Sentence examples for into the colonies from inspiring English sources

"The English who went out into the colonies became disdainful of the locals.

Imperial prohibitions proved unable to stop the flow of potentially subversive English, French, and North American works into the colonies of Latin America.

During the height of the French and Indian War, which lasted from 1754 until 1763, money flooded into the colonies, especially New York, where the British Army was headquartered.

In 1733 the British Parliament adopted a still more serious measure, the Molasses Act, which placed heavy duties on all sugar, molasses, rum, and other spirits imported into the colonies from the French, Dutch, and Spanish possessions.

Actually a reinvigoration of the largely ineffective Molasses Act of 1733, the Sugar Act provided for strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources.

In 1767 Charles Townshend, then chancellor of exchequer, levied duties on certain imports into the colonies, including a duty on tea, and linked this proposal with plans to remodel colonial government.

When the "Topsoilers" do finally get down into the colony, it all becomes fantastic fun.

The French brought Alawites into the colony's military to help control the Sunnis.

"These apprenticeships", he complained, "have after 16 years successful struggle at last introduced actual slavery into the colony".

When the bereft parent wanders off into the colony, its neighbors peck at it for intruding on their territory.

By 1906, Britain controlled Nigeria, which was divided into the Colony (i.e., Lagos) and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria.