In colonial Burma, valuable resources of oil, tin, and rubber were more fully exploited and commercial rice cultivation was developed. |
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Some Late Precambrian Ediacaran fossils bear strong resemblances to colonial coelenterates called pennatulids, or sea pens. |
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The latter examples suggest that any Congolese male could be pressed into service, as indeed was the case throughout the colonial era. |
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Ostensibly, the theme of the exhibit was the effect of colonialism on Africa, particularly at the height of the colonial period. |
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It is a vindication that the colonial mindset and slavish mentality are still alive among some Indians. |
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It evolved during the colonial era as the standard language of government and education. |
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The Albany Congress approved the Albany Plan of Union, but when it was sent to the colonial legislatures it failed to win their approval. |
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Britain's colonial policy was shaped by a desire to limit the evil effects of the felonry on Maori. |
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British influence, with wooden jalousies, wide porches, and patterned railings and fretwork, dominated urban architecture in the colonial period. |
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In 1808 Sierra Leone became a British crown colony, ruled under a colonial governor. |
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By the start of the last century, colonial India's hill stations were strung out all over the subcontinent. |
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In good old colonial fashion, the British have always scorned their transatlantic cousins. |
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Now I have to admit, I had never caught a European zander, although I had caught their close colonial cousins, the walleye. |
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Most scholarship has focused on the nature of poor relief in colonial cities and seaports, and not in rural and interior towns. |
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In much of the third world, poverty can be directly linked to the expropriation of resources during colonial periods. |
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A second type of colony that existed in the English colonial system was the proprietary colony. |
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Economically, the colonial trade had already peaked, and failure to compete industrially with Great Britain was increasingly manifest. |
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The colonial government began reforestation in the 1870s and made good progress until World War II, when many trees were felled for fuel. |
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The comfort and convenience of modern housing may make it difficult to understand the importance of fire to life in the colonial era. |
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Many of his forebears had colonial ties and his father spent his career in India. |
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The two cousins and their jennet symbolically parallel the uneasy relations between colonial tourist and colonized native. |
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Cliff swallows are highly colonial passerines that breed throughout most of western North America. |
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The city's colonial past means most world cuisines are represented, from French haute cuisine to Indonesian rijsttafel. |
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On the other hand, from early colonial times, and certainly from the gold rush, Australia was also known for its self-made men of wealth. |
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This is first time that the locals won a victory after several hundred years of colonial rule by white people. |
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In colonial and antebellum America, slaves could buy their freedom, but only with the acquiescence of their masters. |
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Predictably, French was then repositioned as a colonial language imposed on Guadeloupean people, a source of division and confusion. |
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For Earle, the second republican period represents the Golden Age of the colonial economy. |
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The mid-century domestic political upheavals in France altered the pace and nature of the French colonial impact in North Africa. |
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Since colonial times, much of the land surrounding the bay has been used for agriculture. |
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One doesn't expect Iraq's new colonial administrators to make things difficult for their paymasters, guarantors and securitors. |
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These colonial machinations resulted in mass poverty, exploitation and oppression as the basic facts of life for the African. |
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This is a slide of Obelia, a colonial marine cnidarian that shows a distinct polymorphism in the organization of its members. |
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The end of this period of salutary neglect marked the beginning of a new era of British innovations in colonial policy. |
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Another feature that is quite common in Hydrozoa but not typical of Scyphozoa is colonial organization. |
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During the colonial period, it was believed that colonists and priests stole people's fat to make church bells or holy oil. |
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The rivalry between the European colonial powers in Africa reached a peak in these unclaimed and unexplored regions of the equatorial belt. |
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The pinnacle of hydrozoan colonial complexity can be found in members of the Family Siphonophora. |
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The unsuccessful campaign ended disastrously with the death of five-sixths of the colonial soldiery. |
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He was one of the most controversial figures in colonial religious and political history. |
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Everything from citrus-colored sandals to spacey, iridescently rainbow platforms to classic colonial or Edwardian-style pumps were in demand. |
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Complexity in colonial organisms is often equated with the degree of integration in polymorphs. |
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The 1950s is the moment when we felt ourselves emancipated from the colonial past. |
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In ministerial posts under Aberdeen and Palmerston, including colonial secretary, he stood out as an administrative reformer and economizer. |
