Sentence examples for colonizers from inspiring English sources

Second, given cultural, linguistic, and often religious differences between colonizers and colonized, the colonizers are unlikely to sympathize with the native peoples and are likely to act tyrannically.

Similarly, games between formerly colonized nations and their former colonizers, such as cricket matches between India and England, tend to become rites of passage and are imbued with a heightened sense of symbolism.

Motivated, in part, by a desire to purge local populations of allegedly barbaric, uncivilized customs and mores, colonizers also knew that the best way to mitigate resistance by the colonized was to eradicate as far as possible all traces of the former way of life.

Sixteenth-century Spanish colonizers spread Christianity to the northern islands, treating the Muslims as a despised minority, and the area has seen periodic violence ever since.

Although Japan's limited natural resources offered no major temptation to colonizers, Western nations increased pressure on Japan to open its ports.

The Narraganset maintained good relations with English colonizers until King Philip's War in 1675 76, in which they joined with other tribes in attempting to limit colonial expansion.

A related factor is Phoenician influence (related, because the early Phoenicians were great colonizers, who must often have met trading Greeks).

Spanish and Portuguese monarchs included missionaries among the colonizers sent to the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and French merchant interests sponsored missionaries in areas that the French explored.

The colonizers retreated from the region for several years but completed a reconquest in 1691.

Species found at lower elevations are often widespread colonizers of disturbed or successional habitats.

The presence of a "dual tradition" in Irish writing has been important in shaping and inflecting the material written in English, the language of Ireland's colonizers.