colonial administration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcolonialandadministration
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colonial
adjective
uk/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/us/kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
relating to a colony ...
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administration
noun
uk/ədˌmɪn.ɪˈstreɪ.ʃən/us/ədˌmɪn.əˈstreɪ.ʃən/
the arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan ...
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(Definition ofcolonialandadministrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Relations among local leaders and between them and thecolonialadministrationwere ambiguous, changeable and pragmatic.
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Again, these are the same arguments as thecolonialadministrationput forward to justify colonial rule.
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These men successfully reframed the sources of power and negotiated their roles within thecolonialadministration.
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Up to 1958, the role of thecolonialadministrationin the oil industry was regulatory.
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They largely exonerate thecolonialadministrationfrom the strongest accusations against it.
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This also explains the ambiguous attitude of thecolonialadministrationtowards the unions.
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Thecolonialadministrationdeveloped programs aimed at improving the quality of rubber production.
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Forestry was not deemed a staffing or budgetary priority by the centralcolonialadministration.
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These chiefs owed their positions of power, wealth and influence to thecolonialadministration.
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It was acolonialadministration.
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Thecolonialadministrationbears a heavy responsibility because it did not prepare for the transition in time.
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Indeed, the principal characteristic of thecolonialadministrationof the town between the wars was simple neglect.
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The distinction between the parliamentarians' vote for disaffiliation and grassroots sentiment was not lost on thecolonialadministration.
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In the early twentieth century this group became embroiled in conflict with thecolonialadministrationover their legal status.
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For present purposes, no attempt will be made to assess the different responsibilities of thecolonialadministration.
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The most common explanation advanced by thecolonialadministrationcentred on the breakdown of tribal life and family ties.
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This is, and was then, acolonialadministration.
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For two or three years it attracted large numbers of adherents, but in 1908 was suppressed by thecolonialadministrationand went into rapid decline.
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The dual arrangement of disciplines, international politics, andcolonialadministration, was in the process of becoming a unified discipline, international relations.
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During the inter-war period, most of the humbler posts in thecolonialadministration, particularly those of interpreters and guards, went to veterans.
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Sensitive to attempts to organize former soldiers, thecolonialadministrationalso intervened in the creation and management of ex-askari associations.
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The liberalism they professed was never strong enough to exceed the limitations of the halfhear ted initiatives for reform which issued from thecolonialadministration.
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Local populations felt the impact of thecolonialadministrationmainly in terms of the extraction of produce taxes and labour for porterage and military purposes.
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