Sentence examples for british supremacy from inspiring English sources

This began 40 years of anarchy in northwestern India and cleared the way for later British supremacy.

The first move in the scramble for Southern Africa came with renewed assertions of British supremacy in the interior.

The Transvaal government made further concessions, but by this time Milner had determined that British supremacy in Southern Africa should be asserted by force; hence, he remained intransigent.

The Pindari bands were broken up, and, in a settlement, the peshwa's territories were annexed and the Rajput princes accepted British supremacy.

The order, a Protestant fraternal organization, has been a bulwark of Protestant — and British — supremacy in the six northern counties of Ireland.

Huxley and his circle argued that better scientific education and support for scientific research would produce the workers and innovations necessary to maintain British supremacy.

The impact of European wars and the rise of British naval supremacy in the 18th century meant that London eventually took Amsterdam's mantle.

Twenty-first century planning will doubtless protect the monuments to Scott-land, British naval supremacy and feudal power, while ordinary examples of public architecture remain harder to defend.

John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, in 1883, at the high-water mark of British world supremacy, and on the fringes of what the Cambridge historian Noel Annan called the "intellectual aristocracy".

Just as London had gained that position at the height of British economic supremacy in the 19th century, so New York might have been expected to take on the role after the second world war, when the dollar was pre-eminent.

Rhodes was not just personally unscrupulous and venal, making his enormous fortune by cheating and bullying Africans out of their land, but he was also a committed ideologist of British racial supremacy and an important progenitor of apartheid.