republican
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The vehicle was stopped during an operation targeting dissident republican activities on Wednesday but further details are just emerging.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Earlier, a police operation targeting dissident republican activity had been carried out nearby.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
And as Wood explains in his great book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” these ideas would spread and unleash the republican spirit of free men and women who built America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Independence required Americans to believe in the risky project of devising a new, republican constitution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
He fulfilled his obligations as a “singular character” so capably that he seemed to defy the republican tradition itself.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
That leaves many Irish republicans in an unexpected position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
Even though the British side believed Mr Storey masterminded the operation, influential Irish Americans were less willing to accept that republicans were behind it.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
Militant Irish republicans had been paying close attention to Carson’s tactics — which anticipated Mao Zedong’s maxim about the source of political power — and would eagerly emulate his example in the years ahead.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024
When the King and Queen fly into Sydney on Friday, they will be greeted by one of Australia's most prominent republicans, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
The naval revolt collapsed in March, 1894: some of the ironclads escaped from Rio harbour and fled to Santa Catharina, where they were captured by the republicans.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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Chapter 3, Sections 1–2
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