11.   The colonial government, which made a huge investment in the capital after the hurricane, has generally taken an optimistic tone and has not intervened in business matters.

12.   The colonial governments bred resistance as they laid down Western values in politics, society and schools.

13.   The French, seeing the Alawite clans as potential allies in the old divide-and-rule method of colonial government, introduced schools to their villages.

14.   The measures were immediately denounced both by Hong Kong politicians and the British colonial government.

15.   The outgoing British colonial government is just as determined to keep her from her goal as is the incoming Chinese government.

16.   Western Christian powers, through their colonial governments, subjugated a way of life that had been the norm for nine centuries.

17.   Yet the status distinctions remained, and the Belgian colonial government kept the Tutsi elite in charge.

18.   Past legislatures were heavy with government appointees, and served mostly to rubber-stamp colonial government policy.

19.   A politician from the pro-Beijing camp, who previously served the colonial government, recently called him unprincipled.

20.   All the officials involved are career civil servants who served in the outgoing colonial government and will remain in the new one.