Sentence examples for colonial opportunities from inspiring English sources

In some cases the grievances have reverberated through the generations.The fallout of empire may include the fraying of the union (because the lost colonial opportunities bound Scotland in).

By acquiring this estate, Spenser made his choice for the future: to rise into the privileged class of what was, to all intents, a colonial land of opportunity rather than to seek power and position on the more crowded ground of the homeland, where he had made his poetic reputation.

In 2015, colonial nostalgia offers a business opportunity for Indians or Britons of Indian ancestry.

A strong showing against England, its former colonial power, was the last opportunity.

But as Mr. Almeida, who sees a new generation of Portuguese speakers walking into his bookstore, said, "Portuguese has gone from a colonial hangover to a business opportunity".

At the risk of sounding colonial, the EU has the opportunity to represent the very best of what it means to be civilised; if it allows one of its member states to behave in this fashion, it has lost all moral authority.

Contributing to the successful operation of the balance-of-power system of the 19th century were relatively slow technological change, great diversionary opportunities for industrial and colonial expansion, and the ideological and cultural homogeneity of Europe.

The slave castes were officially emancipated by the British colonial government in 1861 Hjejle 19677), although employment opportunities in the tea estates attracted workers from other castes as well.

But there is another opportunity for Europe's former colonial powers: higher education.

The South Koreans relish any opportunity to embarrass their former colonial ruler in a fixture that has become Asia's fiercest footballing rivalry.

Elsewhere, the withdrawal of European colonial powers from Africa and the Middle East created opportunities for new forms of socialism.