Sentence examples for colonial approach from inspiring English sources

This strategy paralleled the British colonial approach of allowing religious courts to handle matters of personal status.

The fundamental problem he identified was the persistence of a "colonial" approach to water engineering, going back to the legacy of Arthur Cotton.

Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey was staunchly opposed to the bill, monopolizing the Senate floor for more than four hours Tuesday evening, arguing that the bill adopts a colonial approach.

On Tuesday evening, Menendez monopolized the Senate floor for more than four hours, arguing that the bill adopted a colonial approach to the territory, which is home to 3.5 million US citizens.

The top-down (colonial) approach of governance was also reflected in the first national forest policy of 1962 which recommended severe penalties.

The colonial approach of taking what you want without proper consent or respect does not work and is being challenged across the globe.

While Gordon Brown and Bono may persuade rich countries to stump up more cash, it won't help the people who need it until the West changes its patronising, post-colonial approach, he says.

He urges Greening to "jettison the old-fashioned, neo-colonial approach of your predecessors" and to "stop parading as modern-day saviours of developing nations and step into the modern world".

Based on an intersectional, subalternist and post-colonial approach, this course is a general introduction to the history of violence by and against women from the early nineteenth century to the present.

In 1989, Magiciens de la Terre, an exhibition curated by Jean-Hubert Martin at the Centre Georges Pompidou, was the first exhibition to offer a post-colonial approach to contemporary art.

During the 1950s and 1960s, donor support was oriented primarily toward a post-colonial approach, focusing on high-technology curative care for developing country elites which resulted in the low prioritization of primary health-care programs for the poor and rural segments of the population.