| Senegal is a moderately decentralized republic dominated by a strong presidency. |
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| The procuracy became highly centralized, with the prosecutor-general appointing and supervising republic and district prosecutors. |
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| To finance such work, the republic is allowed to keep the revenues from its oil production around Grozny. |
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| It was aimed at destabilising the republic and preparing a coup, should the Communist Party come to power. |
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| Finally the republic was torn to pieces by rival power-hungry tribunes or dictators like Pompey, Sulla, and Julius Caesar. |
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| For it is a mistake to suppose that institutions alone will save a republic from the abuses of power to which empire inevitably leads. |
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| Bashkir is spoken primarily in the republic of Bashkortostan between the Volga River and the Ural mountains in Russia. |
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| It was all one to Danny whether they set up a republic or a skittle alley afterwards. |
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| Their country's withdrawal of troops from the rebel republic of Chechnya is the key demand of the raiders. |
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| It is my contention that the difference between a monarchy and a republic would be symbolic only. |
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| They proposed a referendum on abolishing the monarchy, and setting up a republic. |
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| Our founding fathers made this a republic and not a democracy because they feared the mob. |
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| I truly and openly declare that I believe that the nation will become a republic over time. |
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| Until almost the end of this period Rome was a republic dominated by an aristocracy that monopolised political office and military command. |
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| Until the forces of the virtual republic took to the field, sanctions against the uncommitted majority were unlikely to be undertaken. |
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| Even the mufti of the republic joined the bandwagon, urging worshippers before last Friday's prayer to cast their vote. |
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| On 21 September the monarchy was abolished in France and a republic was declared. |
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| Australia doesn't even need to be a republic to be a proud, confident and independent country. |
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| The public bar bores have finally declared a socialist breakaway republic from the tyranny of the lounge lizards. |
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| And he toured a major broadtail production farm in the the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan. |
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| The tiny South American republic has been hit hard by the devaluation of the peso. |
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| We too readily forget, though, that in a republic it is we, the people, who hold the sovereign power. |
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| In place of the monarchy they set up a republic with power vested in a senate and two annually elected consuls. |
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| Born in 1947 in the region of Tver, north-west of Moscow, Romanov's family moved to the then Soviet republic of Lithuania at the age of nine. |
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| Intervening in this particular republic is much less ambiguously a win-win situation. |
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| First, it was a republic with a stadholder as head of state, not a monarchy or empire like almost everywhere else. |
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| Most of the population occupied what would become the republic of Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union. |
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| The company's main oilfields are located in the Caspian Sea area in the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan. |
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| In the 1970s, some prickly US libertarians set up a republic on an oil platform near Tonga. |
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| Your goal is to radically transform our constitutional republic into a judicial oligarchy operated by individuals with a leftist agenda. |
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| It's not entirely clear whether he's speculating how our once and future republic might defend itself, or giving tips to the present state. |
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| A republic is a form of government where the head of state is not a monarch. |
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| The republic was unlike all the countries of old Europe, which were based on oppression, poverty and ignorance. |
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| They look towards the great republic as if it were a celestial city, a fortress and arsenal of the cause. |
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| Something ugly has happened here since we changed from being an infant republic to becoming an economic outlier of finance capital. |
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| Iraq is a republic divided into eighteen provinces, which are subdivided into districts. |
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| Those early years of our young republic were characterized by chaos and confusion. |
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| Each republic had an independent judiciary with a supreme court, lower courts, and a constitutional court. |
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| There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. |
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| Both her paternal and maternal relatives were American patriots who vigorously supported the new republic of the United States of America. |
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| You mean the ones declared illegal by the republic under penalty of long painful death? |
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| At the time of independence in 1950, the republic had few schools or university faculties. |
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| Murphy holds that the American republic is founded on a compromise between resistance to authority and civic rituals of justice. |
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| Jefferson's program would have destroyed the new republic if implemented in full. |
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| At any rate, this argument is only partially true since the republic set up by the Iroquois confederacy predates Canadian confederation. |
