Sentence examples for republican element from inspiring English sources
Questioning the necessity for elections, Mr Mesbah-Yazdi, a hardline cleric, said the system's Islamic component should override the republican element, meaning officials should derive their authority from God rather than people's votes.
But hopes of a comprehensive agreement on Iranian nuclear development have been dampened by a Republican element in Washington - particularly a lobby in Congress that has called for a new round sanctions – and from Iranian conservatives.
They charged that Fields had the support of a dangerous "bipartisan combine", with the Republican element of the combine led by Maurice Galvin.
I'm blaming the republican element who are prepared to stop at nothing to try to get rid of whatever Protestant community there is left in this village.
Once he began seeking office, in an appeal to certain Republican elements he started making increasingly anti-abortion statements.
But they believed that by taking hold of the republican elements of the state the people could chip away at authoritarianism.
Other Republican elements, however, rejected Grant out of a concern that his nomination would reopen fissures within the party and that a third term would set an unwise precedent.
It was about more fundamental issues of the direction of the Islamic Republic, and whether the republican elements – severely eroded since the first controversial election of Ahmadinejad in 2005 – should be discarded altogether as an idea which has outlived its sell-by date, or whether it should actually be given a new lease of life.
Last month when Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu made his ill-advised plea to Congress to scuttle the nuclear negotiations with Iran, fringe Republican elements in Congress, along with right wing fellow travelers, called Bibi the 21st century's version of Winston Churchill.
Senate Republicans support elements of the Democratic bill and may not stand in the way of its full consideration.
And Republicans see elements of the Democratic plans as government intrusion into personal health care decision making.
