colonial

Example Sentences

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Their designs also opened a window into the colonial invasions of India between the 16th and 19th Centuries by the Dutch, Portuguese, French and the British.

From BBC

King Louis XVI deprived his European rival of its colonial jewel but lost his kingdom and his head.

From The Wall Street Journal

A sacred drum looted by French forces during its colonial rule in Ivory Coast has been returned to the country, more than a century after it was taken.

From BBC

That more complicated framing is navigable—especially considering the country’s colonial past, lasting global impact, and unparalleled diversity—but only when a laserlike focus is brought to the project.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sudan has been at war in some form or another most of the time since its independence from British colonial rule in 1956 – 58 out of the past 70 years.

From BBC