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| As in '99, opponents of a republic with an Australian Head of State will complain that consulting the people is a waste of time and money. |
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| A republic will confirm our traditional pluralist commitment to democracy and moreover foster our sense of self-identity. |
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| Dark times are ahead because there is no republic anymore only a plutocracy. |
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| I explained my position on the republic in terms which I won't repeat here but which are set out on my website. |
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| Actually this foretokened that the formal independence of the republic would also be nullified. |
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| America's democratic republic is founded on the principle that all men are created equal. |
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| And for commercial purposes the sister republic was treated anything but fraternally. |
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| The garment was being made for an ambassador due to be cross-posted from a republic to a monarchy. |
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| The primary symbol of the republic is the flag, which depicts a frigate bird over an ocean sunrise. |
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| When and if our country becomes a republic it will be in the form and with the structures preferred by the people. |
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| The basic principle for a democratic republic is the independence of the three branches of government executive, legislature and judiciary. |
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| Wedged by Northern Ireland into the extreme northwest of the island, its back to the sea, Donegal is linked to the republic by a slender isthmus. |
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| But the high costs associated with holidaying in the republic are also thought to be a significant reason for the downfall. |
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| The insurgents are waging an armed struggle to replace the monarchy with a communist people's republic. |
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| In 1931 Spain's king abdicated, and a new republic was ushered in promising social change and progress. |
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| Federalists seized on the concept of an extensive republic in essays, public letters, and private correspondence. |
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| But as the birth of the American republic so brilliantly demonstrates, the taxing power of the government is far from being unlimited. |
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| Fifty years of civil war, a republic led by Oliver Cromwell, and the restoration of the monarchy. |
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| It left slavery untouched until the Civil War but it put in place a representative republic with basic rights for its citizens. |
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| My part of the republican movement was to argue that becoming a republic was to signal to the world that we are our own men and women. |
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| Russia has been trying to pull the small, rebellious mountain republic back into its fold since the crumbling of the Soviet Union. |
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| The rebels have not yet dropped their demand of a communist republic for Nepal, the rebel leader said. |
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| It is difficult to know whether inevitabilism is genuine support for the republic or rather amounts to a form of monarchism. |
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| The Queen has not publicly stated a preference on the republic issue, saying she would abide by whatever decision Australians made. |
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| The republic was narrowing itself into the ideological rigidities of the Cold War. |
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| Sumter rang down the curtain on the aristocratic republic the founders had created. |
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| The rapid rise of the republic challenges every new generation of historians to formulate new explanations. |
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| The Spanish producers of the film had planned to shoot in the republic but their search for a suitable location came up dry. |
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| The head of the republic found it wise to move around his capital in the safety of an armoured car. |
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| Soon it was in conflict with an autonomous republic in its territory, which it wanted to retain. |
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| The Venetian republic forbade its citizen nobles from assuming titles such as prince, duke, marquis, or count. |
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| Just beyond the southern boundary of the reserve lies Russia's republic of Tuva, a sere land of yaks and camels tended by seminomadic herders. |
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| In 1945, Kurds set up a Kurdish republic at Mahabad in the Soviet, occupied zone in Iran. |
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| They treated us like a tin-pot banana republic instead of a sovereign country. |
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| I wonder if it would be possible to synthesise a list of criteria that define a banana republic and test our current status? |
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| The term is often used to refer to all Roman territories during both the republic and the empire. |
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| With the 9th of Thermidor, the machinery of the Jacobin republic was dismantled. |
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| The republic did expropriate ecclesiastical properties, but Mazzini was sincere in his assurances that property would be respected and unlawful acts punished. |
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| They idealized the struggle of a citizen army against the overmighty British and marvelled at the establishment of a republic with a written constitution. |
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| Would the cleansing operation revive the image of the republic in the midst of fighting? |
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| It became known as The Great Compromise because it secured ratification of the Constitution by the small states and saved the republic from certain doom. |
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| In some cases, a republic may be a dictatorial or totalitarian state. |
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| The country became an independent kingdom in 1932 and was proclaimed a republic in 1958, since when it has been run by a series of military strongmen. |
