Sentence examples for colonial officer from inspiring English sources

Bailey's installation aims to subvert the premise of the zoos by replacing its exhibits with powerful living snapshots depicting racism and colonialism: a black woman chained to the bed of a French colonial officer; a Namibian Herero woman scraping brain tissue out of human skulls; the slowly revolving silhouette of Baartman.

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Egypt, where his British father worked as a colonial officer.

According to legend, a colonial officer noticed that a big rock used as a doorstop was made of pure phosphate.

Inside lie the diaries of Peter Davey, a British colonial officer who once served with Hartley's father in Arabia.

George Silberbauer, the colonial officer then in charge, argued that many Bushmen already had extensive contact with people outside the reserve.

"It should be borne in mind that the Standard Oil Company is very anxious to take over Iraq," Sir Arthur Hirtzel, a British colonial officer, warned his colleagues.

And so the quintessential artifact of British colonialism -- in the novel, called the Bedford Hotel, the place where bored colonial officers made a sport of cockroach-hunting -- now lies in ruin, its skeletal exterior surrounding an interior of rubble and charred wood.

He had resigned his commission in October 1754 in resentment of the slighting treatment and underpayment of colonial officers and particularly because of an untactful order of the British war office that provincial officers of whatever rank would be subordinate to any officer holding the king's commission.

The answer lay in the unease of some British colonial officers.

British colonial officers founded Aitchison College, the leading preparatory school for boys in Pakistan, in 1886.

The master planner, however, considered designing villas for colonial officers beneath his abilities.