In 1986 the republic received a grant from the French government's CCCE to renovate and expand Hahaya airport, near Moroni.

He also received the seigniory of other cities of the duchy, including Lodi, and started to carefully plan the conquest of the ephemeral republic, allying with William VIII of Montferrat and ( again ) Venice.

Moldova has received some arms from former Soviet stocks maintained on the territory of the republic as well as undetermined quantities of arms from Romania, particularly at the height of the fighting with Transnistria.

The new republic was not officially recognized by Soviet authorities ; however, it received support from some important Soviet leaders, such as Anatoly Lukyanov.

Meanwhile Wyttenbach received invitations from his native city, Bern, and from Leiden, where vacancies had been created by the refusal of professors to swear allegiance to the new Dutch republic set up in 1795, to which Wyttenbach had made submission.

From the old court he received distinctions and rewards of all kinds ; the republic made him an inspector of the conservatoire ; Napoleon granted him the cross of the legion of honour and a pension.

In 1875, he was elected a life senator, in 1878 received the grand cross of the Legion of Honour, and in 1879, without his consent, was nominated for the presidency of the republic, receiving a third of the total votes.

The document was well received, and Sarpi was made canonist and theological counsellor to the republic.

Numerous other pamphlets appeared, inspired or controlled by Sarpi, who had received the further appointment of censor of everything written at Venice in defence of the republic.

In April 2005, he received media attention when he speculated about quitting the Liberal Party because of his disgust with the sponsorship scandal, saying that the issue made Canada look like " a northern banana republic ".

So he turned to the small and isolated republic of Haiti, that had freed itself from French rule, but being composed of mostly former slaves, received little aid from either the United States or Europe.

He was well received in Venice, for the republic was beginning to fear the ambitions of the Visconti, and the new doge, Francesco Foscari, was anxious to join the Florentines and go to war with Milan.

He received a military education, which he refined as apostolic protonotary under Pope Martin V. The fighting bishop of Recanati from 1431, and afterwards made a cardinal, he was commander of the papal armies of Pope Eugene IV when the Colonna faction at Rome, infuriated by the reversal of their fortunes when Eugene succeeded Martin V ( a member of the Colonna ), backed an insurrection that raised a temporary republic at Rome and forced Eugene into exile at Florence in May 1434.

On January 10, 2010 a second round of voting was held, because on the main election day on December 27, 2009 in 39 out of 135 electoral districts of the republic none of the candidates received more than 50 percent of the votes needed for a win.

The republic received strong support from the Soviet Union, which occupied Iran during the same era and included the Kurdish towns of Piranshahr, Sardasht, Bukan, Naqada and Ushnaviya.

Now General Odumegwu-Ojukwu knew that the odds against the new republic were overwhelming.

The 2008 Constituent Assembly election transitioned Nepal from a monarchy to a parliamentary republic and gave an overwhelming victory to the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ), ostensibly ending the protracted civil war.

As stated above, this support has been key to the growth and revitalization of the economy and infrastructure in the republic.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office accused Columbia of accepting grant money from the Alavi Foundation to support faculty " sympathetic " to Iran's Islamic republic.

There he was influenced by his compatriots to support the revolutionary movement to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and to set up a Chinese republic.

Nazarbayev, however, continued to support him, persistently urging other republic leaders to sign the revised Union Treaty, which Gorbachev had put forward in a last attempt to hold the Soviet Union together.

More trusting in the power of rhetoric to support a republic, the Roman orator Cicero argued that art required something more than eloquence.

He was also involved in mobilising students in support of the ANC call for a stay at home to be held in protest of South Africa's becoming a republic.

* April 29 – Pope Pius IX publishes an allocution announcing his refusal to support Piedmont-Sardinia in its war with Austria and dispelling hopes that he might serve as ruler of a pan-Italian republic.

The Popular Front's proposal, to declare the independence of Estonia as a new, so-called " third republic " whose citizens would be all those living there at the moment found less and less support over time.