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| The island republic of Madagascar, lying some 400 kilometers off the coast of east Africa, is touted as the only African country with a single language. |
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| The republic was built on the petty bourgeoisie and the middle classes. |
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| The figure of Justice as a symbol of the chief virtue of the Venetian republic, or as a representation of the republic itself, also goes back at least to the trecento. |
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| The mother becomes a drifter, finally offering her life in a revolutionary cataclysm that takes place in a banana republic wholly given over to violence and nihilism. |
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| If those consumers get their hands on some money, they'll move upmarket to Crate and Barrel and banana republic. |
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| The Saudis' nightmare is a Shia republic in Manama that tilts towards Tehran and encourages Shia unrest in the Eastern province. |
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| In response, South Ossetia's leadership upped the ante by announcing preparations to defend their unrecognized republic against a supposed Georgian invasion. |
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| Tropico is the excellent nation-builder game that simulates a Caribbean banana republic during the Cold War. |
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| Yet sceptics argued that a large modern republic was not possible in Europe, with its overpowerful feudal nobilities and its hordes of miserable poor. |
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| Tighter security would target most foreigners but also people from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya and others of North Caucasian appearance. |
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| It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within. |
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| From the founding of the republic until 1967, many states defined marriage as a relationship between two people of the same race. |
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| But the worshippers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious. |
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| Satire finally came to the fore in American political life, unleashing a tsunami of politically-charged ridicule and invective that has changed the republic forever. |
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| The republic has supplies of coal and lignite and uranium ore. |
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| But the so-called parliament of the self-declared Luhansk republic decided to go one better. |
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| The defense minister of this short-lived republic was mullah Mustafa Barzani, the Iraqi-born father of Masoud Barzani. |
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| First, and most simply, the founding fathers were unstinting in their belief that the nascent republic had to pay its debts. |
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| Ancient Athens emerged from tyranny for about 100 years and then self-destructed and the Roman republic was never more than an oligarchy until it too became an empire. |
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| And the text of the United States Constitution makes it perfectly clear that the American republic does not regard intrauterine life as the equivalent of live-born persons. |
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| The arid land of this autonomous republic supports a nomadic lifestyle. |
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| It was a war the republic entered, and stayed in, because of hubris. |
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| His mistake was to anger his nephew, who proclaimed a republic in a bloodless coup in 1973 while he was on an island off Naples, taking mud baths for his lumbago. |
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| And if, heaven forfend, that other guy worms his way into office again, we're really going to have to work together to defend the beloved republic. |
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| Russia banned foreign reporters from working independently in the republic and it was simply too dangerous for international organizations to station staff there permanently. |
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| With a tame sister republic to the north, the Belgian departments were lightly garrisoned by troops not expecting to be used to keep domestic order. |
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| Dagestan, the biggest and most populated republic of the North Caucasus, is a place where insurgents often strike. |
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| Shortly thereafter, the government proposed conversion from a monarchy to a republic with an elected president replacing the British monarch as chief of state. |
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| The Spanish producers of the film, mostly set on an oil rig in the North Sea, had planned to shoot in the republic but their search for a suitable location came up dry. |
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| Thus, Croatians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes each had a separate republic named after them, a republic in which their group was the majority. |
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| It needs to understand that nearly the entire income of the federal government in the early decades of the republic derived from tariffs on maritime trade. |
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| Tajikistan is the third former Soviet republic bordering Afghanistan. |
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| If I'd run up that kind of debt I would have called my father from a banana republic far to the south to say good-bye and hung up before the call could be traced. |
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| For the first time in the history of the Italian republic and for the first time in a democratic country of post-war Europe, some neo-fascists acquired ministerial portfolios. |
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| Her body, riddled with bullets, was found on the side of the road in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia. |
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| In a series of strikes this week, here and in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia, several people were killed. |
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| The Hellenic republic has outspent itself to safeguard the Games. |
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| The fact that the republic side now is in the main made up of Irishmen is down to our efforts stimulating interest in the game and getting kids to play it in Ireland. |
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| He built hospitals and buildings for several universities, and the heraldic gates of San Marino, the strange little independent republic not far from Urbino. |
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| A military junta seized power and established Iraq as a republic. |
