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- noun Plural form of
colonial .
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Examples
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Juxtaposed with the colonials are the Vietnamese, working 12 hours a day carrying buckets of coal to ships and pulling rickshaws, many of them living on the streets because of heavy French taxes, which made owning a home prohibitive.
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Bismarck himself at first checked the "colonials," until he felt sure of the
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) John Holland Rose 1898
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It is quite sad that the sensible doctrine of Common Law popularized in the phrase "A man's home is his castle", which permits the defense of home and family without resort to the resources of the state and without fear of retribution from the state seemingly survives only among us benighted 'colonials' on the other side of the pond.
Telegraph Major News 2010
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It is quite sad that the sensible doctrine of Common Law popularized in the phrase "A man's home is his castle", which permits the defense of home and family without resort to the resources of the state and without fear of retribution from the state seemingly survives only among us benighted 'colonials' on the other side of the pond.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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If conservatives are such "colonials," why does Canada still exist as a separate country?
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But unlike the Weathermen, PL believed that working-class Americans, not Third-World "colonials", would form the revolutionary vanguard, and PL rejected any form of "nationalism", including black nationalism, as reactionary.
Leslie Carbone 2008
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43 Jabavu, ever partial to Afrikanerdom, applauded the entry of young 'colonials' in the industry.
file:///D:/Data/HTML/BOOKS/src/sfsa04.txt Ray Esther 1969
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For without economic power, the former colonials were powerless, influenceless, and useless.
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Post-colonial Africa needed all the technocrats and capital it could get, and the most competent ones were the former colonials.
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Before you address them, you can look out the window of the White House and see the colonials' signs, and banners and hear their chants.
Egypt uprising should inspire D.C. voting rights activists, Nader says Mike DeBonis 2011
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