1.   The only real difference would be that the colonial governors sent to deal with the locals back then usually wore pith helmets.

2.   Yet this did not prevent a considerable proportion of headships of French missions going to outsiders -- senators, prefects, colonial governors, soldiers and even journalists.

3.   It was not easy, for example, as Draper shows in what are nearly comic passages, to be a British colonial governor dealing with stingy colonial assemblies.

4.   Its chief operating officer serves much like a colonial governor, albeit with the oversight of a board of state and city appointees, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp.

5.   Such dissent is uncharacteristic for Hong Kong, where the British colonial governor historically ruled in close cooperation with the business elite.

6.   That was replaced by the new council and the colonial governor was replaced by the chief executive, a position that must ultimately answer to rulers in Beijing.

7.   The justices of this court will be named by Tung, who will succeed the last colonial governor, Chris Patten.

8.   The New-York Historical Society owns a painting that supposedly shows Viscount Cornbury, a colonial governor of New York and New Jersey, in a white dress.

9.   Wednesday, continuing the custom of British colonial governors, he presented his first state-of-the-territory address to Hong Kong.

10.   When the colonial governor demanded that they take an oath of allegiance, almost all Acadians refused.