Sentence examples for colonists for from inspiring English sources

Well, yes – but they always had the air of colonists for Anglo-American culture.

The proclamation, however, caused consternation among British colonists for two reasons.

Such deaths, commemorated in lugubrious popular histories, helped muster support among the colonists for the decimation of Indians who resisted.

Our hotel was in Puerto Madryn, where the Welsh colonists, for purely navigational reasons, had first landed.

Mabanckou seems to be saying that Africans should stop blaming the colonists for all their ills and move forward.

The "born-frees" are more inclined to blame their current rulers, rather than past colonists, for the state Africa is in.

Dom had joined the church about a year after his divorce, and he'd volunteered as a colonist for the new settlement six months later, a commitment that required him to sign over all his assets to the church.

For the colonists, as for us, first came the boom.

Ostensibly to satisfy the colonists' needs for metallic currency, but in reality for the benefit of owners of mines in Cornwall, the Royal Mint in 1688 issued tin farthings bearing the image of James II on horseback and the curious denomination of 1/24 of a Spanish real.

The killing and subsequent propaganda inflamed tensions, with gangs of colonists looking for soldiers to harass, and soldiers also on occasion looking for confrontation.

The struggle of the Xhosa peoples against the Cape colonists lasted for a century, but eventually they were defeated and their territories were annexed by the Cape Colony.