republic

[rɪˈpʌblɪk]

Definition:
1. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
2. A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch.

Use 'republic' in a sentence:

1. The Sydney Morning Herald carried the headline: "Sorry Ma'am, Most Australians Want a Republic."
2. Azerbaijan has been the odd man out, the one republic not to hold democratic elections.
3. The Republic of Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903.
4. He said the republic now had an inalienable right to self-determination.
5. We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.
6. The new Turkish republic he helped to build emerged from the ruins of a great empire.
7. They are moving in a pincer movement to cut the republic in two.
8. The president of the Czech Republic is in Washington on a state visit.
9. The President is now under pressure to yield power to the republics.
10. The Republic is a dominion of the Brazilian people.
11. The Roman Senate, in the late part of the Republic started dividing itself into two sort of parties.
12. The parliament described the decree as interference in the republic's internal affairs.
13. The Republic of Ireland is expected to raise interest rates.
14. The president placed the republic on a war footing.
15. The Estonian parliament has passed a resolution declaring the republic fully independent.
16. The move was immediately challenged by two of the republics.
17. Her private jet landed in the republic on the way to Japan.
18. The republic is a melting pot of different nationalities.
19. In 1918, Austria became a republic.
20. He has the distinction of being regarded as the Federal Republic's greatest living writer.
21. The Federal Republic must loosen its ties with the United States.
22. The beer is brewed in the Czech Republic.
23. The Republic was proclaimed in public with great ceremony.
24. The republic is a dominion of the Brazilian people.
25. The six fractious republics are demanding autonomy.
26. The republics have worked out a plan for sharing control of nuclear weapons.
27. The republic's factories have closed for the weekend to conserve energy.
28. What's important at this juncture is the ability of the three republics to work together.
29. The declaration proclaimed the full sovereignty of the republic.
30. He claimed that some countries have been trying to infiltrate their agents into the republic.
31. He is president of his own self-proclaimed republic.
32. It is the only republic which has no territorial disputes with the others.
33. The Republic of Ireland, in the south, is an independent country.
34. The Republic of Vanuatu sits between Hawaii and Australia.
35. Republic of Kenya is a country in Africa, with a population of about 48,000, Nairobi is the capital of Kenya.
36. The president of the republic oscillated between a certain audacity and a prudent realism.
37. It's still not clear how the president will use his power to bring the republics to heel.
38. The authoritative answers could be given only by Lenin himself, the head of the Government of the Soviet Republic.
39. The Baltic republics have called on the Scandinavian countries for help.
40. The children of parents deported there for no other reason than that they had been officials in the prewar republic.
41. He managed to reach a partial agreement with both republics.
42. Philip Morris, the tobacco company, does huge business in the Czech Republic.
43. People in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French Republic since 1946.
44. Some countries have infiltrated their agents into the Republic.
45. "The Irish Republic" was the greatest headache of the United Kingdom.
46. Ethnic tensions among the republics could lead to civil war.
47. The republic's legislation enables young people to do a form of alternative service.
48. How far the republics can give practical help, however, is uncertain.