Then the 1980s, then Tangentopoli, the end of the first republic, the crisis of the party system, a whole nation believing that the hegemonies and authorities that had administered the country for 50 years are basically a gang of crooks.
About three weeks ago the Maoist prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who goes by the name Prachanda, resigned, plunging the nascent republic into a crisis set off by his failure to fire the army chief.
Diarrhoea already caused 10 per cent of all deaths of children under five in the Central African Republic before the crisis.
Montenegrin officials and Serbian opposition leaders agreed here today to work toward creating a new union of the two Yugoslav republics after a crisis over constitutional changes.
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, (born 519?, bc), Roman statesman who gained fame for his selfless devotion to the republic in times of crisis and for giving up the reins of power when the crisis was over.
519 BCE? Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, (born 519?, bc), Roman statesman who gained fame for his selfless devotion to the republic in times of crisis and for giving up the reins of power when the crisis was over.
From 375 BC to 371 BC, the republic experienced a constitutional crisis during which the tribunes used their vetoes to prevent the election of senior magistrates.
Joseph Goebbels, in the 1920s and 1930s, used the radio to promote Nazism in a Weimar Republic undermined by economic crisis and political disintegration.
"Every parent, however they might be living – either deep in the bush like in the Central African Republic, or deep in crisis like in the Sahel, or as refugees from Somalia pouring into the Dadaab refugee camp – the parents speak of the value of education.
