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Example sentences for "colonial expansion"

  • But in its policy of colonial expansion, during the last twenty years of the 19th century, France constantly encountered England all over the globe.

  • The best type of colonial expansion is found among the English-speaking people of America, Australia and South Africa.

  • Doubtless the principal cause of this Viking movement is to be sought in the same hunger for land which prompted the Germanic invasions and, in fact, has led to colonial expansion in all ages.

  • How did the founding of the Hellenistic cities continue the earlier colonial expansion of Greece?

  • Her period of colonial expansion, Algeria apart, did not come until after the Franco-Prussian War and the death of her ambition for a Rhine frontier.

  • Inimical as the national principle is to the carrying out either of a visionary or a predatory foreign policy in Europe, it does not imply any similar hostility to a certain measure of colonial expansion.

  • What, for instance, are the limits of a practicable policy of colonial expansion?

  • Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.

  • His political sagacity should have led him to see the value of colonial expansion, and his willingness to advance faithful followers should have brought Champlain something better than his pension and the title of Geographer.

  • Long before the Goodspeed, the Discovery and the Sarah Constant turned their prows into the waters of the James, able English writers were urging upon the nation the absolute necessity for colonial expansion.

  • For the present they accepted this one product of their experiment in colonial expansion, reluctantly and with keen disappointment, as the best that could be obtained.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been talkin; clean shirt; colonial administration; colonial affairs; colonial days; colonial empire; colonial expansion; colonial government; colonial life; colonial office; colonial policy; colonial secretary; decisive blow; further examination; going ashore; happy smile; junior year; matter what; might never; powdered loaf; public officer; send over; stone house; subsequent letter; trap door; when thus