All 9 Uses
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- And a star-spangled graphic across the screen said something that might have been a foreign language for all the sense Mortenson could make of it: "Minority Whip Touts Republican Takeover."
Chpt 9
- On the television, a strident, cocksure voice told an interviewer, "We are embarked on the second American Revolution and you have my solemn vow that with a new Republican majority in Congress, American life is about to be profoundly different."
Chpt 9
- I'm a Republican from Palm Springs and I have to tell you I learned more from you in the last hour than I have in all the briefings I've been to on Capitol Hill since 9/11.
Chpt 21
- When the congresswoman's former pop-star husband Sonny Bono, a Republican representative from Palm Springs, California, had died skiing into a tree in 1998, she was urged to run for her husband's seat by Newt Gingrich.
Chpt 21
- A former gymnast, rock climber, and fitness instructor, Bono hardly resembled a run-of-the mill Republican when she arrived in Washington at the age of thirty-seven, especially when she displayed her honed physique in an evening gown at official functions.
Chpt 21
- And soon Mary Bono, with an intelligence as unsettling as her looks, was being talked of as a rising star in the Republican party.
Chpt 21 *
- A Republican congressman from California interrupted Mortenson in midsentence, challenging him.
Chpt 21
- And the proximity to the former Soviet Republics was obvious, as gangs of heavily armed Chechens, speaking in Slavic cadences that sounded especially foreign to Mortenson's ear, marched in businesslike fashion toward mosques for morning prayer.†
Chpt 23republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- The official thumbed past dozens of the imposing black-and-white visas from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan that were glued onto every other page, and scrawled Afghan visas issued by the Northern Alliance, the questions in his mind mounting, and left Mortenson to speak to his superior.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(republic as in: the country is a republic) of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
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(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.