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The neighborhoods built during colonial times have narrow streets with continuous building facades that converge on central plazas. |
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Gradually, a sort of entente seemed to grow between it and the colonial enemy. |
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Was there really a market, even in Sri Lanka, for a genuine, galleried, verandahed and slightly dog-eared, colonial hotel? |
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The Prince makes it his business to protect the captain as he thinks he will save his people from colonial rule. |
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And once the colonial powers had established their dominance, most of them settled for a subaltern role which left their local hegemony intact. |
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In the name of press freedom and nationalism we deliberately wrote seditious and criminally libellous articles against colonial governments. |
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A tiger hunt was something Indian kings organised to honour their imperial guests, a colonial equivalent of a banquet. |
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The Commonwealth became the regional power, exercising colonial rule in Papua, then in New Guinea and in Nauru. |
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During the colonial period, heavy breakfast meals of hoecakes and molasses were prepared to fuel the slaves for work from sunup to sundown. |
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Outside the museum is a model of a shearing shed from the colonial period with the blades for shearing and a wool press. |
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As a result of early colonial policies of divide and conquer, the regional governments tended to be drawn along ethnic lines. |
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A central column of stone urns filled with spiky plants adds a colonial 1930s elegance. |
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I guess no one expected that enough Tokelauans would actually vote for colonial government. |
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The colonial state consciously forswore any attempt at intervening and averting these catastrophes. |
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The Africans began to see themselves not as Hausas, Igbos, or Yorubas, but as Nigerians in a common struggle against their colonial rulers. |
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One of the problems that cricket faces in Africa is a perception that it's a carry-over from previous colonial regimes. |
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You are just looking at these old cases where judges in the grip of colonial mentality applied English law. |
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Then the colonial governments had the idea, benignly intended, of protecting the peasant growers from the fluctuations of the marketplace. |
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The book also focusses on the numerous battles that were waged for power and dominance between various colonial forces. |
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The decline in status that colonial life entailed must have dealt a severe blow to their aspirations. |
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Consequently, Britain had secured for herself a vast colonial empire whereas Germany had very little. |
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A dozen men armed with clubs set upon a corporal in the colonial militia when he tried to execute a sentence on a man delinquent in his duty. |
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Western colonial governments of old had to look out for rebellions fomented by the ulema. |
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The issue was particularly sensitive in Iran because of a long history of colonial extraterritorial rights. |
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Thereafter, colonial censors turned their attention more closely to stamping out obscene literature. |
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Like Delhi, almost all big Indian cities have inherited cantonments, the colonial military stations. |
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Conflict in Angola flared up in the 1960s during the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial domination. |
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Apart from forest controls, colonial regulations sharply circumscribed elephant hunting and ivory procurement at the turn of the century. |
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You can't help being intrigued by an early New Zealand dish called colonial goose. |
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The term colonial goose must already have been in common use in the 1890s, cropping up in a story by Rudyard Kipling. |
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His name is probably unfamiliar to most Indonesians because he lived during the Dutch colonial times. |
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The covenant implied that the ultimate goal of the tutelary relationship was to educate the colonial peoples to political independence. |
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But the colonial anthropologist came to be in something of a tutelary relationship with a younger scholar from England. |
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It was the first and last glimpse of the subcontinent for millions of colonial servants, and it changes utterly every time I come here. |
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Some historians and political analysts assert that the US polity manifested colonial features beyond its treatment of indigenes. |
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Like his predecessor, he was a distinguished soldier without civil experience rewarded with a colonial governorship. |
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The word carries serious negative connotations that stretch back to the days of colonial Africa. |
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One day Panjim may be recognised as a masterpiece of colonial Iberian city building, although I fear this will come too late. |
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Chimalpahin wrote in an idiosyncratic Nahuatl not always found in colonial grammars and dictionaries or even in the writings of other Nahuas. |
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These people were employed by the government in the lower levels of the colonial bureaucracy and engaged in local commercial activities. |
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England has always dominated the United Kingdom, although its position has not been that of a colonial power over subject nations. |
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The old colonial building with a wild and unkempt garden around was unlit and silent. |
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Entrepreneurs, church missionaries, and the British colonial government officers soon arrived thereafter. |
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This is a perfect example of the differences in colonial rule between the British and the Dutch. |
