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Discover LudwigThe phrase "colonial state" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a country or territory that was once under foreign control or rule. Example: The remnants of colonial state policies still impact the economy of many African countries today.
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Similar to a colonial state, a settler state is governed by an outside regime.
The recruitment of labour became the duty of the colonial state or its licensed agents.
In Congo, the Belgian colonial state was famously greedy and cruel.
Last week, a student organizer named Lester Shum told a crowd that Hong Kong remains a colonial state.
Where plantations did not develop, the colonial state found a means of extracting wealth from free peasants.
It illuminated the ways in which the colonial state transformed women's economic life as well as the ways women navigated the new economic landscape and pressed the colonial state to protect their livelihoods.
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"Distinctive Citizenship: Refugees, Subjects and Post-Colonial State in India's Partition".
In a context of neo-colonial state feminism, the ways in which women are being promoted and included in the assessment and improvement of their neighbourhood environments operates as an exclusion of men from these processes.
Kenya's modern history has been marked by its efforts to maintain a stable post-colonial state amidst long-term ethnic rivalries.
The nest however is usually placed in a tree or bush, and many may nest close to each other in a semi-colonial state.
The book sheds invaluable light not only on modern Ethiopia but also on post-colonial state formation and insurrectionary politics worldwide.
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