(a.) Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
(n.) One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
(n.) A member of the Republican party.
(n.) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
(n.) A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(2) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(3) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(5) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
(6) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(7) Its restrictions are so strong that even many Republicans voted against it.
(8) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
(9) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(10) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(11) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
(12) Opposition to legal abortion takes magical thinking and a lack of logic | Jessica Valenti Read more The only female Republican candidate for the White House has doubled down on her restrictive position over reproductive rights since a successful debate performance .
(13) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(14) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
(15) Both a voter and Cooper repeatedly asked him if he stood by his comments in the last Republican presidential debate when he insisted that was the case.
(16) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(17) Whatever their other faults, most Republicans running for office this year do not share Trump’s unwillingness to condemn the Ku Klux Klan.
(18) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
(19) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
(20) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
Royalist
Definition:
(n.) An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, he was an intimate of Vuk Draskovic, the royalist opposition leader and the main opposition figure in the early 90s, but broke with him.
(2) As I said, I'm not much of royalist (I'm not even interested enough to be anti-monarchy), but purely on a human level, let's hope that the child is healthy and happy.
(3) By 2pm around 200 royalists and tourists had gathered outside St James's.
(4) Royalists are hoping that Felipe VI, so far untouched by any scandals, will help bolster the popularity of Spain's monarchy, whose approval ratings have hovered at record lows in recent years.
(5) General Prawit Wongsuwon, appointed as chairman of the advisory board, and General Anupong Paojinda, appointed to handle international relations, are well known royalists who, together with Prayuth, helped stage the 2006 coup that deposed the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecoms billionaire who is still at the heart of Thailand's political instability.
(6) The monarchy’s foundations are less secure than is often assumed, which is why royalists should be worried that the Queen will leave behind an institution as unreformed as it is undemocratic.
(7) He was an unabashed royalist, and made no secret of his pleasure in attending lunch at Buckingham Palace with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
(8) The prospect of restoring queen’s counsel in NSW and other states may recede, now that the tide in Canberra has turned against royalist flourishes.
(9) Thousands of anti-royalist protesters massed in the streets after Juan Carlos's abdication announcement.
(10) Popularly viewed as a motley ragbag of racist colonialists, Vichy sympathisers, antisemites and oddball royalists, Le Pen’s party was dismissed as a nasty coalition of history’s losers.
(11) Thierry Gaulot, a newly elected FN council member for Metz, around 35 miles from Forbach, insists that this is no longer about the old preoccupations of the French royalist right.
(12) The Newman government in Queensland with its frantically royalist attorney general Jarrod Bleijie, was a case in point.
(13) Legal action having failed, they duly swirled around the royalist end of Fleet Street .
(14) A career soldier known as a hardline royalist, Prayuth had been due to retire last year and spend his salad days playing golf.
(15) The contribution to the treatment of head injuries from Richard Wiseman, a Royalist surgeon during the English Civil War culminating in the battle of Worcester (1651), is presented.
(16) Recent attempts to reform the law have met fervent resistance by royalists, among them Prayuth, who according to the Associated Press told critics: "If you guys play hardball I'll have no choice but to do so too."
(17) Critics of the law say it has been used as a weapon against political enemies of the royalist elite and their military allies and now targets those opposed to the coup.
(18) There is, regardless of anyone's position on the royal family – and we do, on any 100-metre stretch, span the gamut: I met staunch royalists, fervent republicans, and a Polish guy called Bart who said: "I have no strong feelings, but I think it's nice for you to feel what you feel" – an underpinning idea that the Queen's job is quite hard.
(19) It sounds quite Scandinavian, which must be the way even British royalists will be heading when the Queen makes her last journey to the chapel at Windsor.
(20) Thailand’s ultra-royalist generals have long used their self-appointed position as defenders of the monarchy to justify coups and political interventions in the country’s often turbulent politics.