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The architecture of Eritrean towns reflects the nation's colonial past and the shifting influence of foreign powers. |
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To build with any efficiency and skill, the colonial craftsperson needed a dexterous hand when wielding both kinds of axes. |
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He is of course, a Scots Nationalist, who wants to free his country from the colonial grip of the Sassenachs. |
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But no other book of the period offers such a perceptive account of how the colonial bourgeoisie lived and thought. |
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This paper will examine the phenomenon designated thuggee by colonial authority in nineteenth-century India. |
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It is both a wry and perceptive critique of the colonial system and a sharply observed account of childhood. |
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Even by Wanaka property standards, tilting in their more grandiose fancies towards southern Tuscan or colonial chateaux, the house is a beaut. |
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The room is done up in the old colonial style, complete with red stained wooden floors, four poster bed, wooden shutters for windows and so on. |
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Before decolonization, it was possible to believe that colonial rule was as bad a form of illiberality as could exist. |
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The ideological framework of colonial Spanish America's caste system is familiar. |
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The colonial and apartheid projects were acts of massive dislocation and re-location. |
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Between 1685 and 1763, the French colonial government issued playing cards that were redeemable for specie at a future date. |
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Domestic buildings in the Spanish colonial style are usually built of thick stone walls covered with stucco. |
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These colonial naval forces consisted in the main of torpedo boats, gunboats and other small craft. |
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She also argues for a reappraisal of the colonial past, and a transformation of the political dispensation in the future. |
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The Irish father is a brute of a colonial policeman who, when not violating his child, enjoys casually smacking her in the mouth. |
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For Stowe, this French colonial tendency to enfranchise mixed-race slaves went hand-in-hand with the history of French slave rebellion. |
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Back home in India, perhaps thanks to nearly 200 years of colonial rule, good looks are defined almost always by a single attribute, fairness. |
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Portuguese and Dutch, both important colonial languages of the region, left no reflexes in Tok Pisin. |
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The dominant colonial obsession with race and racial distinctions of all kinds sometimes fed into the ideas of the dominated. |
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The charming old buildings and cottages are a throwback to the colonial past. |
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The colonial authorities had arrested a woman for circumcising her daughter. |
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As if having a landscape of sugarloaf peaks, jungle and old colonial grandeur were not enough, Principe's beaches are, well, perfect. |
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There was a retreat from direct colonial rule, as nominal independence was granted to various bourgeois national governments. |
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And given the past colonial history in the region, that's not a recipe for unification. |
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English governments were keen to centralize the control of colonial matters, and charters were sometimes revoked in favour of direct rule. |
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Its mission then as now is to preserve artifacts and works of art and to assure the continuation of the Spanish colonial art tradition. |
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The abolition of capital punishment was frequently urged in colonial politics and after. |
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The background to this whole debate is the history of colonial and apartheid era land dispossession. |
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For three years I lived two lives, shuttling between corporate boardrooms over the Dallas skyline and rowdy street rallies in colonial zocalos. |
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During the colonial period, heavy breakfast meals of hoecakes and molasses were prepared to fuel the slaves for work. |
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A revolt against British colonial rule in Kenya headed largely by the Kikuyu and Meru tribes. |
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It was precisely the product of 100 years of brutal intervention by colonial and imperialist forces. |
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France has been reluctant to relinquish the remaining pieces of its colonial empire. |
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The U. S. colonial government is trying to reinstitute the death penalty in Puerto Rico. |
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This 17-track collection features the Irish songs, ballads and lyrical legacy of colonial rule in Ireland. |
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When the gems were discovered in 1930, the British colonial government tried in vain to slap strict controls on mining. |
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The scene is usually uninhabited but spinning wheels, Windsor chairs, rag rugs, and other icons of the colonial revival suggest a human presence. |
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He is a product of the mass movement of subjects within the colonial outposts of the British Empire. |
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All suites have a colonial feel, with polished teak floors and wooden slatted blinds. |
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Barret and McNamara, for example, had begun colonial life as labourers before gaining sufficient resources to become hotelkeepers. |
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Colonial militiamen often served under British commanders during the colonial wars. |
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After the conquest of the Incas, Peru's capital, Lima, became the center of Spain's colonial power structure in the Americas. |
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The British Navy had erected this lighthouse there in colonial days to warn frigates away from the coral reefs. |
