Sentence examples for colonial nation from inspiring English sources

Vulgar merriment aside, the discrepancy between the British (or rather English) fondness for splendid isolation and the real experience of a globally connected maritime, commercial and colonial nation creates a mental block.

Instead, it was left to Britain to rule this colonial nation for another quarter-century and ultimately bring it to independence.

Feminist historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortracesaces the roots of the security state to the birth of the U.S. as a settler colonial nation whose expansion was driven by an "imperialistic urge".

If we don't understand this as a settler colonial nation -- even if there were no Indians left, that they had managed to kill them all off, it would still be this country.

Understand of course, that this is but the American version of Christian nationalism that was true for all European colonial nations.

Protestant missionaries were working in most of the West and Central African colonial nations in the 19th century, but in some parts of East Africa mission began only in the 20th century.

On the simplest level, it seems that France, because of its geopolitical realities and responsibilities, desired or not, to neighboring and formerly colonial nations, would have to have a very different approach from that of the United States, which dominates its continent and can in some ways operate in a vacuum.

Here's the problem with this conversation: it's a reminder that the traveller is an observer, and most of the people I know who travel are from colonial nations, with positions of power and privilege in their home societies (otherwise travelling would be likely to be difficult).

In colonial nations such as Canada, there have been increasing requirements for governments to engage directly with Indigenous communities regarding their rights and interests in natural resource management generally, with specific focus on the role of Indigenous knowledge systems in harvest management decision-making (Tikina et al. 2010).

Post-colonial nation builders jostled in the newly opened space.

What a strange fate for a post-colonial nation: to be ruled by a Victorian relic.