I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a colonial empire (= a group of countries ruled by another country that is far away )
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France had a huge colonial empire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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administration
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With respect to other aspects of colonial administration , his proposals were a little bolder.
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The local magnates exercised a limited but real authority entirely independent of the colonial administration .
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Nor was Britain the only colonial power to incorporate existing native rulers into a system of colonial administration .
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It meant that colonial administrations had an extremely difficult time controlling these peoples.
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Furthermore, much of the writing and even foreign staff in conservation institutions are derived directly from colonial administrations .
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Decolonisation meant that, by and large, independent states were created out of existing areas of colonial administration , within their colonial frontiers.
administrator
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There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers, merchants and colonial administrators rather than landed gentry.
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I believe I can read the names of a few redundant colonial administrators .
authority
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This dash for colonial territories was not always as profitable as the colonial authorities might have wished.
country
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It must be consciously incorporated into the strategy of building revolutionary Marxist parties in colonial countries . 14.
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The main center of the revolutionary movement thereupon shifted for the time being to the colonial countries .
days
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She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family.
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In colonial days the Presbyterians had mastered the competitive revivalist styles; now they carried their learned ministry to the West.
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No doubt it is difficult for young people now to appreciate the complexities and the rigidities of the social structure in colonial days .
domination
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In this way, some of the ideological constructs of colonial domination have become so naturalised that we hardly notice them.
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They are expected suddenly to adapt to the modern world after a century of colonial domination and outside interference.
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A small, mountainous country with a population of under three million people, it has long been free from colonial domination .
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To the victims, the abstract Leftism of some of the Bolsheviks seemed in practice much the same as colonial domination .
empire
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War and cold war had some progressive effects with the colonial empires .
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But this was even more striking in the colonial empires .
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As noted in chapter 1, much of this interest in modernisation was prompted by the decline of the old colonial empires .
era
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Largely established during the colonial era , it hardly changed at all after independence.
experience
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What these children face is a kind of colonial experience which they are far too young to fight against.
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It featured a series of comedy skits and a half-dozen songs, all loosely recounting the colonial experience .
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The colonial experience gave him material for his propositions about colonial nationalism, the subject which he quickly made his own.
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Third World taxes have grown out of the colonial experience .
government
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Above all else, colonial governments were brutal and culturally limited.
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A perception of the bureaucrat's power resources is another characteristic feature of some theories of colonial government .
governor
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The only real difference would be that the colonial governors sent to deal with the locals back then usually wore pith helmets.
master
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But, in time, even the colonial masters were overthrown in their cricketing dominance by mere colonials.
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It was a land with no nascent art, save the reflected mirror of its colonial masters .
official
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On some occasions lands were taken by colonial officials without the blessing of their authorities.
past
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The steamship and the railway, the legacy of the colonial past and the expansive power of commerce make this inevitable.
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Children of employees on the large commercial farms - still mainly run by whites - suffer problems left from the colonial past .
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The history of cricket in Menorca is closely linked with the island's colonial past .
period
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These 4,505 persons are treated as representative of persons considered responsible for crime during the mature colonial period .
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The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period .
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Education was very limited during the colonial period , and mainly in the hands of missionaries.
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During the colonial period , those powers were possessed exclusively by and were entirely under the control of the Crown.
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It was only towards the end of the colonial period that the notion of a public corporation was raised.
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Both prospered in the colonial period as free ports.
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Population anxiety among the ruling classes was crystallized during the colonial periods of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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The importance of graphite mining declined late in the colonial period .
policy
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Even the Republic had felt far from confident about forming a long-term colonial policy .
possession
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A Zoological Society was founded in London in 1826 to act as a showcase for Britain's colonial possessions .
power
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Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations.
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Nor was Britain the only colonial power to incorporate existing native rulers into a system of colonial administration.
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This is especially dangerous in a region where political frontiers, arbitrarily drawn by old colonial powers , divide the tribes.
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There was some variation in this regard as different colonial powers pursued different expansionist policies.
regime
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They were frequently imposed by colonial regimes using force where necessary.
revolution
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Yet the high tide of nationalism was still to come, from two World Wars and the colonial revolution .
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The colonial revolution could not by its own forces bring about the downfall of imperialism.
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This effectively barred an alliance with the fighting elements of the colonial revolution .
