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But this might not always be for the interest of the mother country.

So we would be doing our side, and the mother country, a favor by including him.

"The mother country calls for all to come together as brothers."

She set out with the title of parent, or mother country.

It may also be because the only road enters that foreign place before coming back to the mother country.

He felt a great pain for his imperfect mother country.

They have welcomed to interactions with their mother country as well.

"Because we are like the mother country to all of the Arab states.

Time was when we imported our critical decisions from the mother country.

New Spain had been transformed by the events in the mother country.

It was now the turn of the ex-colonies to change the mother country.

War was looming with the mother country, and to this end he devoted all of his energy.

The colony brought economic opportunity to the mother country and there was little concern at the time about it.

For many it was their first chance to see their mother country.

The American colonies did not prove profitable to the mother country in the end.

Back in the mother country on the other side of the Atlantic, a similar divide has emerged.

The mother country and the former colonies have always influenced each others' educational politics.

During the Revolution they were all loyal to the mother country."

"We're so proud of our mother country and the Olympics.

Because of well-paying investments in the mother country they had no need to work the land here.

The colonists' loyalty to the mother country was stronger than ever before.

Everywhere else is a variation on English and should look to the mother country to see the error of their ways.

As in America 2,300 years later, the colonists had quarreled with the mother country.

And it was for the same reason that Canada was lost to the mother country.

These Spanish elements practically disappeared in the mother country by 1750.