Colonised in a sentence

As was confirmed in November, the aspects of international law that provide pathways to secession to colonised or oppressed nations do not apply to Scotland.

He was born in Kazakhstan, a country also colonised by Russia and formerly of the Soviet Union.

If the theory is correct, it meant that at least a section of workers in imperial countries had a vested interest in empire loyalism—and would not likely make common cause with their colonised siblings.

No sooner does Luke find his cousin at a West African Education Centre, he’s in for a roasting from his cousin’s wife for working for a Colonial Butcher and, for good measure she declares Luke is self-colonised and collaborating with the oppressors.

The Commonwealth Games happen every four years and are contested by athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which is an international association of 56 member states, most of which were formerly colonised by the British Empire.

Their rooting and foraging behaviour can create areas of disturbed soil that can be colonised by certain plants and provide habitat for insects and small mammals.

The thing to remember about Brazil is that they were colonised by Portuguese, not Spaniards.

When the whiteman colonised our continent, he took our lands, our minerals and everything.

A Tory leader is required who can claim back some of Farage's policies — re-occupy some of the territory he has colonised — without appearing extreme.

Common or Indian mynas are an invasive pest species which have colonised the east coast of Australia, from Western Victoria all the way to Cairns, after being introduced in the 1860s to control garden and crop pests.

Given the evidence, interviews and confessions, would it be wrong to say that after Shastri’s death, India was colonised again?

In effect, the neoliberal discourse itself is a virus that has multiplied over the years and colonised most policy circles.

One of only two African countries never colonised, our independence is a significant part of our history.

The very idea of basing our policies in those views is a sign of a colonised mentality.

This national aspiration pushed our fore runners to wage a liberation war against the settler regime which had colonised us.

At the same time, to say that Tobago remains colonised by Trinidad is a stretch and especially disingenuous when we look at what colonialism is.

Immerwahr also graphically relates the US’s brutal handling of the Philippines, which it terrorised and briefly colonised.

India and Sudan are two separate but similar examples of such countries colonised by the British and administered using the same model.

Jagadish Chandra Bose, who created a philosophy of science in colonised India, at a free talk.

Military experience, spreading education, the ideals of the Russian Revolution, even the sudden leap in earnings caused by wartime demand for African and Asian raw materials, all encouraged colonised peoples to demand independence.