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| This region, which incorporated the boundaries of the later independent republic, was a semi-autonomous constituent republic within the Yugoslav federation. |
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| If you get to Nukus in the semi-autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan, you will almost certainly be the only person you know who has. |
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| Croatia is only the second former Yugoslav republic to seek membership. |
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| The name of the landlocked central Asian republic doesn't roll off the tongue. |
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| Four shipping companies, including the Arctic Sea Shipping Company, operate in the republic. |
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| This area is the gastronomic soul of the region, stretching as far west as the republic of San Marino. |
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| In 1854, Lincoln hoped that the republic could be repurified, or renewed, without a literal shedding of blood. |
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| Rai called on all the political factions to protect the Lebanese republic and the constitutional institutions. |
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| The last such exercise was held between Russian and Indian army units in August 2012 in the Siberian republic of Buryatia. |
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| It is difficult to know whether inevitabilism is genuine support of the republic or rather amounts to a form of monarchism. |
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| Cicero delivered his greatest speeches in defense of the republic against the Catilinarian Conspiracy. |
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| He is from Somaliland, a breakaway republic that isn't recognised by any other country. |
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| Tenders are invited for cEras iompair eireann is the main provider of surface land public transport services within the republic of ireland. |
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| Yefimov, a bookkeeper in Cheboksary, the capital of the republic of Chuvashia. |
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| The man is a card-carrying member of Nepotists United, and he absolutely typifies everything that is wrong in this banana republic of ours. |
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| In 1993 he and his men had helped the inexperienced Abkhaz to capture Abkhazia's capital Sukhum and 'cleanse' the republic of Georgians. |
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| Scotland needs to be founded as a republic with its own constitution and do its very best to keep the globalist bankers out of the country. |
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| The republic lived on, albeit in a new phase, the Principate, in place of the earlier Consulate. |
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| Officially known as the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the constitutional republic comprises 36 states. |
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| I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. |
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| Jeffersonians decried lawyers and their common law tradition as threats to the new republic. |
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| However the Army remain the dominant institution in the new republic and the most prominent general was Oliver Cromwell. |
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| It was left to the initiative of de Valera's successors in government to achieve the country's formal transformation into a republic. |
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| The exact causes and motivations for Rome's military conflicts and expansions during the republic are subject to wide debate. |
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| The most important constitutional change during the transition from kingdom to republic involved a new form of chief magistrate. |
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| As the republic expanded, authors began to produce poetry, comedy, history, and tragedy. |
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| Even Roman constitutionalists, such as the senator Cicero, lost a willingness to remain faithful to it towards the end of the republic. |
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| A national referendum confirmed the people's preference for a monarchy over a republic. |
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| Under the republic that followed, some questioned whether Magna Carta, an agreement with a monarch, was still relevant. |
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| The standard was deliberately based on varieties from the west of the republic that were most different from standard Bulgarian. |
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| Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism and called for a democratic African republic. |
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| In 1946, by popular referendum, Italy became a republic, with Sardinia being administered since 1948 by a special statute of autonomy. |
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| In 1768, with the Treaty of Versailles, the Genoese republic ceded all its rights on the island. |
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| His credibility was so deeply undermined that the abolition of the monarchy and establishment of a republic became an increasing possibility. |
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| In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city and established an oligarchic republic. |
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| Italy became a republic after a referendum held on 2 June 1946, a day celebrated since as Republic Day. |
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| Italy has been a unitary parliamentary republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by a constitutional referendum. |
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| The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments. |
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| However, he also wanted to stand for consul, the most senior magistracy in the republic. |
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| In the following century, France would be governed at one point or another as a republic, constitutional monarchy, and two different empires. |
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| A series of military and political struggles took place from that time until 1822, the result of which produced the republic of Gran Colombia. |
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| Beside the federal Yugoslav People's Army, each constituent republic of the former SFR Yugoslavia had its own Territorial Defense Forces. |
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| William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England were the most influential books on law in the new republic. |
