Sentence examples for renegade republics from inspiring English sources

Mr. Saakashvili inherited three renegade republics when he took office.

Although the Soviet leadership and the mass media have repeatedly criticized the Baltic republics' drive for independence, the main evening television news program, Vremya, tonight broadcast an unusually reserved and balanced report about the meeting, depicting it more as a conference of heads of foreign states rather than of renegade republics.

Given China's strained relationship with the renegade republic, the mainland authorities are unlikely to have taken to the film.

The Lithuanian decision was made despite the worsening effects of an economic blockade imposed by Moscow on the renegade republic more than a month ago.

In that meeting, Mr. Gorbachev reiterated his longstanding demand that the renegade republic place a moratorium on its declaration of independence as a condition for negotiations with Moscow.

Georgia has never given up its claim to Abkhazia, and the new Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili, has pledged to bring the renegade republic into the national fold, as he is also trying to do with another separatist region, South Ossetia.

This "renegade province" is a thriving democracy.

However, as long as the People's Republic of China continues to treat Taiwan as a renegade province, and as long as an autocratic China continues toward superpower status, independence will not come peacefully to Taiwan.

"We don't mind if the United States has rapprochement with mainland China -- we think it's good to bring the P.R.C. into the family of civilizations," he says of the People's Republic of China, which considers Taiwan to be a renegade province.

One after another, Vanuatu's far-flung provinces rejected the authority of the Imperial Bedroom, in turn declaring their own independence as republics, grand-duchies and empires (I even seem to recall a renegade emirate).

Mr. Yeltsin, a renegade Communist who was expelled from the Politburo in 1988, is campaigning for the post on a platform of sovereignty for the Russian Republic.