Overseas possessions of a nation-state, usually a product of the European Age of Exploration.
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Examples for "colonial empire"
Examples for "colonial empire"
1Thus the Dutch had succeeded to the colonial empire of the Portuguese.
2Now let us look at the picture the French colonial empire offers.
3Our colonial empire has shared also in the welfare and progress of the mother-country.
4Here is the picture the celebrated German colonial empire offers.
5The year was not very eventful to our colonial empire.
1The prospect of profits was gone; the hope of an overseas empire survived.
2This gave him control of the Portuguese fleet and the vast overseas empire that went with it.
3These two unlikely forces were joining together to destroy Christianity by wresting the overseas empire from the British crown.
4Since 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."
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