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    republican


    1. Alan knew about that, "And lost a wife to a republican soldier as a mortal," he also knew


    2. There were very few others in their area, most having evacuated deeper into the Republican States or fled to Laurentia


    3. South of the Potomac, Dallas was still trying to consolidate it’s position as the capital of the new Republican States, Denver, Atlanta and even Charlotte were claiming they were really the new capital because they had larger economies than Dallas


    4. Pritzlaff had just commended the Republican national convention for bringing a fair amount of delegates to the city the month before, and hoped the Democrats would be as forthcoming when they met in a few weeks


    5. republican that followed seemed to be disadvantaged,


    6. In the republican governments of Holland, and of Berne in Switzerland, the farmers are said to be not inferior to those of England


    7. The elephant is the symbol of the United States Republican party


    8. Perhaps you are sharing the same views as the Republican party


    9. Their manners are more re publican; and their governments, those of three of the provinces of New England in particular, have hitherto been more republican too


    10. Men of republican principles have been jealous of a standing army, as dangerous to liberty

    11. The republican form of government seems to be the principal support of the present grandeur of Holland


    12. Any public calamity which should destroy the republican form of government, which should throw the whole administration into the hands of nobles and of soldiers, which should annihilate altogether the importance of those wealthy merchants, would soon render it disagreeable to them to live in a country where they were no longer likely to be much respected


    13. The parsimony which leads to accumulation has become almost as rare in republican as in monarchical governments


    14. Regarding the continuing debt limit negotiations between Republicans and Democrats, „Obama, who once infamously said that he"d meet with murderous tyrants such as Castro, Chavez, and Ahmadinejad “without preconditions” apparently won"t sully the office by meeting for lunch with the Republican Senate Minority Leader


    15. On April 15th of this year 2011, the Republican House, bless them, passed a sensible budget that includes both tax decreases and entitlement cuts


    16. Johnson did all of the same things, only more so, starting with the bugging of Goldwater"s campaign headquarters at San Francisco"s Cow Palace during the 1964 Republican convention


    17. Thus, not so many years ago, she announced that she had discovered in her dictionary that the word republican came between reptilian and repugnant


    18. Without this, there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments


    19. The rape of them did not constitute one of Republican Rome"s finest hours


    20. The result of November‘s off-Year elections may have sent a warning signal to the Clinton Administration as a number of prominent Democratic incumbents went down in defeat including the mayor of New York City where, in what might be considered a mild upset of sorts, Liberal Republican Rudolph Guliani narrowly defeated the empty suit Democratic incumbent David Dinkins

    21. I was deeply moved the other evening while watching President Reagan‘s birthday celebration hosted by Republican Party notables


    22. Suspicious ‖suicides‖, in particular, do not seem to make much of an impression on liberal journalists eager to protect one of their own by glossing over the legal and ethical failings of their favorite sons and daughters (which is putting it mildly) and reporting them on page 23 of the Washington Post or the New York Times; that would otherwise have discredited a Republican Administration and brought it down to its knees


    23. Yesterday‘s (November 8th) historical off-year elections resulted in the Republican Party seizing bilateral control of the House of Representatives and Senate for the first time since 1954


    24. In addition, Republican candidates won a majority of gubernatorial races


    25. This unexpected outcome will provide an excellent opportunity for the Republican Party to ―walk the talk‖ after decades of wandering in the (political) ―wilderness‖


    26. Therefore, A Conservative is likely to consider a Moderate Democrat a (Conservative) Democrat and a Moderate Republican a


    27. The ―Party of Lincoln‖ has been in a quandary in recent years over alternate strategies for attracting the African American Voter without seemingly compromising ―traditional‖ Republican Party Principles


    28. The Republican message should center on opportunity, values, self-determination and (human) dignity


    29. The Republican Party has been operating under the mistaken assumption that it will be able to successfully rally its conservative base, never traditional allies to begin with, by pushing for higher tax cuts


