noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an autonomous region/state/republic etc
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Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain.
banana republic
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
autonomous
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Congress delegates from South Ossetia and from the autonomous republic of Abkhazia boycotted the voting.
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Tuva, under the Soviet system, was always an autonomous republic .
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The Crimea had been an autonomous republic from 1921 to 1945.
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Each autonomous republic is represented by eleven deputies in the Soviet of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet.
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Gorbachev, Yanayev and the presidents of the autonomous republics were also members of the Federation Council.
breakaway
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Feb. 23-Chechen nationalists plan to hold mass demonstrations in Grozny, capital of the breakaway republic .
constituent
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The Treaty defined the demarcation of powers between the federation and the constituent republics as a component element of the new Constitution.
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It was not a Yugoslav constituent nation, nor a constituent republic .
democratic
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May 15, 1920 Democratic republic is declared by Constituent Assembly.
federal
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It is one conceived out of compromise and concession indispensable to the establishment of our federal republic .
independent
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The independent republics do not, for the most part, have firmly established systems of parties competing for office.
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Leaders of the independent republic , therefore, turned to foreign nations for loans to cover the expenses of government.
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In the South the church accepts the status of the independent republic and is loyal to it.
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We have nothing to fear, whatever the number of independent republics .
individual
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The area to be distributed was to be set by individual republics .
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It was made clear that the treaty did not infringe the rights and sovereignty of individual Soviet republics .
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The overall results within individual republics disguised considerable regional variations.
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Little detail was available on the needs of individual republics , and there appeared to be little co-ordination in the demands.
new
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The first part would ask voters whether they wanted a new republic or a return to the Third Republic.
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Bush recognized and established relations with the new republics on December 25, 1991.
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A transitional period to establish the new republic would last until March 1994.
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Instead he gave the Constitution and later the new republic the benefit of his penetrating mind and brilliant ability.
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Indeed, many Czech Roma were denied citizenship of the new republic under the 1993 Citizenship Law.
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Berlusconi, who is on trial for bribery, betrayed those who voted for a new republic .
other
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We have to judge whether recognition of two republics now would increase the very real danger of civil war in other republics.
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The same is true of the other republics .
socialist
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The demoralisation generated by the occupation was taken full advantage of by the Communists to establish a socialist republic .
soviet
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The former Soviet republics are still trying to sort out the relative powers of executive and assembly.
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It was made clear that the treaty did not infringe the rights and sovereignty of individual Soviet republics .
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Active follow-up with the former Soviet republics is now well in hand.
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The Kremlin has told four Soviet republics to drop controversial new laws on elections.
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banana
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This is proof of the erosive effects of past inflation rate which climbed to banana republic levels in the 1970s.
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The Agency had huge collections of intelligence on banana republics and their leaders.
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The guy has more titles than the leader of a banana republic .
yugoslav
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The Foreign Ministers agreed to recognise Yugoslav republics who meet certain conditions.
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Those Yugoslav republics which want independence will get it, but recognition now would not stop the fighting.
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The formula was part of peace talks in London aimed at ending the misery in the former Yugoslav republic .
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The position of all minorities in all the former Yugoslav republics is deteriorating.
■ VERB
become
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It became a republic for a second time in 1968 and a full member of the Commonwealth in 1985.
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After this Rome became a republic which steadily expanded and absorbed the adjacent peoples and countryside.
declare
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In Chechnya he quickly gained political popularity, was elected president and declared his republic an independent nation in 1991.
establish
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The demoralisation generated by the occupation was taken full advantage of by the Communists to establish a socialist republic .
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A transitional period to establish the new republic would last until March 1994.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Moldavia, a republic of more than 4 million people, borders Romania.
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the French Republic
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the People's Republic of China
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Bible translator in one of the Andean republics recounted the following story to the author.
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A working group, with representatives of all the republics concerned, was established to prepare a first draft.
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It is one conceived out of compromise and concession indispensable to the establishment of our federal republic .
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So might the decision to let the republics go it alone on economic reform.
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The elitist republic has evolved into an inclusive democracy.
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The Kazakh-brokered agreement had called for a ceasefire along the border between the two former Soviet republics.
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Tuva, under the Soviet system, was always an autonomous republic .