Sentence examples for colonial establishments from inspiring English sources

Yunnan was brought into the Han realm with the conquest of the Dian Kingdom in 109 BC, followed by parts of the Korean Peninsula with the colonial establishments of Xuantu Commandery and Lelang Commandery in 108 BC.

In the next two decades, the State funded the construction of large size public buildings to replace colonial establishments; these included the Central Market, the General Slaughterhouse, the Mental Asylum, the Penitentiary, and the Dos de Mayo Hospital.

Resuming his own business, Bartholomew Green found his way into the colonial establishment and served for the next 40 years as chief printer of the Massachusetts colony.

In Virginia, the home state of the two foremost crafters of what we now call religious freedom, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the longstanding colonial establishment of the Anglican Church came to an end with independence, but few imagined religious institutions should have no role in public life.

This movement "challenged the clerical elite and colonial establishment" by appealing to the poor and uneducated.

Soon after the establishment of the Swan River Colony, colonial authorities divided up the land into grants which were given to settlers who had brought capital and to the new settlement.

In colonial times the establishment of a multi-ethnic class system had been suppressed by a sophisticated divide and rule policy of the colonial masters preventing the creation of an inter-ethnic labour class consciousness.

Mahan made the following statement to the War Department: Having therefore no foreign establishments either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores.

The Arabic language and Islamic law were preferred in the colony by the French in the establishment of colonial government, largely because both were codified, and thus easy to standardize.

This was unbecoming in an English establishment, a colonial branch of the House of Lords, engaged in the business of purveying Duveens.

Until the establishment of colonial regimes in the late 19th century, Arab societies were ruled under Shariah law, which essentially precludes autonomous and self-governing private organizations.