Example sentences for: anticolonial

How can you use “anticolonial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, fundamentalists helped articulate anticolonial grievances but played little role in the overwhelmingly secular struggles for independence after World War I. Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and officials led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress.

  • It was both a revolutionary and an anticolonial war of independence.

  • The anticolonial thrust appears in the assertion of the Americans’ equal claim to rule by “consent of the governed.”


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