"How can your country think to reduce us to colonial status again?"

Colonial status arrived, however, long after the rush was over.

Namibia is the last African country to shed its colonial status.

"This war is about your country wanting to reduce us in fact, although not de jure, to colonial status again."

The colonizers felt the games might serve to unite Africa, and help them break free from their colonial status.

The Home Rule council finally requested - and received - formal colonial status.

This ended the purely colonial status of the dominions.

The royal charter of 1825 bestowed official colonial status for Newfoundland.

His thesis is that the economy, society, and institutions of the Latin states are best understood in the light of their colonial status.

Elsewhere, colonial status was replaced by independence and self-government.

"We cannot continue the present colonial status."

The colonial status of World 41-why didn't they call it New Tahiti any more?

Africa's Negro republics had built soundly and well after achieving their liberation from colonial status.

Many Burmese were unhappy with the colonial status quo.

The colonial status up until then was replaced by a policy of assimilation to the rest of the metropolitan territory.

The most important reason for Jamaican dissatisfaction was the Federation's continuing colonial status.

As the Northern Territory never had colonial status or a prior flag, it was decided that an original design would be created.

From 1763 until independence, St. Vincent passed through various stages of colonial status under the British.

They were disadvantaged by colonial status, which did not permit them full citizenship or equal rights with ethnic Japanese, who looked down on them.

However, Tokelauans voted in February 2006 to retain their colonial status, rather than to take on greater autonomy.

Newfoundland reverted to colonial status in 1933, suffering from financial difficulties during the Great Depression.

The United States Declaration of Independence ended their colonial status.

He also loves Puerto Rico and hates what he sees as its colonial status.

The trial was punctuated by legal challenges from island residents, who denied the island's colonial status, and with it Britain's judicial authority over the islands.

The 2006 constitution further increases the level of self-government in the territory, and the colonial status of Gibraltar is now considered to be over.