Sentence examples for republic functions from inspiring English sources

"This is supposed to be the example to the world of how a republic functions, and instead people are watching Third World images last night coming out of Chicago".

The new republic functioned as an official homeland for millions of Xhosa-speaking Africans in South Africa who were denied citizenship in that country under the laws of the apartheid system.

Is this how we want our republic to function?

Local government authorities in the republic have no functions in relation to police or education.

Indeed, 18th-century political thought warned that a republic could actually function only in a small expanse of territory (the size of one or two of the 13 states, say).

In the Oxford English Dictionary, "podesta" is defined as "a chief magistrate elected annually in medieval Italian towns and republics with judicial functions and almost unlimited powers". I have long thought it a good job description for the man who bears that name.

In short, the general is not much of a fan of free speech, an adversarial press, a transparent government, public accountability, or a great many other things that a constitutional, democratic republic requires to function.

And at the end of the day our democratic federal republic, when actually functioning, is the best way for people to live together.

Today, the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic are de facto functioning as one entity, although the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic territory is internationally recognized as de jure part of Azerbaijan.

This is not how our republic was designed to function".

In 1922 a Mexican ministry was reestablished, now in charge of the whole republic and taking up the functions that the states could not fulfill.