    30. One of the keynote speakers at the 1996 Republican Convention was a paraplegic, a decorated New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and permanently disabled as a result of his gunshot wounds

    31. Although Conservatives may be found among the ranks of both major political parties, shifting political and social alliances in recent years suggest a preference for the Republican Party; in whatever many of the rank and file have been oftentimes marginalized by Republican Party leaders


    32. Nevertheless, despite their many disappointments, Conservatives continue to be courted by the Republican Party and its vast array of chameleon ―Conservatives‖


    33. Be that what it may, having weighed the possibility of a third-party (George Wallace) and finding it untenable or perhaps untimely might be the better word, many (Conservatives) sought refuge in the Republican Party who many believed reflected their values


    34. It‘s nearly Machiavellian the manner in which this ―desirable‖ although not so favored group continues to be courted by the Republican Establishment


    35. I suppose the Republican Party serves as good a place as any


    36. The Republican Congress, in its infinite wisdom, has recently proposed a measure that would allow the Commonwealth of Puerto


    37. What‘s next on the agenda, proposed Statehood for The District of Columbia that will further increase the number of Democratic seats in both houses of Congress on the chance of attracting potential African American voters? This bill is without question a lose/lose proposition for the Republican Party which would better serve its (own) political interests and the interests of the nation by attracting party support on the quality of its (own) party principles rather than its transparent pandering for problematical votes


    38. (collective) mainstream at a time our nation was predominately agrarian and (widely) dispersed; to harness our (fledgling) nation‘s intellectual resources as well as laying the moral foundation(s) of model citizenship by instilling Republican Virtues and establishing guidelines for being or becoming an American


    39. A Republican caught red-handed with his or her hand in the (proverbial) cookie jar is likely to feign shame and remorse for such an


    40. Question: What strategies should the Republican Party adopt in order to retain its majority in both Houses of Congress in the

    41. President Bush‘s flawed Immigration Reform Bill providing ―conditional‖ amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens must be reassuring to 1) (Moderate) Republicans who would consider its passage a political opportunity to place the party in better stead with Hispanic Voters and the Business Community, 2) Corporations seeking to attract Cheap(er) Labor, 3) Democrats who, for the same reasons indicated above, are uncomfortable with the idea of controlling our nation‘s borders at the risk of alienating a sizeable voting bloc and (who) would otherwise seize the moment, for purely political reasons, to challenge Republican proposals that (surprise!) ―don‘t go far enough,‖ 4) Multiculturalists and Internationalists likely to embrace such ―reforms‖ as a (positive) first step towards achieving their (respective) Universalist Agenda, and 5) Shakers of Western Culture who would seek its destruction at any cost for its own sake and who would therefore (also) consider such measures as an appropriate step in the ―right‖ direction


    42. The New York State Republican Party has completely gone to seed


    43. This is where Republican (alternative) policies came into play


    44. Neither did these candidates feel a need to abandon their conservative credentials as have a number of recent statewide Republican office holders of late


    45. The (overriding) question remains: why have Republican Candidates, politically successful on a number of statewide levels in past years, suddenly chosen to alienate its conservative base and potential (moderate) swing voters


    46. The most any Conservative/Moderate Republican Candidate could reasonably hope to achieve is perhaps 35 percent of the citywide vote


    47. This does not explain, however, the Republican Party‘s lackluster support among the more traditionally moderate to conservative suburban communities located outside the city‘s outlining areas, not to mention upper New York State whose population has overwhelmingly voted Republican over the years


    48. ‖ Nevertheless the Republican Party continues losing ground


    49. Other potential Republican presidents would not make this choice either


    50. Conservative influence within the Republican Party, despite liberal protestations, is clearly waning














































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    Synonyms for "republican"

    republican republican river

    "republican" definitions

    a member of the Republican Party


    an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)


    a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas


    relating to or belonging to the Republican Party


    having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government