Sentence examples for colonial ethos from inspiring English sources

The Bandaranaikes - husband and widow - unquestionably broke the stifling colonial ethos of the English-speaking elite, and restored dignity and a rightful place to the Sinhalese majority.

The school was founded by the Methodist Church and run, in Annan's time already, by Africans, who followed a standard British curriculum and colonial ethos.

Bad company: Lawrence Norfolk's Lemprière's Dictionary (1991) accounted for the British East India Company's brutal creed of expansion - an ethos that would enable many a future colonial narrative.

I argue that taking the atmosphere seriously as the medium through which we interact with the world, opens for an understanding of olfaction as an important and largely unexplored ethos that guided the dramatic reshaping of the colonial landscapes during much of the nineteenth century.

Ms. Gregori McKenzie's environmental ethos coupled with her affinity for the past sent her contractor to the city's French colonial-era warehouses, many of which were being torn down, to salvage materials.

Some colonial colour?

Colonial mentalities die hard.

Breeding is mostly colonial.

"A colonial is a colonial," Mr. Walti said.

The service ethos was zero.

Some colonial heritage?