The office contains hymns in the honour of the saint: "Rejoice, mother country of the English!
It was for their children, and for the sacred privilege of religious liberty, that they had originally left the mother country.
But restrictions were subsequently imposed on colonial enterprise, which led to collisions between the colonies and the mother country.
A year or two before the rupture with the mother country, the Presbytery of Hanover established a seminary in Augusta, beyond the Blue Ridge.
Many of the leading members, including Washington, still hoped for reconciliation with the mother country, and few as yet avowed themselves in favor of independence.
Evil reports had also reached the mother country as to the moral character of some of the clergy.
How did the belief start among the British people that New England wished to return to its allegiance to the "mother country?
The increase of steam and the facility of communication and the little leaven of Anglo-Saxonism unfortunately left among us, has of late years caused many Americans to look up to England as the mother country, as the phrase goes.
Government on its own territory into a mere colony, with Virginia and Maryland for its "mother country!
Mr. Paine argued against this title of "mother country" being applied to England.
She [England] set out with the title of parent or mother country.
In Letter 1, he speaks of England as having "alienated the colonies from their natural affection to their common country," and in no place says parent or mother country.
From time immemorial the entire ideology of our soldiers was contained in the well-known formula: "For God, for the Czar and for the Mother Country.
We now come to the third foundation--the Mother Country.
Mother Country to come out of the great struggle downtrodden and weakened.
At this point Saxony, for the first time breaks in: "Mother Country!
You know that I am your Mother Country, and yet you pay me none.
What Respect have you the front to claim as a Mother Country?
Franklin and his friends knew so well how to promote, while they amused and deceived the friends of the unity of the empire, in both England and America, by professing an earnest desire for reconciliation with the mother country.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mother country" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
