Sentence examples for colonial efforts from inspiring English sources

Out here, the land owns the people, despite colonial efforts to the contrary.

Toward the end of the 18th century, European colonial efforts were beginning to integrate the production systems of eastern Eurasia into patterns of world trade.

Her life has spanned the clumsy colonial efforts to ban the practice, which saw it become a cultural cornerstone of the Mau Mau uprising against British rule, right through to independent Kenya's decision to reimpose the prohibition.

German has centuries of prestige in science, philosophy and literature, despite the failures of Germany's colonial efforts.But these results must be handled with care, the authors note.

Seeing the failure of his colonial efforts, Napoleon decided in 1803 to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States, instantly doubling the size of the latter.

In 1766 the population was estimated to be 860, though the town's borders were smaller than they had been during the French colonial efforts.

This was the case whether the colonial effort took place domestically, as in the United States and Canada, or abroad, as it did for the countries of Europe.

Although disenchanted with the colonial effort, Haggard remained committed to this ideology.

Obviously, we can say the colonial effort to "save" women didn't work.

The colonial effort was galvanized, and the Americans overturned the psychological dominance achieved by the British Government troops in the previous months.

On the land, the enactment of Indigenous property affirms community life and identity, and sustains anti-colonial efforts.