies offered a much broader franchise than England or indeed any other country.

If only the colonies of France had offered a better foundation, I would have headed there.

These colonies would offer an Earth-like environment but with vastly higher productivity for industry and agriculture.

The colony offers one month residencies to visual artists, writers, poets and composers.

But without access to resources beyond anything the colony could offer, his ideas were doomed to remain speculative.

Instead, the colony offered "a radiant stillness" and "a lunch basket left outside my studio door."

The colony of Victoria immediately offered the three ships for service in the Sudan.

He was given every aid the colony could offer, for they saw in him their last chance to establish contact off-world.