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Daughter corallites possess relatively large diameters from the beginning, along with a robust colonial pattern. |
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This, in effect, brings into replay the colonial practice of extra-territoriality enjoyed by colonisers and adventurers on foreign soils. |
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The decade saw significant destabilization of colonial power all over the globe. |
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When slaves were drumming and dancing in the cabildos, Spanish colonial masters thought that they were honouring the saints. |
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When slavery was first practiced in the Americas during the early colonial period, it was purely for economic use. |
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Both colonial and republican administrators believed that the Poor House could serve to eradicate mendicity. |
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Lawyers read omnivorously, for though books were somewhat scarce in the colonial period, there was a lot of time in which to read. |
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In the coelenterate Obelia, the egg develops into a colonial hydroid consisting of a series of branching Hydra-like organisms called polyps. |
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Horses were also much more numerous and far cheaper by then than in the early colonial era, with its foot-slogging and bullock drays. |
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Plate IV shows one of two known colonial North Carolina bottle cases, both with cabriole legs. |
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Tourism and terrorism have turned out to be twin vectors of change for the old Kenya of pastoralism, smallholder farms, and colonial ranches. |
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Few colonial constructions survive, and many contemporary buildings would elsewhere be considered kitsch. |
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The notion of Chinese-Indonesians holding economic power has held sway for as long as the nation's history, particularly since the colonial era. |
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Yet the overall atmosphere of San Miguel is not remotely of a chichi American town, nor even is it as spruce as neighbouring colonial cities. |
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Like all American real-estate ventures since colonial days, it's a mixture of vision, business, and blarney. |
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The British settlers who arrived in New Zealand created an inimitable dish that has come to be known as colonial goose. |
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Right up to the 1950s, our colonial goose was still tickling the fancy of foreign visitors. |
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European settlers saw Australia as new and unexplored, perfect terrain over which to cast and re-cast the colonial net. |
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A monolith in glass and concrete stands today in the place of the old colonial structure. |
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While French domestic exports to Europe tripled, their colonial re-exports increased eightfold. |
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That is, colonial officials and military men out in Malaya or Africa often made policy without reference to London. |
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Of course the flannels have been replaced by more casual wear but this colonial legacy, cricket, like the English language, is here to stay. |
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The British colonial government had built it as a watch-station, lest anyone should try to break the government monopoly by mining his own salt. |
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In American colonial times, sugar was not as refined as nowadays and contained impurities. |
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The older, centrally located colonial houses are now occupied by offices or have been turned into rooming houses or hotels. |
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In the colonial context, translation acted as a mediating agency between conquest and conversion. |
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The Sangaree dates back to colonial times and was a favorite of tavern-goers, along with grogs, flips, punches and mulled wines. |
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An occasional catalyst for regime change during the colonial era was the mass strike. |
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The migrants got along under the colonial regimes, dealing with powers as they found them. |
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North Deer is recognized worldwide as having an outstanding concentration of colonial nesting birds, including skimmers, gulls and terns. |
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There is never any occasion for colonial arrogance or Eurocentrism or hegemonizing the discourse of the Other, for being judgmental or elitist. |
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However, conscription quotas placed on African chiefs or headmen in the Reserves undermined the legitimacy of the colonial regime on the ground. |
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Some of the old colonial flavour remains in the charming dressed stone church of St John in the Wilderness. |
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Kiribati was ill prepared for democracy by the British colonial regime, which mainly used people from Tuvalu as administrators. |
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, connoisseurs of colonial nostalgia are, unsurprisingly, having a thin time of it. |
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His account of migrant workers' lives on colonial sisal plantations is particularly interesting. |
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Explorers became the conventional heroes of colonial Australia, surrogates for the warriors Australia did not have. |
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With its Chinese shophouses, colonial bungalows and Anglo-Indian mansions, the city has no peer among the region's ports. |
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This is a fictional place outside the terms of real geographies and maps, spaces named by colonial rulers and mapped by colonial cartographers. |
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As he points out, studies of the German colonial period often emphasize the actions of state and the oppressiveness of colonial authority. |
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The taboo against miscegenation underpinned many of these negative colonial representations. |
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Not that many years ago, all computer data center landscapes featured the equivalent of ranch houses, bi-levels and colonial homes, Evanko says. |
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The houses of well-to-do Mexicans have been inward looking, towards a patio, since colonial times. |
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The use of natives as auxiliary troops had long been a practice of the older colonial powers. |
