Sentence examples for imperialist influence from inspiring English sources

Ruling by decree, he implemented measures to remove what he viewed as foreign imperialist influence from Libya, and strengthened ties to Arab nationalist governments.

Terms used to label homosexuals are often rejected by Indian activists for being the result of imperialist influence, but most discourse on homosexuality centers on men.

Despite Kim's Gogigyeopbbang, North Korea had a longstanding ban on fast food, which it considered to be an evil "Imperialist influence".

Such attempts to form a working relationship with the RCC failed; Gaddafi was determined to reassert national sovereignty and expunge what he described as foreign colonial and imperialist influences.

The Great – tyrannical, murderous, borderline-insane – leader of the People's Republic allows its presence because the country is so desperate for western technology that it is willing to risk some of its students (sons, mainly, of the political and military elite, who have most to lose if the status quo is ever challenged) being exposed to imperialist ideas and influences.

The Brooklyn Museum went on a mini-spree of acquisition for a show focused on Hispanic imperialists who flaunted wealth and influence.

He condemns India as "an occupying imperialist power", but he is largely a moderating influence.

Afghanistan, a poor and landlocked country, appears to be positioned for another round of what 19th-century imperialists called the Great Game, the battle for influence by outsiders, once mostly the Russians and the British, over a defiant land that a British viceroy once called a poisoned chalice.

Scholars have commented upon the film's extensive use of pataphysical and anti-imperialist satire, as well as on its wide influence on later film-makers and its artistic significance within the French theatrical féerie tradition.

Mao also read a pamphlet by the Chinese revolutionary Chen Tianhua, which recounted China's loss of sovereignty to Japanese and European imperialists; Mao claimed that this was a great influence on him, for after reading it "I felt depressed about the future of my country and began to realize that it was the duty of all the people to help save it".

Mr Putin also took a swipe at the United States for its perceived imperialist foreign policy and meddling in Russia's sphere of influence, noting that Russia does "not aspire to be called some kind of superpower".