Sentence examples for colonial compound from inspiring English sources

Quiet temple gardens in Japan become bustling Sunday markets, and a former colonial compound in Malaysia gives guests a taste of empire.

After walking around the premises, we sauntered down the street to the stately, members-only colonial compound housing the Karachi Goan Association.

We spent our first night in the Blue Iguana Inn, a Spanish colonial compound that offers a variety of accommodations, including some secluded bungalows perfectly situated for family reunions, wedding parties or a gathering of friends.

Europe's colonial past gets compounded by the regressive interpretations of Islam, which keep segregation intact and alive.

This poverty is the direct legacy of perhaps the most brutal system of colonial exploitation in world history, compounded by decades of systematic postcolonial oppression.

Those houses are now being turned into luxury residences and hotels, and new compounds like the colonial La Villa de Monsieur Thomas and the modernist Knai Bang Chatt demonstrate what the future of high-end tourism on the Cambodian coast might look like.

Colonial under-investment, followed by internal misrule and compounded by external intervention, have generated widespread social upheaval, stalled development and progressive impoverishment, with ethnic, religious and social divisions reflected in the recent civil conflict.

Burton's refusal to reveal the identity of an Indian informant compounds the official view that he has, in that most damning of British colonial euphemisms, "gone native".

In "social" colonial sea squirts the zooids are relatively independent, whereas in "compound" colonial ascidians budding gives rise to a colony in which the zooids are embedded in a common tunic.

In "social" colonial ascidians the zooids are relatively independent, whereas in "compound" colonial ascidians budding gives rise to a colony in which the zooids are embedded in a common tunic.

On a quiet street near downtown Rangoon, in a neighborhood of elegantly faded colonial buildings, is a gated compound that is known as the American Center a cultural outpost of the State Department.