colonial government

collocation in English

meanings of colonialand government

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colonial
adjective
uk /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/ us /kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
relating to a colony ...
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government
noun
uk /ˈɡʌv.ə.mənt/ us /ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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Examples of colonial government

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Nor was the colonialgovernment consistent.
The colonialgovernment did build electricity lines.
First, good colonialgovernment was the prerequisite for responsible selfgovernment.
Both enjoyed considerable influence in the colonialgovernment.
Their main responsibility, insofar as the colonialgovernment was concerned, was collecting taxes.
As it turned out, the proposed organisational model would outlive the colonialgovernment by 25 years.
The trade also flourished because the colonialgovernment frequently lacked the necessary means to suppress it.
However, we know that the colonialgovernment associated its income with the production of silver.
Given the dilemmas, the colonialgovernment adopted a parastatal institutional design featuring several characteristics.
It therefore relied heavily on grants from the colonialgovernment to function.
European community and sometimes even the colonialgovernment, it was interpreted as emanating from nationalistic spirit.
Presented with the flood of illicit opium, the colonialgovernment appeared to have been apathetic.
Though close to the summit of colonialgovernment, he cultivated many contacts among the nationalists.
The colonialgovernment also faced its own economic distress as a result of the depression.
This indisputably logical demand was only half-heartedly conceded by the colonialgovernment.
Neither the imperial nor the colonialgovernment, however, was prepared to define the precise nature of the emergency.
The 1910s represented a particularly intense period in the reorganization of the city carried out by the colonialgovernment.
They are clearly no threat to the colonialgovernment, but are, instead, shown as either its servants or its carriers.
And that reputation proved useful later in securing positions in the city's merchant houses and in the colonialgovernment.
In recent overviews, it has come to represent the success of expansionist settler capitalist designs in securing colonialgovernment support.
He proposes that the rise of nationalist agitation offered opportunities for putting increased pressure on the colonialgovernment.
They started to form alliances against the colonialgovernment, or to annoy the governments of neighbouring territories.
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