Sentences with phrase «old colonial days»

Bayonne was later claims by the Netherlands, back in the old colonial days when countries ran around claiming any piece of land they could for themselves.

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News of her firing comes on the same day that Zimbabwe's 93 year - old Robert Mugabe, the last of the generation of African leaders to take over from colonial rule, has had his hold on power broken by army units loyal to his former bodyguard Emmerson Mnangagwa.

I paid $ 10 for day - old sandwich in colonial Williamsburg, which I suspect would have horrified the Founding Fathers as much as the $ 3 water and $ 9 «Freedom Burger.»

There are for Butler, quite properly, no colonial «good old days» when conventional religion of the Protestant or Christian or Judeo - Christian sort snatched America from the jaws of the Enlightenment and gave the nation a Christian birthing.

When oil came, we abandoned the old systems of tax collection that provided most of our infrastructure since colonial days.

From the old days of the Mughal Empire to British colonial rule, visitors walk through the various heritage sites... Lahore Authority.»

An armed carjacker struck at a major intersection near downtown Orlando in the middle of the day, taking a woman's car but leaving her uninjured.The victim, a 27 - year - old Orlando woman, told police she was southbound on North Orange Blossom Trail, waiting at the Colonial Drive red light, when the gunmen ordered her out of the car at 1 p.m. Sunday.The car - a lime - green, 1979, two - door Buick Regal - was last seen heading south on South Orange Blossom Trail.

The hotel conserves all the beauty of an old colonial mansion and provides the welcoming service that will make you feel special during every day of your stay with us.

Wrap up your Caribbean days with an evening stroll through a 500 - year - old Spanish colonial city on the Atlantic.

This newly created modern home is stylishly decorated with a blend of simple modern architecture, beautiful old antique furniture from the colonial days and touches of Africa.

Graceful and stately as a Grande Dame, Settha Palace is an old world hotel that emanates the French colonial days.

The Total Romance Package — our all - inclusive package — includes accommodation for specified number of nights in room category chosen; all - inclusive meal plan (breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, most alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages); all tax and service; airport transfers both ways; welcome cocktail, drinks package in room fridge, and tropical fruit display on arrival; bottle of French champagne; tour of Volcano, Sulphur Springs, and Diamond Mineral Baths; escorted walk of the Old French Colonial Plantation; guided boat snorkel trip; a resort scuba diving course for beginners or 2 dives per person for certified divers; a one - hour Swedish Massage per person; half - day Jungle Biking in Anse Mamin Valley; half - day sailing on skippered resort yacht Searenity; and 2 Anse Chastanet T - shirts.

The Scuba Dive Group Packages include: 7 nights superior accommodation, 12 boat dives and xtra scheduled shore diving, substitution day dive for night dive to max of two, breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, all tax and service, airport transfer both ways, a welcome cocktail, manager's rum punch party, mini-sailing, windsurfing, snorkeling, use of tennis court, tennis equipment, guided tour of Old French Colonial Plantation, basket of local fruit, use of beach chairs and beach towels and last, no least — the private group farewell party!

The colonial artifacts positioned around the grounds, cannon included, hearken back to the days of the old world, while the sheer natural beauty of your surroundings transport you somewhere out of time.

Using old recipes from colonial days, she makes beverages like Switchel and baked goods like rhubarb pie, and has begun exploring home remedies, which she will include in an upcoming exhibition in Massachusetts.

Back in the old «Colonial Days», the powers - that - be would send the colonists to some foreign country to dislodge the indigenous peoples and develop their new «living room» land, this while they tried to tax the settlers through usury & all so that the «nobility» could throw real big parties on their estates.