| In terms of musicals, he has been there for nigh on 20 years, colonising foreign cities with his chorus lines. |
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| The capitalists who are now colonising the public sector across the globe are the common enemy of workers everywhere. |
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| These new northern pilgrims are less snooty than their colonising predecessors. |
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| Because of global warming, more and more species are colonising Britain, and some like the Red Admiral butterfly are even year-long residents now. |
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| The eutrophication of areas outside its natural range partially explain the fish's success in colonising these areas after being introduced. |
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| As much as anyone after Henry the Navigator, he was responsible for Portugal's success as an early colonising power. |
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| They can propel themselves over wet grass and dig through wet sand to reach upstream headwaters and ponds, thus colonising the continent. |
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| In 1655, England annexed the island of Jamaica from the Spanish, and in 1666 succeeded in colonising the Bahamas. |
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| In this period the Germans started colonising Europe beyond the Empire, into Prussia and Silesia. |
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| Edward defeated the local Welsh princes in a major campaign and set about permanently colonising the area. |
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| This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies. |
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| However, there is a sense in which he did not leave his native people, as the Irish Gaels had been colonising the west coast of Scotland for some time. |
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| Not all indigenous peoples share this characteristic, sometimes having adopted substantial elements of a colonising culture, such as dress, religion or language. |
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| They are regarded as pioneer species, rapidly colonising open ground especially in secondary successional sequences following a disturbance or fire. |
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| These specimens escaped and established themselves in surrounding ranchlands and coastal areas, with some crossing the Espiritu Santo Bay and colonising Matagorda Island. |
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| Henry had conducted a campaign in South Wales in 1108, pushing out royal power in the region and colonising the area around Pembroke with Flemings. |
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| Colonising Ulster with loyal settlers was seen as a way to prevent further rebellion, as it had been the region most resistant to English control during the preceding century. |
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