Sentence examples for years of colonisation from inspiring English sources

When she falls in love, it is with the wildly inappropriate Jack Langland, a neighbour who is "half darkie", product of a union between his father and an Aborigine woman in the first years of colonisation.

They call for revision of textbooks to reflect aboriginal groups' contribution to building the country, especially during the early years of colonisation, when European settlers needed their help to survive.

During early years of colonisation, the surrounding trees were cut down and the river's gravel used in road making and construction of buildings.

Boumediene meant to loosen the stranglehold the French language had on the young nation after 132 years of institutional colonisation.

During the early years of Dutch colonisation in southern Africa, hyenas (referred to as "wolves" by the colonists) were especially susceptible to trapping, as their prediliction for carrion and lack of caution about enclosed spaces worked against them.

Set in the early years of the European colonisation of New Zealand, 30-ish Scottish woman Ada (Holly Hunter) hasn't spoken a word since she was six years old.

"The moment has come today for all Venetians," said Venetist Achille Tramarin at the time, "to take back control of our natural and human resources after 113 years of unitary Italian colonisation; to fight against the wild exploitation that brought us misery, emigration, pollution... .. Four years later, during the 1983 elections, Liga Veneta won a surprising percentage of the vote.

During the early years of the Dutch colonisation of the East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), many people of Chinese descent were contracted as skilled artisans in the construction of Batavia on the northwestern coast of Java; they also served as traders, sugar mill workers, and shopkeepers.

North Korea's antipathy towards Japan was ingrained after years of, at times, brutal colonisation from the 1900s to the end of the second world war.

Historically, New Zealand was dominated by forest below the alpine treeline, but about 1000 years of Polynesian and European colonisation has resulted in the destruction of nearly three-quarters of the indigenous forest cover.

We observe that the natural history of S. flexneri is characterised by long term (in some cases over 100 years) colonisation of individual countries demonstrating that it is far older, and far more diverse than S. sonnei.