How to Use anti-colonial in a Sentence

anti-colonial

adjective
  • Both the song and the movie emphasize strong anti-colonial themes.
    Simrin Singh, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • What about criticizing their anti-colonial vision on that score?
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The first anti-colonial freedom fighter in Malawi, John Chilembwe, was a Baptist minister.
    Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But Robeson has been relegated to obscurity because of his pro-Black and anti-colonial views.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Prigozhin has also pitched his services to Niger, hailing the recent military coup there as an anti-colonial triumph in an audio message posted on Telegram.
    Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Next came history class — Rose’s favorite — and a lesson on 20th-century anti-colonial struggles.
    Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Moscow has capitalized on that anti-colonial movement to stretch its influence across the continent, fostering pro-Russia support in Niger.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
  • But Danielle Wood, a leading anti-colonial space intellectual, simply sees an African people seizing what’s entitled to them under space law through a commercial partnership.
    Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Some Ukrainian left-wing intellectuals have argued that Ukraine, which is fighting an anti-colonial war against an occupying power, should see its reflection in Palestine, not Israel.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Aside from characters just straight-up saying it sometimes, Knight’s anti-colonial interpretation of the material is mostly couched in a broader aesthetic of theatrical grit.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Fans labelled the orcas’ behavior as anti-colonial protest or anti-capitalist direct action, and pledged solidarity with the ocean’s saboteurs.
    Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
  • But their politics ultimately feed a worldview that’s inclusive, anti-colonial, and conscious of the ways that sectarianism has been used to break working-class solidarity.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Basically, there is and was a nationalist project other than the anti-colonial one that began in 1925 with the foundation of the R.S.S., an organization which explicitly had a kind of Hindu majoritarianism at the center.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Russia’s support during Africa’s anti-colonial struggles also bolstered political ties with some African nations.
    Camille Behnke, NBC News, 29 July 2023
  • But the underlying intellectual paradigm of construing all human interactions as racial, and all history as colonial or anti-colonial, will have to give way to some new fashion, probably no more correct but, one hopes, less pernicious.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The anti-colonial battle against extractivism is continuously being renovated in more radical and aggressive forms of methods of resistance.
    Emiliano Granada, Variety, 29 May 2023
  • During anti-colonial revolts in the 19th century, many of the courtesans’ residences became hideout spots for Indian rebels.
    Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 2 May 2024

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