Sentence examples for Republican from inspiring English sources

Chafee's candidacy seems targeted almost directly at Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy record – the Democratic equivalent of those conservative hawks who sought to enter the Republican primary solely to excoriate Rand Paul on the debate stage.

But Republican primary voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running.

"I vote Republican but I am a moderate and I think what has gone on has been political".

Despite the warnings — House Speaker John Boehner said Obama called him last week to reiterate that there would be no compromise on the debt ceiling — Republican leaders refuse to take Obama at his word.

Amid a steadily improving economy that has seen the highest pace of job creation in years, Republican attacks on Obama's handling of the country's finances were rarer than during the 2012 election campaign, when the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, styled himself as the candidate to turn around America's economic fate.

He has maintained tight control over both wings of the republican movement since the early 1980s.

And then there were the prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates: Sens. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Ryan all voted No – a thousand times no.

Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, also poured derision on the Republican letter in a statement expressing astonishment that members of Congress would seek to undermine a US administration by writing directly to a foreign power, and suggesting that the letter's authors had much to learn about international and even US law.

Many commentators noted that the letter, like the Republican invitation to the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to address Congress last week without consulting the White House, marked a dramatic break from the tradition that partisan politics should "stop at the water's edge" and not spread into critical US defence and security policy abroad.

During a speech at a Republican summit in New Hampshire on Saturday, Paul dinged Clinton as needing two campaign planes – "one for her and her entourage, and one for her baggage".

Banks and bankers are now potential targets for the Real IRA, leaders of the dissident republican terror group have warned in an exclusive interview with the Guardian.