Sentence examples for colony rule from inspiring English sources

Also, though it might be an advantage to have right-hand-drive, bear in mind that only a quarter of the world drives on the left, mostly old British colonies (Japan is an exception to the colony rule).

Unlike Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, it was never a religious colony ruled by the moral code of a single homogeneous elite.

Gambia is a former British colony ruled by the same regime since President Yayha Jammeh seized power in a 1994 coup.

We have the full support of all the saints [islanders].' But St Helena is an old-style colony, ruled by a UK-appointed governor and an elite of expat administrators.

From what my colleagues have been able to ascertain, on Saturday morning 250 inmates went into the hallways to begin a protest, demanding that several of their fellow prisoners be released from solitary confinement, where they had been placed for violating colony rules.

The financial crisis of the great depression had led the Dominion of Newfoundland to relinquish responsible government in 1934 and become a crown colony ruled by a British governor.

The empire, we are informed, "dissolved peacefully as colony by colony slipped out of colonial rule into independence".

Gandhi arrived in a deeply divided and inequitable South Africa, carved up into separate colonies, ruled by British expatriates and Afrikaners of Dutch descent.

Ukrainians were not used to being treated like the population of a "colony of rule".

Demonstrators are pressing Beijing to make good on its promise to Great Britain to provide what London never did while the territory was a British colony: democratic rule and free elections.

So, while Pat did her work at Yaddo and did it religiously (in every sense of the word), she also systematically violated the colony's rules.