Sentence examples for colonial background from inspiring English sources

Pascoe acknowledges his colonial background and love of the broader Australian culture, but says he always comes back to the fact that in his bones he feels Aboriginal.

Her first published novel, The Lying Days (1953), a semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman, did little more than hint at a more challenging awareness of her fragmented colonial background.

They singled out for particular praise The Enigma of Arrival (1987), the story of a declining landed estate in southern England and the colonial background of its proprietor, calling it "an unrelenting image of the placid collapse of the old colonial ruling culture and the decline of European neighbourhoods".

"I'm a Canadian, and Canada and Australia share many things in common: the same British colonial background, the same lack of confidence in themselves, and the same vast empty spaces that don't liberate but imprison," Mr. Kotcheff, who today is an executive producer on "Law & Order: SVU," said in a phone interview.

She could never have understood all the nuances and taboos of the upper-class, colonial background that made Peter what he was.' Peter Cook died suddenly of a stomach haemorrhage 10 years ago at the age of 57, and his first wife wants the warmth of his early work to be remembered.

In the period following World War II, these countries were often represented by athletes with a colonial background.

As for the typical countries of immigration (France, Great Britain, Netherlands, and Sweden) we expected that, due to their histories of migration, they have always been represented by lots of foreign athletes, especially those with colonial backgrounds.

Fourthly, the legal situation of African countries is complex and diverse, some having bi-jural and others tri-jural systems, depending on colonial backgrounds and influences.

"And if for this intellectual adventure I go to places where people live restricted lives, it is because my curiosity is still dictated in part by my colonial Trinidad background.

Background: Colonial cinnabar mining and refining began in Huancavelica, Peru, in 1564.

Though home to settlers of diverse national and cultural backgrounds, colonial America gradually became more like Britain in its political and judicial systems, material culture, economies, religious systems, and engagements with the empire.