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| On 20 September 1792 the National Convention abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic. |
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| To be considered a soldier in the service of the republic, an individual was required to provide his own arms and uniform for combat. |
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| Prior to the constitutional changes in 1919, the civic republic was ruled by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. |
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| The republic was heavily damaged by the war, and it required significant efforts to recover. |
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| According to the Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian is the only state language of the republic. |
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| Moldova is a parliamentary republic with a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government. |
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| Following the war, Romania became a socialist republic and member of the Warsaw Pact. |
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| In 1947 he and others forced King Michael I to abdicate and leave the country, and proclaimed Romania a people's republic. |
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| In 1923 Mainz participated in the Rhineland separatist movement that proclaimed a republic in the Rhineland. |
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| The continuous warfare made necessary a professional army, which was more loyal to its generals than to the republic. |
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| After the French king was overthrown and France became a republic, secret clubs favouring an Italian republic were formed throughout Italy. |
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| Italians chose a republic to replace the monarchy, which had been closely associated with Fascism. |
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| On 17 June 1944, when the Icelandic republic was founded, the Icelanders became independent from the Danish monarchy. |
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| On November 12, the National Assembly declared the rump state a republic and Social Democrat Karl Renner as provisional chancellor. |
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| In Ireland, revival of the Irish language was part of the reclaiming of Irish identity in the republic. |
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| The final blow was struck on 1 December, when Ukraine, the second most powerful republic, voted overwhelmingly for independence. |
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| Whether Sallust is considered a reliable source or not, he is largely responsible for our current image of Rome in the late republic. |
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| Switzerland was the last Western republic to grant women the right to vote. |
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| On November 12, 1918, the provisional national assembly voted for the republic and for unification with Germany with a large majority. |
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| The German High Command expected an overture of peace from the French, but the new republic refused to surrender. |
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| After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the government granted the Volga Germans an autonomous republic. |
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| Initially called Compagna Communis, the denomination of republic was made official in 1528 on the initiative of Admiral Andrea Doria. |
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| In the early 15th century, the republic began to expand onto the terra ferma. |
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| In 1454, the Supreme Tribunal of the three state inquisitors was established to guard the security of the republic. |
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| By 1970, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia recognized the republic and a truce was signed. |
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| Andrey was sent to the wayward republic instead, only to leave it several months later. |
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| In 1971, there was a failed attempt to depose the king and establish a republic. |
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| The Roman republic exacted tribute in the form of payments equivalent to proportional property taxes, for the purpose of waging war. |
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| It is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. |
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| President Thomas Jefferson refused to recognize the new republic, as did most European nations. |
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| Rio continued as the capital of Brazil after 1889, when the monarchy was replaced by a republic. |
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| Modern Uruguay is a democratic constitutional republic, with a president who serves as both head of state and head of government. |
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| Uruguay is a representative democratic republic with a presidential system. |
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| In 1972, the country became a republic named Sri Lanka, repudiating its dominion status. |
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| Sukarno and Mohammad Yamin meanwhile continuously advocated for a Greater Indonesian republic. |
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| The Philippine government also claimed that the heirs of the Sultanate had ceded all their territorial rights to the republic. |
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| The Philippines has a democratic government in the form of a constitutional republic with a presidential system. |
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| Between 1821 and 1825 the Trujillo region was the only stable and productive land within the nascent republic. |
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| A writer in the Oregon Country book A Pacific Republic, written in 1839, predicted the territory was to become an independent republic. |
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| Four years later, in 1843, settlers of the Willamette Valley voted in majority for a republic government. |
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| Pugachev began envisioning a Cossack tsardom, similar to Razin's vision of a united Cossack republic. |
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| The hypercontinental tendencies also result in very warm summers for much of the republic. |
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| As an inhabited locality, Yakutsk is classified as a city under republic jurisdiction. |
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| The republic abolished the slave trade early in the 15th century and valued liberty highly. |
