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Example sentences for "colonialism"

Lexicographically close words:
colones; coloni; coloniae; colonial; coloniale; colonias; colonie; colonies; colonisation; colonise
  1. Perhaps no event in the long centuries of colonialism gives more hope for the pattern of the future than the independence of the Philippines.

  2. I have already spoken of both India and Egypt in other articles, and I only refer to the subject here in order to draw a contrast between colonialism as applied to Canada and colonialism as it is seen in India.

  3. There are a few Americans engaged in business in Manila and at other army posts, but these are insignificant in number and the business done by them is nothing as compared with the cost of colonialism to the United States.

  4. The culture system, aside from the indirect method of ruling, is the distinguishing feature of Dutch colonialism as it existed until recent years.

  5. He broke through the narrow trammels of colonialism himself, but the colonial spirit hung just as heavily upon the feeble literature about him.

  6. He understood certain phases of American character on the prairie and the ocean, and his genius was no longer smothered by the dead colonialism of the past.

  7. We had torn up colonialism in our public affairs by the roots, and we had crushed out the colonial spirit in our politics.

  8. The neutrality policy of Washington's administration was a great advance toward independence and a severe blow to colonialism in politics.

  9. In the years which followed the close of the war, it seemed as if colonialism had been utterly extinguished: but, unfortunately, this was not the case.

  10. I have entitled them collectively "Colonialism in the United States," a description which is perhaps more comprehensive than satisfactory or exact.

  11. In 1890 Laurier, as we have seen, believed the Canadian future was to be that of colonialism for an indefinite period and then independence.

  12. The colonialism of the French-Canadians was immitigable and ingrained.

  13. Heretofore Canada had blazed the trail that led from colonialism to nationhood.

  14. Colonialism had only inertia in its favour.

  15. If it sounds like colonialism and has the same economic effects - it is colonialism.

  16. The absurd is that - because colonialism is not politically correct and is condemned by all with great vehemence - the colonial powers of today are castrated.

  17. It is a throwback to earlier days of colonialism and mercantilism and it is laden with historical memories and sensitivities.

  18. To achieve this goal, colonialism must be revived.

  19. French colonialism and had given indirect but powerful encouragement to Viet Minh's rebellion against the French.

  20. The third category is, of course, the special case presented by the Indian-Pakistani fighting which is a struggle between Asian nationalisms without much intervention from either European colonialism or Communism.

  21. Since the driving force of colonialism itself was economic exploitation, it was perhaps inevitable that most movements of liberation assumed a broadly socialistic ideological cast.

  22. Among the chief developments giving substance to it, the Master may well have had in mind the dramatic extinction of colonialism and the consequent rise of self-determination as a dominant feature of national identity at century’s end.

  23. The payment for Louisiana precluded, in their opinion, the support of a respectable navy; and the remnants of colonialism in their party predisposed them to adopt an ostrich policy instead.

  24. If the essential characteristic of colonialism is the sense of dependence and the desire to imitate, democracy, at least in its earlier phases, begets the opposite qualities.

  25. Owing, it may be, to the consciousness of strength, which is a precious result of the war the British clergyman denounced thus eloquently, the last tie of colonialism which bound us to the mother-country is broken.

  26. In Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge's interesting and stimulant volume called Studies in History there is no essay more interesting or more stimulating than that on "Colonialism in the United States.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonialism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.