colonial authority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcolonialandauthority
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colonial
adjective
uk/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/us/kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
relating to a colony ...
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authority
noun
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition ofcolonialandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The implementation ofcolonialauthoritywas far from easy and dependent on many more factors than brute force, legislation or subjects alone.
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In so doing, the primary aim is to stress the essentially compromised nature of this early extension ofcolonialauthority.
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The nature of state andcolonialauthorityin the 1820s-40s is at present undergoing careful re-evaluation.
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Implementation of anti-slavery policies depended upon the degree ofcolonialauthority, which varied from district to district.
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Instead of having been passive objects in a history driven by colonial forces, they continued to pursue their own agendas, sometimes subvertingcolonialauthority.
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Their involvement elevated a rather routine exercise incolonialauthorityinto an examination of colonial policy.
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This is howcolonialauthoritywas established and the civilizing mission introduced!
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Missionaries' reactions to the extension ofcolonialauthorityare also revealed to be differentiated in certain respects.
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This was no doubt connected with the police role in upholdingcolonialauthorityat a time of rising nationalist feeling.
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Such views are extremely reductionistic; it is now possible, indeed necessary, to point to larger forces at work-above all, a debate on the nature ofcolonialauthority.
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Colonialauthorityrequired active recognition of, engagement in and negotiation with what it took to be indigenous realities.
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Farmers in outlying areas often paid several years at once, presumably due in part to the long journey from their farms to the seats ofcolonialauthority.
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Herschel primarily saw hand, thumb, and later finger printing as an administrative tool for reassertingcolonialauthorityby curbing impersonation and fraud.
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The author notes that, as in the precolonial period, women employed such resistance strategies as strikes, boycotts, sit-ins or sleep-ins and nudity to challengecolonialauthorityand its agents.
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Also, being stripped of the power to make war by no means stripped them of all political influence or the desire (and ability) to contestcolonialauthority.
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Although this trip was not to be, her declaration of intent no doubt made for good press at this historical moment ofcolonialauthorityin crisis.
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The cases thus represent a specifically local struggle between the values of an older moral economy and an emerging capitalist one rather than an assertion ofcolonialauthority.!
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Burns quickly elaborated a local development and welfare project specifying the roles that colonial reformers assigned to working women, in relation to men, children, andcolonialauthority.
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Those men are being discouraged to the point where, whethercolonialauthoritycan be carried on, becomes extremely doubtful.
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