The older Greek colonising had here confined itself merely to the coast.
In the north of England there seems to have been very much colonising of the waste, perhaps because original settlements were small.
The first important fact bearing upon this question is the wonderful aggressive and colonising power of the Scandinavian flora, as shown by the way in which it establishes itself in any temperate country to which it may gain access.
This colonising policy was carried out by Albuquerque both for moral and political reasons, but it was not approved by all the other Portuguese officers in India.
The railway has also been auxiliary to the colonising movement, stimulating the creation of new settlements along its track by concessions of soil.
Kirness), recently published, imagines a "colonising invasion" of Australia by Japan.
Japan, when concealment is no longer possible, officially states through its Ambassador in London that, quite without authority from the Mikado, a private colonising organisation had settled a body of Japanese in the Northern Territory.
Why Great Britain entered so reluctantly into the Pacific as a colonising Power may probably be explained by the fact that at the time the ocean came to be exploited British earth hunger had been satiated.
America, considered in its two sections, Latin America and Anglo-Saxon America, gives a good opportunity for comparison of colonising methods.
The effect of this mixture of the British colonising type with a type somewhat akin to the Japanese will be interesting to watch.
From the details I have already given respecting Bonaparte's plans for colonising Egypt, it will be seen that his energy of mind urged him to adopt anticipatory measures for the accomplishment of objects which were never realised.
The Dutch title to these islands was thereby lawfully extinguished, and New Zealand, Van Dieman's Land, and Australia became for geographical and colonising purposes portions of the British Empire.
But be that as it may, it still remains that from this date the Company and its colonisingscheme received no quarter from the Colonial Secretary nor from the Department while he was at its head.
That the right of extinguishing the native title rested solely with the Crown was a sounder contention, based upon principles deep set in constitutional law, and supported by the practice of all colonising nations.
In consequence of that statement, a member of the committee spoke to him upon the subject of colonising New Zealand.
Everywhere they would be confronted with the labour struggle, for we were no longer the sole, or even the principal, colonising people; masses of Germans and other thrifty colonising races were now found in every distant land.
He is full of politics, and thinks the French will get rid of their domestic difficulties by colonising Africa, and does not see why they should not as well as the Romans; but he seems a better antiquary than politician.
At this moment he is full of the French expedition [to Algiers], and their colonising projects, of which he is thoroughly persuaded and not a little afraid.
With the advent of the 'seventies, Auckland may be said to have arrived at the modern period; the previous thirty years being now looked upon as the colonising era.
It is both foolish and unscientific to disregard this element of propaganda in the imperialist movement, still more to treat the assertion of it by the colonising powers as mere hypocrisy.
Austria, which has never been a nation-state, never became a colonising power.
They were carried out, in a curious revival of the methods of the seventeenth century, by means of a series of colonising companies which Wakefield promoted.
The fourth of the governing motives of imperial expansion is the need of finding new homes for the surplus population of the colonising people.
Thus the political situation in Europe had a very direct influence upon the colonising activity of this period.
And in the course of their experience the colonising peoples have gradually worked out certain principles in their treatment of subject peoples, which ought to be of use to us.
To these years also belonged the definite, and most unfortunate, emergence of Italy as a colonising power.
It is no mere coincidence that all the great colonising powers have been unified nation-states, and that their imperial activities have been most vigorous when the national sentiment was at its strongest among them.
Now, a brief glance at the great eras of exploring and colonising activity will show that in all these three directions the last thirty years have presented advantages which are unique in the history of the world.
The two greatcolonising and conquering movements of recent times are those which have proceeded from London and Moscow as starting-points.
It is, however, needful to observe the means by which she was able to survive the dire perils of her early youth and to develop the colonising and conquering agencies of her maturer years.
The United States, after recovering from the Civil War and completing their work of internal development, enter the lists as a colonising Power, and drive forth Spain from two of her historic possessions.
There was therefore the less need officially to curb the colonising instinct of the Teutonic people.
Of these, Mr. Greenshields, whose estancia or farm we visited later, owned the credit of having broken new ground in colonising a part of the country some one hundred and fifty miles south of the Welsh settlement of Trelew.
I would, therefore, include the name of the Waldron family, who have taken a large part in settling the southern districts of Patagonia and also in the colonising of Tierra del Fuego.
The government found all their plans for increasing the population and colonising the country thwarted by the nomadic habits of a restless youth.
This was the end of Alexander's experiment in colonising Acadia and founding a colonial noblesse.
Such colonising is a direct national gain, benefiting all classes.
He made the fatal mistake of so many others, of converting a colonising expedition into one of mere buccaneering.
All La Salle's possessions in Canada were restored, and he was commissioned to conduct a party for the purpose of colonising some strip of territory upon the Mexican Gulf.
Or they may have feared to provoke the jealousy of the Tyrrhenians, off whose coast the island lay, and who, without having any colonising spirit themselves, disliked the too near approach of rivals.
A rival to her power would have sprung up in the West, which would have crippled her commerce in that quarter, and checked her colonising energy.
Crete, however, does not appear to have been occupied by the Phoenicians at more than a few points, or for colonisingso much as for trading purposes.
Thus, by degrees, all the northern and western, together with part of the southern shores, came to be roughly explored, and the Dutch even had some idea of colonising this continent.
The name chosen for the city was Auckland, after a gentleman named Eden, who had taken for half a century a deep interest in colonising experiments, and who had been raised to the peerage with the title of Lord Auckland.
Both are abroad on the business of their colonising scheme.
The promotors failed in their endeavours, and one of them went to England with the hopes of better success; he also failed in his efforts, and the great colonising scheme was abandoned.
It is plain that Gilbert's application was promptly attended to, for we find him presently in a position to pursue the colonising enterprises which lay so near to his heart.
The name of Gilbert deserves to be better remembered than it is; and America, at least, will one day be constrained to honour the memory of the man who was the first to dream of colonising her shores.
At the death of Gilbert, his schemes as a colonising navigator passed, as by inheritance, to Raleigh.
It was now thirteen years since Raleigh had abandoned the hope of colonising Virginia, though his thoughts had often reverted to that savage country, of which he was the nominal liege lord.
The trees most fortunate in scattering their seeds, and thus colonising new territory, have peculiar devices.
The shedding of their twigs at the season when they are fullest of life is the tree's method of colonising new territory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
