Sentence examples for colonial offices from inspiring English sources

The banyan trees reach out from the moldering remains of villas and colonial offices.

The Jewish group bombed Britain's colonial offices in Palestine and diplomatic sites abroad, as well as local Arab targets.

Includes over 44,000 transcripts and extended abstracts from 1574 to 1739 between the British colonial offices and local government, covering a wide range of topics.

Dated 19 February , 1918 a top-secret memo sent by Gen White – the head of recruitment in New York – to the War and Colonial Offices made it clear that any "wooly [sic] headed niggers" were not wanted for the forthcoming spring offensive that eventually led to the Allied victory later that year.

Digitized copies of some of the standardized annual Blue Books submitted by British colonial administrators in Africa to the British Colonial Office and containing statistics about the colony.

Colonial Office papers for Sierra Leone, the free colony established by Wilberforce and his "Clapham Sect" of social reformers as an ideal society where races mixed and slaves were free, reveal that slavery – albeit renamed "apprenticeship" – continued long after the 1807 act abolishing slave trading, with Wilberforce's knowledge.

He visited England in 1832; well received by the colonial office, he caused the dismissal of several officers in Canada.

By 1855, the colony of Van Diemen's Land was granted responsible self-government by the colonial Office, and renamed Tasmania.

The Colonial Office indicated that they were satisfied with Irwin's administration of the colony.

ahead of the Colonial office schedule.

We still approached the United Kingdom through the colonial office.