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 Translation for 'penal colony' from English to Russian
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NOUN   a penal colony | penal colonies
исправительная колония {ж}penal colony
колония {ж}colony
иск.
колония {ж} художников
artist colony
орн.
птичий базар {м}
breeding colony
иск.
колония {ж} художников
artists' colony
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Usage Examples English
  • In the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands were used as a hideout for pirates and became the location of a penal colony.
  • Another infrastructure of early Rochefort from 1766 was its "bagne", a high-security penal colony involving hard labour.
  • It is set seven years after the events in the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens where the Artful Dodger has been sentenced to an Australian penal colony and has a romantic involvement with the character Bet.
  • The film crew arrived in Vladikavkaz in September, and on September 20 were filming the scenes in a women's penal colony in Vladikavkaz where they intended to shoot the scenes of the main character's return from the army.
  • Lee, an adaptation of "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", an adaptation of Kafka's "The Penal Colony", and a script by novelist Richard Yates about the Battle of Iwo Jima.

  • In Roger Macbride Allen's "Hunted Earth" series of novels, the Naked Purples own a former penal colony in or around Tycho crater known as "Tycho Purple Penal" (see The Ring of Charon).
  • Pitt's government took the decision to settle what is now Australia and found the penal colony in August 1786.
  • Some remained at the service of the Governor of the colony for some months: some of these were sent to Norfolk Island where a second penal colony was established.
  • Prisoners included Alfred Dreyfus, en route to the penal colony of Devil's Island after his conviction for treason.
  • Thirty-four Nova Scotians were banished and sent to either the Sherbro or a penal colony at Gore.

  • In 2075, the Moon (Luna) is used as a penal colony by Earth's government, with three million inhabitants (called "Loonies") living in underground cities.
  • The film's focus is on Gable and French Devil's Islands convicts in an escape from the penal colony, who on the way pick up a local entertainer (Crawford) whom Gable had met earlier in the movie.
  • The First Fleet of British ships arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 to establish a penal colony, the first colony on the Australian mainland.
  • From the early 1800s to the 1853 abolition of penal transportation (known simply as "transportation"), Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia.
  • The settlement was planned to be a self-sufficient penal colony based on subsistence agriculture.

  • ʻAbdu'l-Bahá soon became very popular in the penal colony and Myron Henry Phelps a wealthy New York lawyer described how "a crowd of human beings...Syrians, Arabs, Ethiopians, and many others", all waited to talk and receive ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.
  • His objectives were to reach the most southerly point possible at this time in the Weddell Sea; to pass through the Strait of Magellan; to travel up the coast of Chile in order to head for Oceania with the objective of inspecting the new British colonies in Western Australia; to sail to Hobart; and to sail to New Zealand to find opportunities for French whalers and to examine places where a penal colony might be established.
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