Sentence examples for big republic from inspiring English sources

When the little republics and the big republic are one and the same, liberty is fatally weakened.

Robert Lowe, one of the great Victorian architects of the modern business corporation, described businesses as "little republics" that operate as checks and balances on the power of the big republic of government.

In a big republic, their theory ran, the legislators are sufficiently removed from daily quarrels that they can choose to ignore all those factional passions and concentrate on doing a good job.

After it dissolved in the early 1990s, its biggest republic, Russia, has been the team to beat.

"The fact that the country's biggest republic will accept our plan will settle everything," Mr. Shatalin said.

Serbia, the biggest republic, accuses Croatia of trying to break up Yugoslavia, a multi-ethnic federation of six republics, but Croatia says Serbia wants to dominate all Yugoslavia.

Slovenia's advocacy of more autonomy for all Yugoslavia's eight regions has brought it into conflict with the rest of the country, particularly with the biggest republic, Serbia, which advocates strong central rule.

It's a whole big banana republic," Emmanuel Tom Ekin, a barber, says in the film.

The formula is well-suited to a big federal republic like Germany — or, for that matter, like the United States.

Several headlines referred to the "WikiLeaks shame"; former diplomat Asif Ezdi said they proved Pakistan had become "the world's biggest banana republic".

Kosovo is an autonomous part of the biggest Yugoslav republic of Serbia, but 90percentnt of its population of 1.9 million are ethnic Albanians, who have been struggling for years for their own federal republic.