Sentence examples for under british colonial from inspiring English sources

UNDER British colonial rule Sittwe, or Akyab as it was then called, was one of the busiest ports in Burma, or Myanmar as it is now called.

Its style evokes the tropics under British colonial rule.

Under British colonial rule the man known to all as "C.Y".

Even under British colonial rule, Mahatma Gandhi was a severe critic of Indian officialdom.

Under British colonial rule, economic power and education were concentrated in the south.

It boasts a waterfront location and a décor that evokes the tropics under British colonial rule.

The police have relied on a strong public image as a force that provided middle-class jobs for large numbers of local residents, starting under British colonial rule.

Under British colonial rule, before independence in 1948, Rangoon (as it was then) was a thriving, cosmopolitan entrepot, the capital of Burma, one of the region's wealthiest countries.

All the tribal territories east of the Great Kei River were reduced to the status of tribal reserves under British colonial administration.

I first remember feeling that during his speech in Selma, Ala., in March 2007, when he poignantly recalled his grandfather living under British colonial rule in Kenya.

Under British colonial rule, a 1929 treaty reserved 80 percent of the Nile's entire flow for Egypt and Sudan, then ruled as a single country.