Sentence examples for colonial order from inspiring English sources

In that moment a whole colonial order vanished.

This persistent asymmetry is what it means to live in a colonial order.

It is another name for a present-day colonial order that is weighted against the non-European, and seldom owns up to regret.

Thomas Jefferson, in 1799, referred to the leaders of Haiti's violent overthrow of French colonial order as "cannibals of the terrible republic".

And Lieutenant Compton, with his starchy sense of decorum and his sincere desire to do some good, represents an advance over the old colonial order, whose last vestige is an imperious, nasty priest played, rather too stagily, by Yul Vázquez.

In this, "institutional racism" is a resurrection of the colonial order, which was by no means managed exclusively by racist individuals, but by people who believed that a skewed system was normal.

The film begins with images from the Belgian colonial era -- pith-helmeted white officers lording it over barefoot natives in scenes that recall one of Africa's most violent and predatory colonial orders.

Anwar's main campaign plank – combating the official, institutionalised discrimination that favours ethnic Malays over the country's large ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities – threatened the post-colonial order that has kept Umno and its National Front coalition on top since 1957.

When the running cost of diplomatic road maps with open-ended timetables is buckets of blood, the acrobatics of international statecraft appear unsuited for an explosive region and a post-colonial order whose unraveling began with cries of "al sha'b yureed," or "the people want".

The Revolution had dealt a powerful blow to the ideological underpinnings of slavery and had shaken the Colonial social order.

Despite the proclamation of independence, neither the Belgian nor the Congolese government intended the colonial social order to end immediately.