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The colonial government attempted to reorganize the land tenure system to encourage the codification of individual land holdings. |
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Here too were the holy relics of colonial Ireland passing through closure into our new present. |
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The heyday of the unscrupulous mercenary type dawned when the colonial powers pulled out of Africa leaving chaos behind. |
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After a long trend of consolidation by colonial powers, new countries are declaring their independence. |
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During its sixty years of colonial rule, Britain controlled the population by fomenting regional and ethnic divisions. |
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Many of the world's developing countries were formerly under the sovereignty of a colonial power. |
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Once upon a time, colonial Britain ruled India with an iron fist in a velvet glove. |
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But the most bustling of the galleries is a sun-washed, two story lavender Spanish colonial building with a latticed metal balcony porch. |
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They romp about their Spanish colonial island in disguises, encounter Royalist cavaliers, and fall in love. |
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Typically, he is wearing a capitula or long shorts, knee socks, and a casque colonial or pith helmet. |
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Specimens of Aeolidiopsis ransoni are found living on colonial zoantharians of the genus Palythoa. |
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The invasion was preceded by a concerted press campaign demonising the Spanish for their tyrannical and brutal colonial rule. |
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The men stood on the landing pad that serviced the colonial governor's residence. |
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The erstwhile British colonial rulers used the fort to try the freedom fighters after convicting them of treason. |
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The Kanak became integrated into the market economy very rapidly at the beginning of the colonial period. |
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For the next 25 years, Syria was governed by French colonial administrators under a mandate from the League of Nations. |
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Its Spanish colonial architecture consists of arched facades, muted plaster exteriors and trellised courtyards. |
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In the colonial context, the camera wielded by white Europeans was an intrusive weapon of domination. |
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Anthropology Professor Dianna Shandy is a specialist on the Nuer, a group entangled in the net of Sudan's arbitrary colonial borders. |
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I observed many classroom behaviors that were expected by colonial schoolmasters. |
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The scholarships, which are awarded in the former English colonial territories, USA and Germany, are tenable at the University of Oxford. |
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The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur. |
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Spanish colonial mansions, cathedrals, churches, and houses adorn the streets of both cities. |
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A band of protesters in colonial gear wended through the crowd, led by a bell ringer in a tricorn hat calling for revolution. |
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The early Australian Labor Party, highly critical of the game of ins and outs in colonial politics, wanted the people to rule more directly. |
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The colonial connection appears to be more likely a route to impoverishment than riches. |
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The non-identical twins come from Artemisa, a time-worn colonial town 60 km from Havana. |
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In an ironic reversal, the greatest colonial power becomes the helpless victim of Martian gunboat diplomacy. |
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The country's colonial past has bequeathed a wealth of Indonesian restaurants. |
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For a time, these missions became powerful institutions in colonial South America. |
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Japan has refused to pay reparations on grounds that Japan and Korea were not at war during the colonial period. |
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There are few colonial buildings still standing, and there have been no laws passed to preserve any of them. |
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After independence, many of the large colonial land holdings were divided among Kenyans into small farms known as shambas. |
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The Mumbai drainage system was built over a century ago, during the period of British colonial rule. |
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A legacy from Italian colonial days is the frittata, made by scrambling eggs with onion and peppers. |
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Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and subservient to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students? |
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The accent in New Zealand has changed rather markedly from the early colonial days until now. |
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Convicts had been transported in the past to colonial America but after the revolution America was no longer available. |
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Aristede paid tribute to national hero Toussaint L' Ouverture, the leader of African slaves who rebelled against the French colonial government. |
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Waves of immigrants from Canada and Europe provoked jeremiads bemoaning the demise of New England's Anglo-Puritan colonial heritage. |
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Why, then, insist that the minions should be happy to have suffered under colonial rule? |
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The Flemish bond brickwork with decoratively glazed headers recalls colonial architectural details. |
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Early nineteenth-century colonial economies were based primarily on agriculture, lumbering, and fishing. |
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The balance of power between colonial interests was controlled by the First Nations until the American civil war. |
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The colonial American timberyard resembled, in many ways, the modern lumberyard. |
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In other places the colonial economic impact was less all-embracing and more open to dispute. |
