Sentence examples for republic of which from inspiring English sources

With frequent reference to the Romantic poet and philosopher Novalis, Keane argues that Havel has sought to establish a "crowned republic," of which he would be both monarch and muse, serving as an artistic and civic inspiration to his people.

Ulan-Ude is geographically closer to Beijing than Moscow and, culturally, it feels Asian: Buryatia, the republic of which it is the capital, is one of two Buddhist states in the Russian Federation.

The Filipinos, who declared their independence of Spain on June 12 , 1898 proclaimed a provisional republic, of which Aguinaldo was to become president; and in September a revolutionary assembly met and ratified Filipino independence.

Worst of all, although the facts are still sketchy and are likely to remain so it seems that most of them came from Kabardino-Balkaria, the semi-autonomous republic of which Nalchik is the capital, not from nearby, war-ravaged Chechnya: the Nalchik-based Islamist group implicated had hitherto been considered relatively minor.

"I believe however that when my imprisonment shall cease and my wound heal, the favorable opportunity shall have come, in which I will be able to satisfy my desire to serve the Great American Republic, of which I am a citizen, and which to day fights for the Universal freedom".

Both have a smaller number of outlets than HMV: 80 for Fnac and 37 for Virgin, as opposed to HMV's 285 stores in the UK and Irish Republic, of which about 40 now face closure (with 20 Waterstone's outlets also set to shut).

Noble titles confer no status or privilege in the four republics of which Habsburg held citizenship, but while Germany – where he spent most of his later life – tolerates their use, in Austria they are banned by law.

The Kremlin remains a principal sponsor of stalemated conflicts in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the Trans-Dniester Republic, all of which have become lawless regions within other sovereign states.

Both the founder of the school, Zeno, and the school's later head Chrysippus wrote works in the Platonic genre entitled Republic, neither of which survives in full.

Until this year, Yugoslavia consisted of six republics, each of which had a constitutional right to secede, although procedures for the move have never been spelled out.

Now these ex-Soviet republics, two of which have large Russian minorities, worry about being the next target of Vladimir Putin's irredentism.