How To Use Crown Colony In A Sentence
- An island of Malaysia off the northeast coast of Borneo . At one time a British crown colony(after1848), it became part of Malaysia in1963.
- Nevertheless, by the summer of 1939 Japan controlled most of northeastern China and all major coastal seaports, except for the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong.
- In 1808 Sierra Leone became a British crown colony, ruled under a colonial governor.
- Rapid economic development followed, the country becoming the crown colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1911 and a self-governing colony in 1923.
- But worse than that, the very laws that existed under the Crown Colony system are the ones that still apply today, save for a few subtractions and some additions.
- This alliance barely outlasted the bonfires lit to celebrate the proclamation of the Crown Colony of Victoria on 1 July 1851, for later that month the colony was convulsed by the discovery of gold.
- A narrow stretch of water was all that separated the Japanese invaders and the 14,000 British, Indian, and Canadian garrison troops left to defend the Crown Colony.
- Nevertheless, by the summer of 1939 Japan controlled most of northeastern China and all major coastal seaports, except for the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong.
- Using these notional numbers to allocate the burden of customs duties would have Maori indirectly providing over half of the Crown colony's customs revenue provided it can be shown they were consumers of the main dutiable items.
- Back in 2004, the building served as home to 12, 748 companies using the same address in the Caymans, a British crown colony 150 miles south of Cuba.