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The unsung Victorian adventurer hacked, bullied and charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish British colonial rule in Burma. |
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The economy of colonial America grew rapidly because of sustained population growth and profitable cultivation of staple crops. |
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Western society is more tolerant of body art now than it was during the colonial period, when it was associated with tribal cultures. |
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His mother, reputedly a sorceress, became a camp follower of the British colonial regiment. |
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Long before the hamburger and the fried chicken, colonial circulation spawned a popular staple which Cairo made its own. |
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Finally, why did the press whoop for joy and glory at the colonial elections? |
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Apparently, gambling, whoring, eating and walking around looking at Portuguese colonial ruins were the things to do then as well. |
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At one time sovereign states could control foreign populated territory as colonial dependencies. |
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Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed. |
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In each case the ruling elites were chosen from weak minority groups in order to make their power dependent on the colonial power. |
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Will roughening our cadences and splitting our infinitives establish our distance from our colonial history? |
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When the colonial militia deployed at Concord, the uniform was work clothes. |
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Both the specific development of the work market and historicity constitute principal sources of over-masculinization in colonial societies. |
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Surviving monuments in Glasgow and Edinburgh to crushed colonial rebellions show a pride in the Scots' own brutal contribution to colonial rule. |
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He also wished to prevent the restoration of France's colonial empire and the rebellions he expected would follow if it was restored. |
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I think the colonial language or the vernacular that I use in the novel comes directly from that research. |
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Perhaps the most commonly narrated Spanish usurpation of a Miskitu toponym is the colonial name referring to the Moskitia itself, Taguzgalpa. |
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Their efforts can be traced in the many historic sites around the state, from outback sheep stations to colonial lighthouses along the coast. |
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Between 1830 and mid-century, colonial licensing laws were repealed, temporary, or rarely enforced. |
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In 1947, Italy signed the Treaty of Paris, renouncing all its colonial claims. |
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They recently completed an extensive remodeling of their colonial home, including a top-of-the-line kitchen renovation. |
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With so many remnants of colonial policies surviving in India, what could have been just a curious insight thus becomes sadly relevant. |
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In French Indo-China, the Japanese kept the former colonial masters in nominal command. |
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Macarthur's flocks were based on Spanish merinos and the term pure merino became a metaphor for colonial aristocracy. |
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There is also a certain amount of evidence that Kangaba's claim to pre-eminence in the Mande world might be only as recent as the colonial era. |
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The material available in the colonial timber yard varied from region to region, but the material described is similar throughout Britain and her colonies. |
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With such deft touches, he simultaneously invokes Australian ideas of mateship, individuality, colonial innocence and a mood of melancholy sacrifice. |
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It meets all contingencies, this term for all seasons, so that any building that appears to date from the colonial period can readily be glossed with it. |
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In colonial eyes, economic concerns overrode moral considerations. |
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In fact, according to Sharp, colonial organizations had largely taken over control from the British in most of the colonies before a shot was fired. |
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In 1776 the United States was a small, colonial nation on the Atlantic coast of North America. |
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The only breathing space independence-minded Communists would have to regroup would be during the interregnum before the French colonial administration reoccupied its posts. |
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The colonial authorities encouraged Spanish and indigenous settlement in the area with incentives of formal viceregal land grants awarded by the Crown. |
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Froude invites his readers on a luxurious journey through the clubs, gardens, terraces, and mansions of colonial outposts and white settler colonies. |
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There were men dressed in colonial garb complete with knee-breeches and powdered wigs. |
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With its colonial architecture, the sea breeze coming off the Indian ocean, its spice-trade history and not least its exotic name, Zanzibar is a must see. |
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With limited resources and the inability to properly police such a vast area, the colonial authorities were playing little more than a game of bluff. |
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During the colonial period the Punjabi Muslims formed the prized martial class for the British Raj. |
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The author has produced a work on the Mixtecs of colonial Mexico which rivals the best of that on any of these other better-known and documented groups. |
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No other cities in Maryland or Virginia combined an oval with a pattern of radial streets to organize civic space in the service of a centralized colonial state. |
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Instead of four porters, two men transport the colonial official. |
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Almost entirely subterranean, colonial tuco-tucos rarely leave their burrows except for brief forays to collect the grassy vegetation on which they feed. |
