colonial power

If the Ottoman Empire is to be considered a colonial power, it was a different form of colonialism than that of Western Europe.

"They are collaborating with the system we're fighting, " he said by telephone from France, the former colonial power.

Last month, though, the former military headquarters of a colonial power was reincarnated as a "management campus" for UBS.

Ties between the two parties date back to the struggle to oust colonial power Japan from northeast China and Korea before World War II.

Despite sharp criticism by the African Union, the United Nations and France, the former colonial power, the captain sounds unrepentant.

As a colonial power, France inculcated its territories with Frenchness - the food, the language, the education, the urban planning.

He's even believed to have used his vast wealth, thanks to oil revenues to finance politicians in the former colonial power France.

Mr. Gbagbo's arrest came after days of heavy fighting and involved former colonial power France in a central yet politically sensitive role.

America, as the colonial power, brought English and universal public education to the Philippines a century ago.

America is not a colonial power like Turkey, France and Britain, which were able simply to order the locals around.

Once diplomatically isolated, Equatorial Guinea now enjoys ministerial visits from Spain, the former colonial power.

Haiti also had to borrow to pay crippling reparations to France, the former colonial power: the loans were not paid off until 1947.

In the context of Arab societies, it is debatable if the Ottoman Empire was a colonial power.

And though he is not fighting colonial power, he shows signs of an exemplary Gandhian determination to defy authority.

When the colonial power, Britain, withdrew from India it left a dangerous legacy of carelessly or arbitrarily drawn borders.

Italy, the former colonial power, was hopelessly out of touch at first and remains a minor player.

France, the former colonial power, showed particular cynicism.

Muttering about the old colonial power throwing its weight around may be heard.

Britain, a former colonial power, has retained two military bases in Cyprus when it granted the country its independence in 1960.

France, the ex-colonial power in Gabon, went along with this.

Italy is not only the former colonial power.

As the former colonial power, Italy last year paid reparations to Libya for its past misdeeds.

Filipino officers speak English, know and admire America, once the colonial power, and can bond with their comrades over beer and karaoke.