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- noun Plural form of
colonizer .
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Examples
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80 However, in colonizers 'eyes, Magude's economic value lay principally in its soils and river networks, and these Portuguese technocrats charted with special care.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Like the U.S., NATO cannot avoid the ancient paradoxical "imperial dilemma", where occupiers holding even the noblest intentions are faced with the same dilemma as their imperial predecessors and colonizers, which is to impose order from without, using all military means necessary, but in the name of justice, peace, and freedom.
Daniel Wagner: Libya's Constitutional Moment Daniel Wagner 2011
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The success of the Arab narrative is why they are called colonizers, so I agree with you there.
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I can hear my people in North Dakota saying something like this: "Hey, most of those so-called colonizers were relatively poor farmers from Scandinavia and other parts of northern Europe who came to the United States to scratch out a living and who built a prosperous life through a lot of hard work."
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Michael, Since the 'colonizers' would be employees of the local government, new courts and governmental ...
tdaxp 2009
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Michael, Since the 'colonizers' would be employees of the local government, new courts and governmental ... chris, Thanks for the comment.
tdaxp 2009
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Michael, Since the 'colonizers' would be employees of the local government, new courts and governmental ... chris, Thanks for the comment.
tdaxp 2009
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Michael, Since the 'colonizers' would be employees of the local government, new courts and governmental ... chris, Thanks for the comment.
tdaxp 2009
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"colonizers" would have had to fight not only Spain, but the Cubans themselves, on whose side they were soon fighting in the Ten Years 'War; so Cuba may be eliminated.
Real Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding Davis 1890
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"There are a thousand 'colonizers' waiting to vote for the Tammany ticket.
Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys
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