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The story that emerges is one of a contested and ever-shifting landscape that advanced, receded, and adjusted in relation to patterns of colonial settlement and incorporation. |
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At his death, Franz Mayer left his collection of viceregal Mexican art to his adopted nation to afford the people of Mexico tangible evidence of their rich colonial heritage. |
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All were more or less informed by the desire to distance Shakespeare in performance from the perceived colonial baggage of received pronunciation, and stage English. |
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In 1940, the two major colonial powers in South-East Asia, France and the UK, signed pacts of non-aggression with Thailand, which declared its neutrality. |
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Now Africa reaps the bitter harvest of colonial and homegrown ethnic manipulation in endless civil wars and periodic outbreaks of rioting and killing. |
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They are not permitted to speak of that period of colonial history when they were ruled as a servile caste by a Tutsi elite. |
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As a sign of respect for the law and British custom, judges and lawyers during America's colonial period wore powdered wigs over their natural hair. |
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The colonial experience thus induced a certain schizophrenia, where a tension persisted between the new world of warfare and the traditions of European orthodoxy. |
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During the nineteenth century, Afghanistan struggled successfully against the colonial powers and served as a buffer state between Russia and British India. |
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Some of these arrangements may represent colonial impositions, others the continuation or adaptation of tributes and services owed to pre-conquest overlords. |
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Indigenous people are proud of the fact they survived the colonial era and they are determined to flourish, continue their traditions and assert their rights. |
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In colonial America, quilted coverlets were imported from Europe. |
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The Cambodians were in many ways the most tragic of all the victims of the hideous transition of Southeast Asia's states from colonial status to independence. |
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A china vase and Batavian chest on display in the colonial room belie the rationalization of the colonial enterprise as a selfless mission of civilization. |
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This is where Gandhi developed his concept of satyagraha, translated in the west as passive resistance that, in the end, influenced the whole of the colonial world. |
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In 1821 Captain Philip P. King visited Stanley Island as he sailed north, charting the coasts for the British Navy in the interests of colonial power. |
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There is no material culture explicitly connected to the period of blackbirding and the sandalwood trade, colonial structures of administration under British and French rule. |
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Lukashenko, shaped by the colonial experience, stifled their project in infancy. |
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It was particularly significant that Milanese business interests, which had been hostile to Crispi's Abyssinian venture during the 1890s, now backed colonial expansion. |
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Throughout the late colonial period, many Makonde fled the Portuguese regime, taking refuge in what was then Tanganyika across the Rovuma River border. |
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The various colonial forces that fought for the trading commodities from Kochi and its hinterlands took over the Church at various points of time. |
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This was the British colonial linguistics in action, applying their term to a range of food preparations across Africa that had no direct analog in Europe. |
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Where colonial constructions force disparate peoples together by the arbitrariness of a colonial map-maker's pen, nationhood becomes an elusive notion. |
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This king chose to disappear in the mountains permanently rather than cede to a colonial power. |
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It is still an ethos that is found in contemporary pubs, particularly in rural and remote regions, yet its cultural origins can be traced back to colonial mores. |
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But the Dutch and British colonial empires broke continuities, too. |
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Britain's colonial policy, which resulted in the annexation of NZ in 1840, was also shaped by a desire to limit the evil effects of the felonry on Maori. |
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The xenophobic attitudes that gave rise to the Chinese Exclusion Act and the head tax occurred within a colonial context that privileged British migrants. |
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But while the colonial powers cast the rebels in the light of wild savages destroying the civilising force of the settlers, it was Africans who suffered the brunt of attacks. |
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After World War I, England and France dismembered the Ottoman Empire and carved out Iraq and other states as pawns of European colonial interests. |
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Non-religious colonial art, which was mostly restricted to portraiture, echoed European styles and conventions although, due to the distance, prototypes were hard to come by. |
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Predictably, many of these images are caricatures depicting blacks as colonial subjects, savage heathens, entertainers, and promoters and providers of exotic products. |
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There was something of New Orleans about this old colonial building with its latticed balcony, though I do not recall having seen a structure in that city quite as neglected. |
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These cultural processes have been present in the creation of visual representation in the United States since its founding, beginning with colonial portraiture. |
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The Dutch colonial houses were graceful and large, set back amid cocas, kanary, and nutmeg trees, while the rest of the small town lay half hidden in the foliage of palms. |
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They thought the colonial situation held considerable potential for conflict between ordinary settlers and the natives and it was their responsibility to keep it in check. |
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