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Example sentences for "colonizing"

Lexicographically close words:
colonizations; colonize; colonized; colonizer; colonizers; colonnade; colonnaded; colonnades; colonnes; colonnettes
  1. Now the most notorious and inflexible fact of that race situation is that the colonial Anglo-Saxon does not intermarry with "the yellow and brown" subject people, as the Latin colonizing races do.

  2. It looks like we are about to go into the colonizing business," he had, in effect, said to Admiral Dewey, about the same time.

  3. Consider the pronounced insular mind of the globe-trotting Englishman, the deep-seated local conservatism characterizing that world-colonizing nation, at once the most provincial and cosmopolitan on earth.

  4. The shifting fate of political detachability becomes moderated in islands of the open ocean, because of their remoteness from the colonizing or conquering movements emanating from the continents.

  5. The peripheral location which retarded her early development became a source of power when she accumulated sufficient density of population for colonizing enterprises, and when maritime discovery opened a way to trans-oceanic lands.

  6. Wherever an energetic seafaring people with marked commercial or colonizing bent make a highway of the deep, they give rise to this distinction of coast and inland people on whatever shores they touch.

  7. India, or for colonizing the provinces of North America, and will fail to be particularly noticed in other divisions of our work.

  8. China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

  9. Flightless animals have no means of immigration, hence little probability of colonizing islands.

  10. Footnote 35: It is said that Lincoln suggested colonizing the contrabands in South America.

  11. It frowned on the work of the American Colonization Society, which had been organized in 1816, for the purpose of colonizing parts of Africa with American negroes, as tending to deaden the public conscience on the question.

  12. At Lincoln's instance Congress appropriated several large sums of money--then much needed in warlike operations--for colonizing experiments.

  13. Congress may appropriate money and otherwise provide for colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States.

  14. But the conditions of colonizing Utah were so different from those of any other state of the union, that the history will bear repetition.

  15. The Semites and Akkadians were also to a certain extent colonizing races.

  16. They were a great trading, sea-going, and colonizing people, and they established many centres of communication with distant lands.

  17. The great colonizing and annexing schemes of the world, when nation after nation became numerous and free enough to compete with each other, began soon after the discovery of America.

  18. An organized effort had been made by the anti-slavery societies of the North to secure Kansas by colonizing her with Abolitionists.

  19. Of all {4} colonizing nations the English have perhaps been the least scientific in their methods; and in no part of the world were their mistakes greater than in North America, where their success was eventually most complete.

  20. Notwithstanding, they renewed the old settlement; and, in the face of native enmity, began again the work of colonizing America.

  21. The exclusion of the French Protestants from Canada meant depriving Canada of the class of Frenchmen who were most capable of colonizing the country and developing its trade.

  22. Being {37} part of the continent of Europe, and ever embroiled in continental politics, when she competed with England as a colonizing power, she competed with one hand tied.

  23. That then leaves ten per cent in the case of England and twenty per cent in the case of New York City from which to select or choose the ones needed for a colonizing enterprise.

  24. We can understand this better if we picture how the Phoenician and Greek merchants in turn acted when successively colonizing Marseilles, Cadiz, and even parts of Britain.

  25. The great object of colonizing upon the continent of North America, has been to improve and extend the commerce, navigation, and manufactures of this kingdom, upon which its strength and security depend.

  26. Three principal reasons are assigned in the representation, "as conducive to the great object of colonizing upon the continent of North America, viz.

  27. Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

  28. It does not oblige, but merely authorizes Congress to aid in colonizing such as may consent.

  29. Congress may appropriate money and otherwise provide for colonizing free colored persons with their own consent at any place or places without the United States.

  30. Vast sums of money had been expended in colonizing and defending it.

  31. As compared with the New-England colonists, with whom they came most in contact, they represented a colonizing scheme based on trading-posts; while their neighbors established and fought for homes in the English sense.

  32. No nation since the fall of Roman supremacy had possessed such resources for conquering and colonizing new lands.

  33. The region of the Richelieu was therefore made as strong against incursion as this colonizing measure could make it.

  34. Equal abuses had taken place under the colonizing project.

  35. The idea of colonizing Virginia had been growing wonderfully.

  36. Besides," he continued, "the colonizing team must have the direction now.

  37. Detecting one, a colonizing team follows it to the planet.

  38. Centuries after the degradation of Canaan had been predicted, his descendants were powerful, prosperous, and colonizing the shores of the world.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.