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| The Italian language as spoken in the republic was heavily influenced by the Venetian language and the Tuscan dialect. |
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| Nigeria is a federal republic modelled after the United States, with executive power exercised by the President. |
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| Revivals encapsulated those hallmarks and forwarded the newly created Evangelicalism into the early republic. |
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| It assumed that a successful republic rested upon the virtue of its citizens. |
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| Women were considered to have the essential role of instilling their children with values conducive to a healthy republic. |
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| Although this concept has been in continuous existence throughout the history of the republic, its meaning has changed through time. |
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| Their dream of a republic, a nation without hereditary rulers, with power derived from the people in frequent elections, was in doubt. |
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| Some states in the early republic of the United States followed the English tradition of maintaining separate courts for law and equity. |
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| Roman law, in the days of the Roman republic and Empire, was heavily procedural and there was no professional legal class. |
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| After the nation became a republic in 1950, the President of India continued to perform the same functions. |
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| India ceased to be a dominion of the British Crown and became a sovereign democratic republic. |
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| Smith declared Rhodesia a republic in 1970, following the results of a referendum the previous year, but this went unrecognised internationally. |
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| Such a measure putatively undermined the authority of the stadtholder of the republic, Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange. |
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| The CRB became a veritable independent republic of relief, with its own flag, navy, factories, mills, and railroads. |
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| Victor's family is one of the most distinguished of that republic and his ancestors were counselors and syndics. |
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| It was either a small republic, or an oligarchy, and his father was an elected chieftain, or oligarch. |
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| The state of the Shakya clan was not a monarchy and seems to have been structured either as an oligarchy, or as a form of republic. |
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| Following a plebiscite, Iceland declared its independence on June 17, 1944 and became a republic, dissolving its union with Denmark. |
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| The rightmindedness, the virtue, and the subtlety of the interpreter became the new key to the validity of poetry in the Platonic republic. |
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| Since then, it has been part of Ukraine, but as an autonomous republic. |
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| To the present day they live there as the Ossetes, who have recently renamed their republic from North Ossetia to Alania. |
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| The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared. |
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| Some wanted a republic, but others favoured retaining some type of monarchical government. |
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| Despite his son's diplomatic efforts to save him, Charles I was beheaded in January 1649, and England became a republic. |
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| William feared that if he did not now head the conspiracy the English would set up a republic, even more inimical to the Dutch state. |
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| Genoa the city became a republic while its hinterland became the Ligurian Republic. |
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| The constitution preserved the appearance of a republic but in reality established a dictatorship. |
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| The interwar period saw strife between supporters of the new republic and hardline opponents on both the right and left. |
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| In 1804, Haiti secured independence from France, first as the Empire of Haiti, which later became a republic. |
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| The resulting English Civil War or War of the Three Kingdoms led to a revolutionary republic in England. |
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| In 1804, Haiti, the second republic in the western hemisphere, proclaimed its independence, achieved by slave leaders. |
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| The country became a republic in 1974, and although no longer a Commonwealth realm, remains a member state of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
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| Malta is a republic whose parliamentary system and public administration are closely modelled on the Westminster system. |
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| With dominion status in the Commonwealth of Nations, independent Pakistan had two British monarchs before it became a republic. |
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| After independence, Bangladesh became a secular democracy and a republic within the Commonwealth. |
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| Each college has its own curriculum and requirements with an emphasis of their choice, governed independently by each state of the republic. |
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| When Rome was a republic, effective speaking often determined who would be elected or what bills would pass. |
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| It reflects the seriousness and sense of responsibility that characterized the ruling class of Rome during the great years of the republic. |
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| Rather than a republic, Lawrence called for an absolute dictator and equivalent dictatrix to lord over the lower peoples. |
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| A common modern definition of a republic is a government having a head of state who is not a monarch. |
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| These names in turn are at the end of a tradition extending to the Roman republic. |
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| Although the constitution established the office of President of Ireland, the question over whether Ireland was a republic remained open. |
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| At the time, a declaration of a republic terminated Commonwealth membership. |
