Sentence examples for colonial servant from inspiring English sources
A relative of mine, a British colonial servant stationed in Fiji, saw him as "a meddling conceited fool, who thinks as a successful novelist he should be allowed to try to rule Samoa".
His father, Hugh (later Lord Caradon), was a diplomat and colonial servant whose career included terms as governor of Cyprus and Britain's ambassador to the United Nations.The taste for satire started at Shrewsbury School, where he wrote for the school newspaper, as did his near contemporaries, Christopher Booker, Richard Ingrams and Willie Rushton.
It was to describe just such a multicultural and commercial conglomeration that J.S. Furnivall, a British colonial servant in Burma, coined the term "plural society" 60 years ago.After the generals took over in 1962, Myanmar turned its back on pluralism, and much else.
Although she was sometimes dismissively accused of a neo-colonial mentality, she had had no time for the low-calibre colonial servants who were sent to administer her island, and fought her corner with characteristic aplomb.
This made them extremely effective colonial servants: if their commander ordered it, they could organise a massacre without a moment's hesitation (witness the detachment of the officers who oversaw the suppression of the Mau Mau, as quoted in Caroline Elkins's book, Britain's Gulag).
In a few summer weeks, colonial servants scribbled lines across the map of the mighty subcontinent, carving East and West Pakistan out of Mother India, and sparking a bloodbath so frightful that no one to this day knows exactly how many millions died.
Before going to the Malay Peninsula, Low had spent an uneventful 30 years as a colonial civil servant on the small island of Labuan, a crown colony off the northwest coast of Borneo.
So was her future husband, Charles Hay Cameron, a colonial civil servant and liberal jurist twenty years her senior.
Patrick was the son of Michael de Normann Ensor, a distinguished colonial civil servant on the Gold Coast (later Ghana).
It was in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, while there as a colonial civil servant, that Brian's twin passions for geology and languages flourished.
He still sports the bow-ties he wore as a colonial civil servant, but has recently been seen in a Chinese-collared jacket.Yet Mr Tsang himself has said that the debate about electoral democracy "tortures" Hong Kong.
