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from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
colonization , etc.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
colonization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
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Examples
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If near-term colonisation is to work, then the counter-arguments, the counter-examples need to be better made.
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Also, they have never partaken in the demographic bullying which is seeing to it that the streets of Britain are the subject of a creeping - more of a brisk walk actually - colonisation aka multiculturalism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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To have it on or in the body, termed colonisation, is not uncommon or harmful in healthy people.
BBC News - Home 2011
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But as Johanna notes, there is still something off-putting about fusing the notion of colonisation with pop-psych finding yourself, and that fact that the land is so strange and sparkly.
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture 2010
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How is it then, that when Muslim people migrate in their millions to Europe, with the unshakable insistence that their culture displaces that which pre-exists them, the word 'colonisation' is not used?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The natives struggled because any kind of colonisation anywhere at any time is inadmissable to any native people.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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How is it then, that when Muslim people migrate in their millions to Europe, with the unshakable insistence that their culture displaces that which pre-exists them, the word 'colonisation' is not used?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Note: Although I have used slavery as an example, the same model could be used for Industrial Revolution era workers forced off the land during the Enclosure Acts, native North Americans during the "colonisation" of this continent, redistribution of wealth to peasants in Bolivia, etc.
Inheritance ghostwes 2006
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They also conclude that these two formulae set the style for later work in that they represent a deliberate attempt at mutual 'colonisation' – i.e. each side uses 'building blocks' drawn from the other's text.
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He says his earlier work had a historical focus on themes such as colonisation and the
Latest Massey News 2010
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