Assertion: gravity's law | /r/CapableOf | hold colony
Facets:
value: to great britain
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in a manner
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Pownall applied the Newtonian concept of gravity to his theory of empire, as evident in his suggestion that the "laws of nature" held the colonies to Great Britain in a manner "analogous in all cases, by which the center of gravity in the solar system" held the planets in their orbits.