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    republic


    1. The Republic of the Congo has been proclaimed, and our country is now in the hands of its


    2. It is with regret that we report the death of Karalintze Thwaite, Ambassador for the Republic of England to the Meh-Teh of Nepal


    3. In the living room he installed a fifty-six inch television monitor and was able to interact with online services in super-sized mode, which he found particularly useful when inspecting the assets and attributes of various potential brides from far flung lands such as the Czech Republic, the Ukraine and the Philippines


    4. Just one corrupt banana republic marketed by the leaders as this new


    5. About how dear Maria and Manolis were flown to Athens for her to be decorated with the Order of the Honour-Grand Cross by the President of the Hellenic Republic and how we were all their guests of honour there that day


    6. The night before Republic Day, I lay in bed with my thoughts


    7. I never wanted to celebrate Republic Day, which came in a week


    8. We told her we hosted a Korean student and the German student one year and then the next year we hosted a Czech Republic student and except for a few minor things it was pretty good experience with the girls living in our house


    9. Not to be confused with the Dominican Republic (next), two thirds is covered in tropical rainforest, rivers, streams and waterfal s


    10. we were intending to visit the Czech Republic

    11. The journey west through the Czech Republic in the


    12. Before the fall of the Roman republic, a usury of the same kind seems to have been common in the provinces, under the ruinous administration of their proconsuls


    13. This corn was brought from the conquered provinces, of which several, instead of taxes, were obliged to furnish a tenth part of their produce at a stated price, about sixpence a-peck, to the republic


    14. The real value of silver was higher at Rome, for sometime before, and after the fall of the republic, than it is through the greater part of Europe at present


    15. Three sestertii equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily


    16. Republic, a sort of a colony of the former


    17. Speaking of the ideal republic described in the laws of Plato, to maintain 5000 idle men (the number of warriors supposed necessary for its defence), together with their women and servants, would require, he says, a territory of boundless extent and fertility, like the plains of Babylon


    18. This is the short history of the republic of Berne, as well as of several other cities in Switzerland


    19. This bullion, as it circulates among different commercial countries, in the same manner as the national coin circulates in every country, may be considered as the money of the great mercantile republic


    20. The national coin receives its movement and direction from the commodities circulated within the precincts of each particular country ; the money in the mercantile republic, from those circulated between different countries

    21. Part of this money of the great mercantile republic may have been, and probably was, employed in carrying on the late war


    22. But whatever part of this money of the mercantile republic Great Britain may have annually employed in this manner, it must have been annually purchased, either with British commodities, or with something else that had been purchased with them ; which still brings us back to commodities, to the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, as the ultimate resources which enabled us to carry on the war


    23. The commodities most proper for being transported to distatnt countries, in order to purchase there either the pay and provisions of an army, or some part of the money of the mercantile republic to be employed in purchasing them, seem to be the finer and more improved manufactures; such as contain a great value in a small bulk, and can therefore be exported to a great distance at little expense


    24. The tribunes, when they had a mind to animate the people against the rich and the great, put them in mind of the ancient divisions of lands, and represented that law which restricted this sort of private property as the fundamental law of the republic


    25. She assigned them lands generally in the conquered provinces of Italy, where, being within the dominions of the republic, they could never form any independent state, but were at best but a sort of corporation, which, though it had the power of enacting bye-laws for its own government, was at all times subject to the correction, jurisdiction, and legislative authority of the mother city


    26. Under the republic no magistrate could have had authority enough to protect the slave, much less to punish the master


    27. Towards the declension of the Roman republic, the allies of Rome, who had borne the principal burden of defending the state and extending the empire, demanded to be admitted to all the privileges of Roman citizens


    28. The admission of the greater part of the inhabitants of Italy to the privileges of Roman citizens, completely ruined the Roman republic


    29. A rabble of any kind could be introduced into the assemblies of the people, could drive out the real citizens, and decide upon the affairs of the republic, as if they themselves had been such


    30. Martin knew Jorge would help his star pupil locate Maria because he would realize the threat the defection of Kurt Sloan might mean to the Republic and to his friend, the President

    31. In war and negotiation, the councils of Madras and Calcutta, have upon several occasions, conducted themselves with a resolution and decisive wisdom, which would have done honour to the senate of Rome in the best days of that republic


    32. They have for some years past made a pretty considerable sect, distinguished in the French republic of letters by the name of the Economists


    33. The Roman people, under their kings, and during the first ages of the republic, served in the same manner


    34. “Issued by Judge Jorge Lopez of the 6th District Court of the Atlantica Republic


    35. Warlock looks closely at the “4 x 6” screen in his hand-held scanner, “to enable the Security Division of the Atlantica Republic, Alleghenia District to apprehend, return, and interrogate Mr


    36. From the end of the second Carthaginian war till the fall of the Roman republic, the armies of Rome were in every respect standing armies


    37. Kurt Sloan and Miss Elizabeth Morgan of the State of Alleghenia of the Republic of Atlantica


    38. The standing army of Czesar destroyed the Roman republic


    39. But the factions of the Greeks were almost always violent and sanguinary ; whereas, till the time of the Gracchi, no blood had ever been shed in any Roman faction; and from the time of the Gracchi, the Roman republic may be considered as in reality dissolved


    40. The masters who instructed the young people, either in music or in military exercises, do not seem to have been paid, or even appointed by the state, either in Rome or even at Athens, the Greek republic of whose laws and customs we are the best informed

    41. It is, perhaps, worth while to remark, that though the laws of the twelve tables were many of them copied from those of some ancient Greek republics, yet law never seems to have grown up to be a science in any republic of ancient Greece


    42. The obligation which every citizen was under, to serve a certain number of years, if called upon, in the armies of the republic, sufficiently imposed the necessity of learning those exercises, without which he could not be fit for that service


    43. When the parish happened to be situated in a great city, it divided all the inhabitants into two parties; and when that city happened, either to constitute itself a little republic, or to be the head and capital of a little republic, as in the case with many of the considerable cities in Switzerland and Holland, every paltry dispute of this kind, over and above exasperating the animosity of all their other factions, threatened to leave behind it, both a new schism in the church, and a new faction in the state


    44. de Voltaire, that father Porée, a jesuit of no great eminence in the republic of letters, was the only professor they had ever had in France, whose works were worth the reading


    45. The republic of Hamburgh is said to do so from the profits of a public wine-cellar and apothecary's shop


    46. The republic of Florence was several times obliged to pay the debt into which their extravagance had involved him


    47. In a small republic, where the people have entire confidence in their magistrates, are convinced of the necessity of the tax for the support of the state, and believe that it will be faithfully applied to that purpose, such conscientious and voluntary payment may sometimes be expected


    48. The taxes upon the necessaries of life, therefore, may be no impeachment of the wisdom of that republic, which, in order to acquire and to maintain its independency, has, in spite of its meat frugality, been involved in such expensive wars as have obliged it to contract great debts


    49. The canton of Berne is the single republic in Europe which has amassed any considerable treasure


    50. The taste for some sort of pageantry, for splendid buildings, at least, and other public ornaments, frequently prevails as much in the apparently sober senate-house of a little republic, as in the dissipated court of the greatest king














































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    Synonyms for "republic"

    commonwealth democracy republic state country community federation government land

    "republic" definitions

    a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them


    a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch