Sentence examples for Colonial outposts from inspiring English sources
Then Dubai, a pearl-fishing port, served as a stopover for the flying boats of Imperial Airways (a forerunner of BA) on routes connecting London to distant colonial outposts.
According to a recent and chilling report from Human Rights Watch, more than half of these laws were imposed on colonial outposts from that great Victorian period of globalisation known as the British empire.
His circular, posted to British governors in Malaya, British Guyana, Fiji, Cyprus, Kenya, Uganda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Northern Rhodesia and other colonial outposts, requested feedback on "the effect of anti-colonialism on the attitude of the politically conscious among indigenous colonial people".
Tokelau is one of the world's seventeen remaining "non-self-governing" territories, mostly former colonial outposts such as Bermuda, Gibraltar and St, Helena.
The decision is a personal triumph for the billionaire Tory peer Lord Ashcroft, who is well known to have a soft spot for old colonial outposts.
The foundations of the team's success lay, to a great extent, in those other former colonial outposts, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
My mother gets endless summons from NHS outposts.
Israeli Army outposts are starting to be dismantled, their equipment hauled back inside Israel.
The houses that Atterbury designed were spare and square, faced in stucco, like Foreign Legion outposts in the deserts of Morocco.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Behind an electrified fence, blast-resistant sandbags and 53 National Police outposts, the Afghan surge is well under way.
That year the War Department offered a single, enormous two-year contract to transport supplies to most of the U.S. Army outposts in the Southwest and West.
