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- verb Present participle of
colonise .
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Examples
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President Lincoln had addressed a deputation of coloured men urging them to co-operate with him in colonising their race in
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Somebody else conceived the idea of colonising the coloured people, of getting territory where nobody lived, putting the coloured people there, and letting them be a nation all by themselves.
The Future of the American Negro Booker T. Washington 1885
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Some people i.e., Jacqueline Rose, Perry Nodelman argue that the act of an adult writing for a child is a 'colonising' act, that 'speaking' for the child reduces their power.
CSK: Redux Editorial Anonymous 2009
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By "colonising" mines, the NUM did not mean taking control of the organisations, but wanted to "take control of the working environment to safeguard workers 'interests", Mr Golding said at
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You can also construct and equip spaceships for a variety of missions, from colonising new worlds to all-out war, with ever larger vessels and more outlandish technologies becoming available as your empire proliferates.
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As quietly as a billion-strong superpower can, in the last couple of decades China has been economically colonising substantial tracts of the planet.
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Then we might get a peace process worthy of the name, instead of the charade we've had for decades, the pretence of seeking peace, designed to allow Israel to carry on colonising the occupied territories.
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I think that any sequel would be a huge let down if it didn't deal with this flip-side of the colonising process.
‘Avatar’ Sequel Confirmed By James Cameron… And Here’s What We’d Like To See » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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None of the above justifies or excuses your support of expelling many arabs from Israel and colonising the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Germans were among the first to arrive, colonising large areas of southern Brazil from the 1820s onwards.
Haiti's quake refugees brave sea and uncertainty for new life in Amazon 2011
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