Sentence examples for colonial manner from inspiring English sources

France's defense minister, Gérard Longuet, dismissed in a radio interview as "totally absurd" suggestions that France intervened in a "colonial" manner.

I think David was the first editor to cover Africa in a post-colonial manner".

Ever since he turned up at Oxford aged 19 and discovered that his Colonial accent and manners made him not the right sort of chap for his Etonian college-mates, Rupe has nursed his big chip against those whom he sees as the establishment.

We then suggest that settler colonialism as a discrete analytic and academic field formation is potentially itself a manner of colonial unknowing.

What Sofie was trying to convey was the concept of La Sape, an African subculture movement that "embodies the elegance in style and manners of colonial predecessor dandies," and is centered around the cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo.

Fashioned by the colonial British in the manner of a grand European capital yet now set in one of the poorest and most overpopulated regions of India Kolkata has grown into a city of sharp contrasts and contradictions.

But Mr Barrow has vowed to pursue the peer and unpick a series of commercial deals that he claims he has used to "soak" the country in the manner of a colonial overlord.

Deftly executed in the Old Masterish manner of Spanish Colonial art, then scumbled, abraded and cleverly antiqued to mimic work from that period, Ocampo's images of torture, murder and mayhem use the allegorical pictorial language of oppressors to disarmingly picture histories that have been repressed.

It developed during the colonial period as a way to criticize the government in a manner that would be nonthreatening and is a common musical form in other African societies.

The city grew out of the cotton, rice and indigo plantations north of the historic port of Charleston, a city famous for its colonial architecture and old Southern manners.

Earl had spent time in England — he was a Loyalist during the Revolution — where he devised a style of portraiture that crossed a rough-hewn Colonial limner tradition with the European grand manner.