Sentence examples for for a colonial from inspiring English sources

Brochures are awash with nostalgia for a colonial dreamworld, the myth of the wilderness.

I am now an honorary fellow of my old college which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me".

I also take issue with his contention that "brochures … awash with nostalgia for a colonial dream world" are the norm.

In 2007, a national immigration museum opened in the Porte Dorée, an Art Deco palace in eastern Paris which was built for a colonial exposition in 1931.

Yet it was the most comprehensive law code ever instituted for a colonial empire and set forth humane (if often ignored) principles for treatment of Indians.

(The cost would generally be less for a house with an existing forced-air system and more for a colonial that required an additional air handler).

Mr. Good, for instance, says Sterling Lake has been around for more than 200 years, created by a small dam built for a colonial-era gristmill.

Benjamin Banneker High, named for a colonial-era African-American mathematician, astronomer and surveyor, is one of Washington's elite public schools, with a rigorous curriculum based on college prep and International Baccalaureate courses.

It was named for a colonial-era Portuguese governor who built a sugarcane plantation there, but nowadays Ilha is at the edge of the sprawling metropolis of Rio, linked to the mainland by bridges and raised highways.

Admiral Nelson on his column currently shares the square with a giant model of his ship in a bottle, perched on the Fourth Plinth — a site that had been earmarked for a colonial-era notable but is now used for modern art.

It didn't take long for them to start giving him costumes for Christmas: a "Colonial Boy" blue-and-white outfit complete with tricorn hat.