Sentence examples for colonial official from inspiring English sources

He was subsequently a British colonial official.

Powhatan Indian Pocahontas married Virginia planter and colonial official John Rolfe.

Born in the Argentine interior, the son of a Spanish colonial official, he was above all a professional soldier.

Though he was tolerant of Islamic religious life, his policy as a colonial official was to repress Islamic political agitation.

In trouble: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter (1948) showed us the colonial official at bay.

In 1946, Mr. Senghor married Ginette Éboué, the daughter of a Guyanese who was a prominent colonial official in Africa.

During this time of turmoil, it was unclear who actually governed the colonies: Joseph, the shadow government representing Ferdinand VII, the colonial officials, or revolutionaries in each province.

During the period of Portuguese colonialism, many Cabo Verdeans served throughout Lusophone Africa as middle-level colonial officials and workers.

During the First World War, ill-advised steps by colonial officials in the Philippines who were responsible for the colony's finances created a crisis which lasted from 1919 until 1922.

Historically colonial officials and elite Brazilians showed little interest in Bahia's palm oil economy, effectively conceding it to Afro-descendants until the mid-twentieth century.

"Emphasis is placed upon destruction," colonial officials in Kenya were told.