Although the majority of Estonia's large Russian-speaking diaspora of Soviet-era immigrants did not support full independence, they were divided in their goals for the republic.

The two campaigned together in support of the 1999 referendum that would have made Australia a republic.

In May 2008, a Morgan poll found 45 % believe Australia should become a republic with an elected president, while 42 % support Australia remaining a monarchy and 13 % are undecided.

The Australian Electoral Survey that is conducted following all elections by the Australian National University has found that support for a republic has remained reasonably static since 1987 at around 60 %, if the type of republic is not part of the question.

31 % strongly support a republic while only 10 % strongly oppose.

An opinion poll held in November 2008 that separated the questions found support for a republic at 50 % with 28 % opposed.

In October 2009 another poll by UMR found 59 % support for a republic and 33 % opposition.

However, an opinion poll conducted in 2011 saw a sharp decline in the support for an Australian republic.

The polling conducted by the Morgan Poll in May 2011 showed the support for the monarchy was now 55 % ( up 17 % since 1999 ), whereas the support for a republic was at 34 % ( down 20 %).

The turnaround in support for a republic has been called the " strange death of Australian republicanism ".

The Australian Greens strongly support a move towards a republic.

The Australian Democrats ( formerly Australia's third party ) strongly support a move towards a republic through a system of an elected Head of State through popular voting.

At the Convention, a republic gained majority support ( 89 votes to 52 with 11 abstentions ), but the question of what model for a republic should be put to the people at a referendum produced deep divisions among republicans.

On 12 June 1946, the Kingdom of Italy formally came to an end as Umberto transferred his powers to Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi and called for the Italian people to support the new republic.

It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

Ezra Stiles Gannett, an honorable representative of the sanhedrin, addressed himself frankly to the issue in 1845, insisting that Parker should not be persecuted or calumniated and that in this republic no power to restrain him by force could exist.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

Athena has been used numerous times as a symbol of a republic by different countries and appears on currency as she did on the ancient drachma of Athens.

The system of having two rectors was found to lead to frequent quarrels and the republic thenceforth sent out a single official styled Bailie and Captain, assisted by two councilors, who performed the duties of camerlengo by turns.

In 921 the Banu Muhallab of Guadix submitted, followed by those of Jerez and Cádiz, as well as the trading republic of Pechina ( 922 ).

Chile's first experiment with self-government, the " Patria Vieja " ( old republic, 1810 – 1814 ), was led by José Miguel Carrera, an aristocrat then in his mid-twenties.

A new Constitution was approved by plebiscite characterized by the absence of registration lists, on September 11, 1980, and General Pinochet became president of the republic for an 8-year term.

The politics of Croatia are defined by a parliamentary, representative democratic republic framework, where the Prime Minister of Croatia is the head of government in a multi-party system.

Frustrated by the Qing court's resistance to reform and by China's weakness, young officials, military officers, and students began to advocate the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the creation of a republic.

In 1993 Mauritius and Seychelles had two of the five embassies in Moroni, and Mauritius and Madagascar were connected to the republic by regularly scheduled commercial flights.

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

In between series of juntas ( and various other short-lived regimes ), the young republic was governed by " consuls of the republic " in power ( 2 consuls alternating in power every 4 months ):

Also they oversaw the organization of festivals and games ( ludi ), which made this a very sought after office for a career minded politician of the late republic, as it was a good means of gaining popularity by staging spectacles.

" For example, James Madison argued for a constitutional republic with protections for individual liberty over a pure democracy, reasoning that, in a pure democracy, a " common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole ... and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party ...."

From 1653 to 1659, although still legally known as a Commonwealth, the republic operated under different institutions ( at times as a de facto monarchy ) and is known by historians as the Protectorate.

They quickly realized that ethnic inclusiveness was needed if the new republic was to maintain control over the territories bequeathed by the Qing dynasty.

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta ( formed by the heads of the navy, air force, National Police, and a representative of the army, the head of the Army being president of the republic ), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.