Sentence examples for colonialists from inspiring English sources

Medieval mapmakers wanted to chart their orientation to the Garden of Eden or Mecca; Mercator wanted to make things easier for sea-faring navigators; and colonialists wanted to plot the extents of their empires.

In fact, even at the 1885 Berlin Conference where, legend has it, Europe's colonial powers each drew lines across a map of Africa and coloured in their territories with their imperial hue-of-choice, the colonialists weren't really sure what those areas contained.

They also point out that although at the time Barry was there it was an Indonesian public school, only twenty-odd years before it had been a Dutch school run by the former colonialists.

Since most of the borders of the Arab world owe more to the dispositions of European colonialists than to authentic national groupings, some Arabs may think of themselves as Arabs first and Jordanians or Libyans second.

But through British patronage it grew, creating for the colonialists a pliable tribal elite.

The crowds pressing around the palace compound bayed their approval, vowing to avenge the president's murder and punish the colonialists who plotted it.If that mood continues, so will the war.

The early colonialists went where their sails took them; only after steamships became the norm in the 19th century could they travel against the wind.As a result, some islands were colonised early, some late, for reasons that had much to do with meteorology, and rather little to do with any other intrinsic attractions the islands might offer.

When independence came, in 1977, the founding president, Hassan Gouled, fretted about what would happen if the colonialists left.

See articleEvo sticksLeftist leaders across Latin America hailed the re-election by a big margin of Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, who said that his third-term win was a "triumph for anti-imperialists and anti-colonialists".

Post-colonialists accuse it of being Eurocentric, an apology for imperialism.

He cares not a fig for what "neo-colonialists" in Britain and America might think of him, his methods or his ruinous economic policies.