Sentence examples for some republic from inspiring English sources

"They decided to tell us how great it is when some republic moves for self-determination.

The company started making windows in April and rehired some Republic workers.

More profound changes seemed likely as a result of the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and would probably involve the reversion of farmlands to private ownership in some republics.

Some republics like Tatarstan (a republic in Central Russia dominated by distant cousins to the Crimean Tatars) had considerable self-rule, granted in part to placate them and stop them seeking to break away from Russia like the separatist movement in Chechnya.

Iran is not some banana republic.

This is not some banana republic beyond the woebegone".

You could say the same about the Nazis, compared to the indulgence and incompetence of some Weimar Republic leaders.

At his sentencing, Mr. Wollard said he felt as if he were in "some banana republic" and described the boyfriend as a violent drug dealer.

In an interview with the New York Times, he said: "I'm very worried about the president's intention to say Brazil is some minor republic where coups are carried out".

But Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs said it was relevant that in early December, before his arrest, Mr. Madoff "could have fled without tipping off anyone and taken $100 million and settled in some tropical republic, yet he did not do that".

And naturally there are plenty even among Chelsea's supporters already suffering from unveiling-fatigue, the temptation to equate these occasions with the wheeling out of the latest puppet prime minster by some banana republic despot.