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| Ireland is a constitutional republic with a parliamentary system of government. |
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| The SSP has led republican protests and authored the Declaration of Calton Hill, calling for an independent republic. |
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| In 1922, Southern Ireland gained independence as the Irish Free State, later to become a republic under the name of Ireland. |
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| In 1949 the state was declared to be a republic, under the Republic of Ireland Act. |
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| Zaporizhian Sich was a pirate republic in Europe from the 16th through to the 18th century. |
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| As in England the republic was deemed constitutionally never to have occurred. |
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| Barbados, as a haven for refugees fleeing the English republic, had held for Charles II under Lord Willoughby until defeated by George Ayscue. |
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| Virginia had provided sanctuary for Cavaliers fleeing the English republic. |
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| The United States is a federal republic of 50 states, a federal district, five territories and eleven uninhabited island possessions. |
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| On 9 November, the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed a republic. |
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| There was no resistance when the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann on 9 November declared Germany to be a republic. |
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| Ghana, the first former colony declared a Dominion in 1957, soon demanded recognition as a republic. |
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| India is a federal republic governed under a parliamentary system and consists of 29 states and 7 union territories. |
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| From an administrative viewpoint, 21 of the counties in the republic are units of local government. |
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| Mea'ole died the next year, after which the country functioned as a monarchy until the death of Tanumafili and a republic thereafter. |
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| Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, abolished appeals to the Privy Council in 1972, on becoming a republic. |
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| Singapore is a unitary multiparty parliamentary republic, with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government. |
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| Singapore is a parliamentary republic with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government representing constituencies. |
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| Sierra Leone became a republic in 1971, and Stevens was installed as its first president. |
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| The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities. |
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| There had been rumours after the Broadway meeting of January 1648, that Levellers were conspiring with Royalists to overthrow the new republic. |
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| The United States is a constitutional republic, while the former Soviet Union was a socialist republic. |
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| The politics of Ethiopia takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government. |
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| Argentina is a federal constitutional republic and representative democracy. |
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| Brazil's current constitution, formulated in 1988, defines it as a democratic federal republic. |
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| The form of government is that of a democratic federative republic, with a presidential system. |
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| Since the Czech Republic is a democratic republic, journalists and media enjoy a great degree of freedom. |
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| The sparsely populated region of Drenthe was part of the republic too, although it was not considered one of the provinces. |
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| After a brief attempt to establish a kingdom, the country became a republic. |
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| In April 1949, Ireland was declared a republic, with the description of the Republic of Ireland. |
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| Although the republic stood in name, contemporaries of Augustus knew it was just a veil and that Augustus had all meaningful authority in Rome. |
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| The official inauguration only occurred in 1942 with the presence of the president of the republic, governors, and ministers. |
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| With his original Scottish Royalist followers and his new Covenanter allies, King Charles II became the greatest threat facing the new English republic. |
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| The opening of new trade routes to the Americas and the East Indies via the Atlantic Ocean marked the beginning of Venice's decline as a powerful maritime republic. |
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| Just before and after the execution of King Charles I on 30 January 1649, the Rump passed a number of acts of Parliament creating the legal basis for the republic. |
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| In the Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, a standard was developed from local varieties within a continuum with Serbia to the north and Bulgaria to the east. |
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| Since 1649 and prior to the Protectorate, England, Ireland and later Scotland had been governed as a republic by the Council of State and the Rump Parliament. |
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| The lengthy Haitian Revolution by its slaves and free people of color established Haiti as a free republic in 1804 ruled by blacks, the first of its kind. |
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| After Napoleon's ultimatum, Doge Ludovico Manin surrendered unconditionally on 12 May, and abdicated himself, while the Major Council declared the end of the republic. |
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| The Irish Free State distanced itself further from the British state with the introduction of a new constitution in 1937, making it a republic in all but name. |
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| The next day it abolished the monarchy and declared a republic. |
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| This action was blocked by the French Constitutional Council based on the 1994 amendment to the Constitution that establishes French as the language of the republic. |
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