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Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
I'll tell you what colonial experience is.
Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
India has always stood with Africa on the freedom struggle against colonial powers.
To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.
The struggles to overturn colonial rule were long and often bitter. But, over time, most were inevitably successful.
As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir.
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me.
Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.
The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home.
I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
In 'Colonial Marines' you come into the game as a marine, and how you play depends on your equipment and by the choices you're making in real time.
The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.
Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Gauguin is creepy - let's just face it. He goes off into the Pacific, and he's looking at these young girls, and the colonial gaze: It's just really problematic.
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.
Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.
The gulf between imperial ideals and empire on the ground has customarily proved disillusioning not only for colonial peoples but also for some in the occupying power.
In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.
Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.
All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
We have had dealings with terrorists for a long time. From 1948 until 1990, we had domestic terrorism because the pro-communist groups wanted to overthrow the colonial government.
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south.
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.
Famines were frequent in colonial India and some estimates indicate that 30 to 40 million died out of starvation in Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Bengal during the later half of the 19th century.
I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small, well-run colonial institution and not the global colossus it is today.
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.