Sentence examples for colonial links from inspiring English sources

Ten years ago China was nervous about giving top jobs to those with colonial links.

Mr Osborne is mindful of that, refreshing ICSA's colonial links to build chapters in East Africa and beyond.

It shows that the French are ready to move outside their traditional sphere and to match their military presence to strategic interests rather than colonial links.

Nantes' colonial links can also be found in the city's newest downtown attraction, located on the Ile de Nantes, once an entirely industrial area.

No such luck via Nigeria's old colonial links: "The British Council – I don't even know what they do!" Later at the airport, the DIY spirit seems to have paid dividends.

Its colonial links, which for other countries create strong trade ties, appear to be failing: in 2012 Britain was 19th in a ranking of exporters to India, bagging just 1.5% of the market.In this section Better out than in The peace progress Zimmer-framing the issue Nick Clegg, comeback kid?

Mr Sarkozy has opened a new military base in Abu Dhabi, where France has no colonial link, and handed back to Senegal one of three permanent bases in Africa (those in Gabon and Djibouti remain).

Fig. 16 Visa restrictiveness of OECD countries for nationals from African countries, by type of link between countries (previous colonial link or not) (1973 2013).

The Congolese participants that came to Belgium quoted the colonial link between Congo and Belgium.

Post-colonial links with the West offered Africans of great intellect but poor background the chance to study abroad, in the US and Germany.

This is related to its geographical proximity to Europe, their strong colonial and post-colonial links to France and the labour recruitment agreements these countries signed with European countries since the 1960s (De Haas, 2008; Natter, 2014).