1.   But on the issue of whether to welcome or spurn the migrants, Hong Kong people can seem more colonial than their former British rulers.

2.   The first settlers were Irish Catholics, fleeing religious persecution on nearby St. Kitts and prisoners banished to the island by the British ruler Oliver Cromwell.

3.   To avoid provoking China, the British rulers kept a leash on all political organizations, even the Communist Party, which has never had legal standing here.

4.   Godse was against Gandhi favoring Muslims after the colonial British rulers partitioned India into predominantly Hindu India and officially Islamic Pakistan.

5.   India has a huge rail network built largely by British colonial rulers in the latter half of the last century.

6.   Indians descended from cane cutters brought to Fiji by British rulers form a sizable minority in Fiji.

7.   It simmered in the region for decades, challenging British colonial rulers.

8.   Last month, their armies exchanged artillery, rocket and mortar fire in disputed Kashmir in the midst of golden jubilee celebrations of their independence from British rulers.

9.   Kashmir was split between the two countries by departing British rulers.

10.   The indifference to the Allied victory frustrates those who fought for the Allies, especially when people dismiss their valor as kowtowing to British colonial rulers.