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Meanings of colonial empire in anglès
Overseas possessions of a nation-state, usually a product of the European Age of Exploration.
Synonyms
Examples for "overseas empire"
Examples for "overseas empire"
1
The prospect of profits was gone; the hope of an overseas empire survived.
2
This gave him control of the Portuguese fleet and the vast overseas empire that went with it.
3
These two unlikely forces were joining together to destroy Christianity by wresting the overseas empire from the British crown.
4
Since then, Colao has shown his skill as a clean-up man by trimming the overseas empire that his predecessors had built up via acquisitions.
5
"Why, the fall of Batavia-forthat is the linch-pinof their overseas empire."
Usage of colonial empire in anglès
1
Thus the Dutch had succeeded to the colonial empire of the Portuguese.
2
Now let us look at the picture the French colonial empire offers.
3
Our colonial empire has shared also in the welfare and progress of the mother-country.
4
Here is the picture the celebrated German colonial empire offers.
5
The year was not very eventful to our colonial empire.
6
She did practically nothing to develop this magnificent colonial empire.
7
With the destruction of her Armada Spain's colossal dream of colonial empire passed away.
8
The old dream of colonial empire has come back again.
9
France had long been ambitious of extending the domain of her colonial empire in America.
10
Not to mention her colonial empire Germany loses nearly one-third of her territory in Europe.
11
He had annexed Portugal, with its immense colonial empire.
12
Germany must also be deprived of any colonial empire and shut out from eastward expansion.
13
James's reign is also the beginning of colonial empire.
14
Germany must expand over the seas, in colonial empire, and by tariffs of her own making.
15
France had been dreaming of a colonial empire stretching from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico.
16
The colonial empire comprises over fifty distinct governments.
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