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  • adjective Of or pertaining to colonialism.

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Examples

  • "colonialistic" approach, to which Mr Niehaus replied that it was not necessary to have a territory in which to practice culture and language.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Explaining that America's involvement with the Muslim World metamorphosed dramatically after WWII when the USA adopted, "A colonialistic type approach evolving into the Cold War dynamic and how the Muslim World in large part was the chessboard on which the Cold War was played."

    Michael Carmichael: Imam Rauf In Chapel Hill: What's Right With America Michael Carmichael 2011

  • I use to be an avid supported of Human Rights Watch, but I find some of their reports to be a little neo-colonialistic/condemnatory ....

    BUT WHY? 2008

  • Yogurt is a known milk product, and yet the Iranian press, far from banning it as western colonialistic propaganda, actually quotes American sources as to its usefulness, and worse, its taste.

    Why There Won't Be War With Iran Steve Carper 2007

  • Yogurt is a known milk product, and yet the Iranian press, far from banning it as western colonialistic propaganda, actually quotes American sources as to its usefulness, and worse, its taste.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Steve Carper 2007

  • It's a tough enough religious market for Christian missionaries, without this constant expression of borderline colonialistic chauvinism.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • The fact that the Scandinavian flags are copies of the dannebrog is the result of Danish imperialistic and colonialistic policy.

    languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC. 2005

  • Elements opposing a free Africa were trying to disrupt security in new democracies on the continent, he said, adding organised crime might have "deep colonialistic roots".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The hindering of progress towards economic independence in developing countries through neo-colonialistic machination, carefully manipulated

    INTENSIFY THE REVOLUTION 1969

  • The Bilderberg Group and other evil neo-colonialistic organizations want the NWO to be kept alive, so they do anything in their power to weaken those 5 nations as much as they possibly can.

    legitgov 2009

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