Sentence examples for imperialist from inspiring English sources

The contradiction clamoured: the imperialist who wanted to withdraw from the far east, the apparently cold man who once burst into passionate tears in the Commons, the confirmed anti-planner who took on the essentially planning job of minister of health in 1960.

On the best interpretation Powell, a man of strong imperialist sympathies, was ungenerous in treating the post-imperial human legacy with such cynical or at least selfish disregard.

The rebels accuse the United States of imperialist meddling, and consider Americans among their most prized hostages.

WikiLeaks revealed much about America's "imperialist" stance in the Middle East, but it was mostly embarrassing gossip.

In all this Stalin was returning to pre-Revolutionary tsarist policy: Russia's colonisation of Siberia in the 17th century and Muslim Asia in the 19th was no longer condemned as imperialist expansion but celebrated for setting these traditional societies on the path of progressive modernisation.

The Soviet propaganda machine was in full flow, claiming wholehearted public support for "fraternal assistance" to Czechoslovak friends beset by imperialist plots.

Predictably, many anti-imperialist leftists reacted to the news by patronising the Ukrainians: how deluded they are still to idealise Europe, not to be able to see that joining the EU would just make Ukraine an economic colony of western Europe, sooner or later to go the same way as Greece.

But even the stoutest anti-imperialist in any former British colony has to admit that the empire left us a rather wonderful language.

Hardly anybody eats the stuff beyond a few old duffers nostalgic for the bad old days when protein was scarce, and a few ridiculous rump-imperialist uyoku.

Four years later, at a similar summit in Trinidad, Chávez presented Barack Obama with an anti-imperialist tract.Mr Obama's staff doubtless thought that their boss would be greeted as a hero at the latest summit in Panama, to be held on April 10th and 11th.

But anti-imperialist solidarity only goes so far: domestic outrage has prevented either man from offering him a definite invitation.