This, combined with the difficulties of supplying and protecting such a distant colony, brought about a waning interest.
Burn's parents were killed by aliens on a distant human colony.
The Spanish crown found it difficult to enforce these laws in a distant colony.
In the French view, an ambitious neighbour had taken advantage of a distant colony cut off from her weakened parent.
A lesson in the government of distant colonies.
Go to a distant colony; and start some useful settlement there.
Those of us in distant colonies at the time had to decide how best we could serve our country.
The order spread rapidly into the other countries of Europe, and even into the distant colonies.
Most Uranian nations had distant colonies that they used for such activities.
Old men on distant colonies were less well defended than Starfleet science officers, but apparently no more valuable.