pro-British
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Reporting to Samuel Huntington, the president of the Continental Congress, Greene warned that the region risked being laid waste by rival bands of patriots and pro-British loyalists “who pursue each other with as much relentless fury as beasts of prey.”
Nominally pro-British, these marauders were not picky about their prey.
And Napoleon biographer Patrice Gueniffey told Le Point magazine that Scott made a “very anti-French and very pro-British” rewrite of history.
From Salon
The devolved regional government was a centrepiece of Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday peace agreement, which largely ended three decades of violence between Irish nationalist militants seeking a united Ireland, pro-British "loyalist" paramilitaries and the British military.
From Reuters
He adds that there was a "pro-British sentiment built in", particularly amid the backdrop of the White Australia policy that had formalised the restriction of non-white immigration since 1901, while enabling Brits to relocate.
From BBC
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