Australia, New Zealand, and Canada had no colonial conflict with the mother country.

澳大利亚、新西兰和加拿大与它们的宗主国之间没有发生过殖民冲突。

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The other problem with Mexicans is that they retained ties to the mother country. Or, at least, some did.

墨西哥人尚存在这样一个问题，那就是他们与其祖国依然存在千丝万缕的联系，或者至少某一些人是如此。

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The Azores and Madeira, ethnically and geographically closest to the mother country, are still part of Portugal.

而种族和地理上都接近于母国葡萄牙的亚速尔和马德拉则仍是葡萄牙的一部分。

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And as they set off across the wild country of west Texas, their mother and father could hardly hear a thing.

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He fled with his mother on the last public flight out of the country before the overthrow of the government.

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Leyda Lopez came to Sunday's rally with her mother who entered the country illegally from Equador nearly two decades ago.

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But on July 4th it will be, in honour of the day on which America declared its independence from the mother country.

ECONOMIST: Americans abroad

Which, despite being dependencies of the mother country, employed some considerable advantages.

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Among the conservative Africans, the affair was dismissed as final proof that liberals in the mother country had erred almost irretrievably from the faith they once brought to the colonies.

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