"possession" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Portuguese brought them to their African and Asiatic possessions like India.
- The French have removed large numbers of troops from their African possessions, leaving the way open for revolt.
- France made extensive use of tribal allies (goumiers) as auxiliaries in its North African possessions.
- This accounts for some of the hopefulness with which France was to look to her African possessions for military manpower in the twentieth century.
- This system was seen as the backbone for the African possessions of the British Empire, and was not completed.
- An estimated 800,000 Portuguese returned to Portugal as the country's African possessions gained independence in 1975.
- Maio's concentration on events to the north, however, proved the downfall of the African possessions of the crown.
- Italy was forced to give up its African possessions, including Eritrea.
- London granted independence to its African possessions in a spirit of resignation, largely withdrawing except for business ties.
- An estimated 1.6 million pieds noirs returned to France as the country's North African possessions gained independence.
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