skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "colonial" in a sentence

    colonial example sentences

    colonial


    1. But could they have gone the next step ahead in the evolution of humans as a colonial species? Had they evolved beyond the need for brute coercion to make the cells work as a part in a greater organism?


    2. There were no external points of reference in my life any more I felt as though I was the dumb-struck aboriginal grasping desperately for meaning as the explorers walked up the beach, taking their first colonial steps towards empire


    3. that from now on, we are no more a colonial but a free and independent people


    4. “Independence commemorative monument, constructed in 1973 upon the spot where Uhuru (freedom/independence) from colonial rule was declared


    5. Restaurant in the Old Colonial House


    6. The colonial style was such a drastic change from the others, that it made her shutter


    7. merchants from the colonial times


    8. The war of races had become the new universal dynamic replacing the colonial spirit of the Origin Race


    9. good sense but their bad deeds too (wars, colonial


    10. Not for nothing did the Americans of the colonial era decide that „Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty

    11. He warned his colonial compatriots


    12. Secondly, the white Nationalists really felt that they had a Noblesse Oblique—or need to carry what Kipling’s referred to as the “white man’s burden” in Africa as they had witnessed first-hand (this cannot be denied) the complete disorder and atrocious dictatorships which came to power wherever the Colonial powers granted independence to its colonies in Africa


    13. I read that during colonial times in North America betrothal was seen as a trial marriage which would or could if you wish only go forward to marriage if a child is conceived


    14. What: The genocide of the slave trade and slavery, central to the American economy from colonial times until it was abolished in steps


    15. This includes during colonial times


    16. Obviously, US colonial control of the Philippines was never about democracy, and there is no reason to assume democracy would have come any sooner or later thanks to US rule


    17. Since colonial times up to the present, America has maintained local militias properly referred to today as The National Guard, a joint reserve military reserve component of the United States Army


    18. The rest of Africa is not that different for all have a colonial past and European based (originally) legal systems


    19. Colonial Oil fire crews and fire teams from adjoining plants fought the blaze initially


    20. Aside from having to send troops to the colonies every so often to restore the peace, such (colonial) uprisings never quite hit home

    21. In the Orosi Valley, a quaint colonial area famous for its gourmet quality coffee, he bought a beautiful farm, rich in volcanic soil and there, raised flowers for export to the US and Europe


    22. What: The conquest, occupation, and repression of independent island nations in the Pacific, and the repression of independence movements on Caribbean islands taken over from other colonial powers


    23. The islands of Micronesia also lived under colonial control until finally getting self rule in the 1970s and 80s


    24. It likely comes to a surprise to many Americans to hear the US has colonies, has had them for over a century, and that much of these colonial populations would like independence, or in some cases to be independent again as they were before US conquest


    25. Divided by the slightly less than 200 years of slavery starting in colonial times, that comes from 3,300 to a bit under 9,000 deaths a year to bring in under 3,000 slaves a year


    26. The Abolitionist movement had been around in the US since colonial times


    27. While still a delegate to Virginia in colonial times, Jefferson successfully pushed for a ban on importing slaves into the state


    28. Black slaves, who largely freed themselves and brought down the plantation slave-owning elites who had run the US since colonial times


    29. But Bryan was also the best hope the US had to avoid becoming a colonial empire, dominating other nations


    30. American Indian Veteran Traditions From Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War

    31. As far back as colonial times, Native individuals and communities fought alongside Europeans and Americans against common enemies


    32. We were close to the French Colonial troops, who were on the left


    33. It was an old building, refurbished in the style of its glory days during the 1920s French colonial rule


    34. She saw a quiet provincial town of colonial architecture preserved in time from centuries gone by but, eerily scarred with bullet-pocked walls


    35. The British embassy in Lagos stood out as the typical colonial building of the Africas, resplendent and austere, an indubitable legacy from the golden years of the Empire


    36. Built in early French colonial style, it looked impressively well-maintained and almost picturesque


    37. From its colonial past as capital of East Jersey to the arrival of factories, shipping links and ethnic groups that worked them, the town never fully blossomed


    38. “Number Forty-three: Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government


    39. Houses in colonial


    40. They were even known to lead uprisings – and so the practice had been banned in Jamaica during the colonial period

    41. The family ties were more a burden, as Marilee always forget her cultured grandfather and her colonial past, when she sat at the crisply set linen covered dinner table in Toorak, and felt the cheap shoes and the lack of Private School Educational Ties that all the others seemed so casual about, and brought into the conversation so easily


    42. The old structures stand, Victorian, Edwardian, Colonial, but what is inside them? Are they hollow? Has the wrecking ball already got to them?


    43. While walking the streets, visitors cannot help but be struck by the British Colonial Hilton Hotel


    44. From then on, several countries have shown some colonial interest and have occupied that island for short periods of colonization


    45. It embodies a blend of enjoyable colonial charm and a cosmopolitan touch of old buildings that relate the history of the city as well as of the island


    46. However, sightseers interested in history and attracted by historic cities of great culture, will be delighted with a pleasurable walk through the Old San Juan, for, in spite of a century of independence from Spain, still exhibits with relish its unspoiled original colonial inheritance


    47. National Historic Site of San Juan is as much a reminder of the ironies and dilemmas as of the glories and tragedies of the Spanish colonial experience


    48. Centuries before the English colonial chronicle, New Zealand had been


    49. colonial system that destroyed his father‘s dreams


    50. Across colonial America, citizens took sides on the great debate of the day










































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "colonial"

    colonial compound

    "colonial" definitions

    a resident of a colony


    of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony


    of animals who live in colonies, such as ants


    composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony