Sentence examples for established republics from inspiring English sources

Born of revolutions, America and France each established republics inspired by Enlightenment thinking, and based on freedom and individual rights.

When the men got as far as Italy they put ashore at Taranto on the southern coast, expecting to be welcomed by a recently established republic there.

In 1853, Washington began to document a more public piece of history: he emigrated to the newly established Republic of Liberia, where he photographed former American slaves trying to build a free republic in West Africa.

After World War I he was elected to the Sejm of the newly established republic of Poland and soon became the leader of the Peasant Party, then the strongest political group in the Sejm.

After a cease-fire was declared in 1994, he was elected the first president of the newly established Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, although the country's independence was not recognized internationally.

DECEMBER -- Serbs vote to establish republic, oppose Bosnian independence from Yugoslavia.

Eventually the Boers established two republics which had a longer lifespan: the South African Republic or Transvaal Republic (1852 77; 1881–1902) and the Orange Free State (1854 1902).

Beyond the confines of the colony, they established separate republics in Natal, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal, outflanking the Xhosa along the southeast coast, where the British were confronted by a series of interlocking crises.

In 1492 Florentines had expelled a traitorous Medici ruler and established a republic.

In January 1964 a revolt by leftists overthrew the sultanate and established a republic.

In 1958, an Iraqi Army officer named Abdul Karim Qasim organized a coup that overthrew King Faisal II and established a republic.