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colonial power

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colonial
adjective
uk /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/ us /kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
relating to a colony ...
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power
noun
uk /paʊər/ us /ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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Examples of colonial power


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Others are multinationals, often based in the former colonialpower.
This also points out some of the real limits on colonialpower.
Such a position ignores the fact that not all aspects of colonialpower knowledge were accepted.
Invention, he noted, implied a conscious construction of tradition, focused on colonialpower and agency.
All of these avenues of research will reveal the importance of guarding against simple equations between knowledge and colonialpower.
The number of border disputes involving a colonialpower is approximately the same in the two subregions.
A fair colonialpower should be able to manage the influences and groups of interests that characterise indigenous societies.
The strength of these new elder men was the result of colonialpower and not of cultural legitimacy.
Long after the colonialpower has withdrawn the imprint of its institutions can still be clearly seen and felt.
In so doing, these papers throw new light on the nature of colonialpower and the agency of the colonized.
These questions pertain to the political detritus of colonisation, to the customs and institutions left when the colonialpower withdrew.
They threw off the colonialpower.
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They are coming on you like a colonialpower.
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Another artificial line was drawn by a colonialpower.
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Indeed, they operated in this country like a colonialpower.
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Colonialpower was limited by chiefs' obligation to ensure community well-being to maintain the legitimacy on which colonial authorities depended.
The authors point to how these interlocutors ' exploited accommodation with the colonialpower as an avenue of private accumulation ' (p. 96).
While the trade exposes the limits of colonialpower, rubber also played a largely overlooked role in the social and economic transformations of the period.
None of these institutions were easily fabricated or manipulated, and colonial dependence on them often limited colonialpower as much as facilitating it.
The initial postwar behavior of most veterans revealed the extent to which they believed they had become a part of the colonialpower structure.
What better way is there to dispose of the former colonialpower and take back what one views as one's own?
He also justifies his stance on economic grounds by alluding to extortionate policies by the colonialpower, which also affected his large clientele.
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