Sentence examples for colonial subjugation from inspiring English sources

'colonial subjugation' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to when a country or region was taken over and controlled by another power. For example: "The colonial subjugation of India by the British Empire is taught as a major part of world history."

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Red Brethren challenges the trope of Christianity as a tool of colonial subjugation.

Only by postulating scientific explanations for racial differences could slavery and colonial subjugation be justified.

But in this exhibition, the severity of colonial subjugation is just as visible and, in the end, more affecting.

The Indians, he argued, had been made 'headless' by the Islamic Mogul conquests and by colonial subjugation.

"They have realized that complete colonial subjugation is not an option," said Mr. de Waal, now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington.

Mongkut's policies, though costing Siam a degree of legal and fiscal independence, spared the country the military incursions and colonial subjugation other Southeast Asian states experienced.

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The president of the territory's senate likens federal oversight to "the worst colonial subjugations" and The Post editorial board worries about "the legitimate prerogatives of the island's legislature". But what are the proper prerogatives of a mendicant legislature avidly seeking maximum leeway to repudiate debts?

As you rightly point out, however, Britain seems unable to reflect on the foundations of its colonial supremacy – subjugation, oppression and discrimination – while Germany appears to have accepted its history, by holding exhibitions and negotiating with its former colonies.

In a country where memories of colonial economic subjugation run deep, however, the Treasury's demands may have the effect of making concessions on exchange rate policy politically risky, bankers in China said.

He set aside the bitterness of enduring 27 years in apartheid prisons – and the weight of centuries of colonial division, subjugation and repression – to personify the spirit and practice of Ubuntu.

Throughout the colonial period, the subjugation of the environment and its aboriginal population was rarely portrayed in works of art.

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