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The influence of the colonial revolution on the awakening masses of the workers' states has been complex and many-sided.
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In general the colonial revolution has helped to overcome lethargy and the feeling of political impotence.
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The evolution of the colonial revolution .
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But this does not mean that the colonial revolution has not affected the mechanism of the imperialist economy.
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There is recognition of the political resistance at home to waging wars against the colonial revolution in the name of anticommunism.
rule
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Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule .
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Critics say that Cable &038; Wireless never adjusted to the loss of its traditional dominance in Hong Kong under colonial rule .
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His Mirror Group papers were non-partisan, but they were, equally, not identified with colonial rule .
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During seventy years of colonial rule , no university had been established.
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During colonial rule the people and the leaders had struggled together as one.
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The stratagem on the whole worked and served to defuse hostility to colonial rule .
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Many Malays were descendants of men first brought to Sri Lanka as soldiers in the earlier days of colonial rule .
ruler
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There was never much doubt about which language the colonial rulers would use in local administration.
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After years of persecution by colonial rulers , Orisha worshipers only recently had their religion officially recognized by the government.
society
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Abolitionists thus aspired to make their actual metropolitan and colonial societies conform more closely to these underlying ideas of order.
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Both are born into colonial societies ordered by traditional social systems of hierarchy and male domination and by strong, fundamentalist religion.
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A third group are the colonialists and the neo-colonialists with experience of colonial societies .
state
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The colonial state was not only overdeveloped as a whole.
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The colonial state also invested heavily in infrastructure such as railways and ports.
system
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It was our colonial system which created export-based farming and the tax systems which continued the depopulation of the villages.
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The whole colonial system was set up to exploit and so it continues.
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This undermining of the colonial system was accelerated further by the formation in 1919 of the Communist International.
territory
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General Booth's Salvationist doctrine was a notable example, recommending mass emigration from the city slums to virgin colonial territories .
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This dash for colonial territories was not always as profitable as the colonial authorities might have wished.
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In colonial territories , railways were often the largest employers of labour.
times
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We are talking now not simply of state societies but of nation states and, especially in colonial times , of empires.
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Only the Founding Fathers with their Enlightenment experiments significantly pushed beyond the bounds in colonial times .
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Nsefu is Luangwa's oldest camp and was set up by conservationist Norman Carr during colonial times .
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Poverty, particularly among poor women and children, has been a fact of life in this society since colonial times .
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Indeed, they date way back to colonial times .
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In colonial times , Western missionaries would dash off to bastions of other faiths to preach the Gospel.
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Just as they were in colonial times .
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Aid for the poor, particularly poor women and children, has been problematic since colonial times .
war
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Historians have since described and explained how torture was a loathsome, almost automatic feature of colonial wars .
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The prospect of colonial war became his new cause.
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What is happening now is a continuation of the colonial war that Moscow relaunched in 1999 to get Putin elected.
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Certainly the struggle for overseas investment opportunities provoked tensions; and small colonial wars could yield large profits.
world
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During the cold war, and to a great extent because of it, the colonial world achieved political independence.
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We have always ascribed great importance to the national question in the colonial world .
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London: Granta, 1998. 19 Hoogvelt A.. Globalisation and the post-colonial world .
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And their assistance to imperialism will not be limited to the colonial world . 3.
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The colonial world can be hit by a shortage in chemical fertilizers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Colonial -style brick house
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The goal of the uprising was to overthrow the colonial government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both are born into colonial societies ordered by traditional social systems of hierarchy and male domination and by strong, fundamentalist religion.
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Captain Dean voices the sentiment of centuries of colonial soldiery.
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During seventy years of colonial rule, no university had been established.
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It is a system that smacks of the company stores of colonial times.
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Numerous programs for increasing the white population were debated in the colonial assembly, but no resolution was adopted.
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The North receives a kind of colonial tribute in debt service, whilst getting its raw materials at rock-bottom prices.
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Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule.
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They were frequently imposed by colonial regimes using force where necessary.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although they hail from Quebec, the hurdy-gurdy of this ensemble is sure to pass muster with the average colonial .
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But, in time, even the colonial masters were overthrown in their cricketing dominance by mere colonials.
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He is perhaps too generous to the colonials.
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The colonials of yore had fun, too.
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The interest in birds that he shared with them transcended all prejudices and the racism rife among the resident colonials.