How to Use republicanism in a Sentence

republicanism

noun
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  • Laboulaye had in mind a monument to the end of slavery here and the rebirth of republicanism there.
    — Adam Gopni, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
  • An old idea is back in fashion on the American right: small-r republicanism.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 20 Aug. 2022
  • And that, in a nutshell, is what Republicanism has become.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 8 Apr. 2017
  • Still, his speech Tuesday night will surely be remembered as a low point for both the concept of democracy and the practice of republicanism.
    — NBC news, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The open letter was the latest salvo in a raging culture war within France on Islam, race, republicanism, and all things in between.
    — Harrison Stetler, The New Republic, 24 May 2021
  • But far from giving republicanism a boost, the new king’s standing in the public is likely to be bolstered by the transition, analysts say.
    — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Marshall took the court’s reins just as Jeffersonian republicanism swept through the White House and Congress.
    — Adam J. White, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The move follows a swell in support for republicanism in the Caribbean, which campaigners say is part of a larger reckoning with the legacy of British colonialism and the slave trade in the region.
    — Eloise Barry, Time, 14 Sep. 2022
  • With Gill, the time has come for the court to fulfill its responsibility to protect small-d democracy, as well as small-r republicanism.
    — Palma Joy Strand, Slate Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017
  • On the flipside of Unionism is Irish republicanism, which prioritizes no border between the two Irelands at any cost.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Britain’s monarchy would need to come up with a very good reason for empire unionism, which today may be a letter even more dead in UK politics than outright republicanism.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Being famous for stealing Vermeers is an odd fate for a woman who would clearly prefer to be remembered, if at all, as a heroine of Irish republicanism.
    — Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
  • These days, Carlson is adored by precisely the people who might once have dismissed him as a twerpy avatar of establishment Republicanism.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Napoleon’s victory dealt a body blow to a European old regime already tottering from the spread of republicanism and popular sovereignty.
    — Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But fellow Caribbean country Barbados recently dropped the Queen, 95, as head of state — and there are rumblings of republicanism in Jamaica, too.
    — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • This last mandate represents the heart of republicanism.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • With ‘The Arch of Nero,’ Cole warned his countrymen about how republicanism was inherently subject to corruption.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 15 June 2021
  • And republicanism simmers not far from the surface in major Western democracies like Canada and Australia.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Some activists and academics argue that the move to republicanism is the first step in the process of recovering reparations for the human rights abuses and plundering of countries under colonialism.
    — Eloise Barry, Time, 14 Sep. 2022
  • From within and without the halls of power, Hugo championed a range of social causes ranging from republicanism and freedom of the press to the abolition of the death penalty, and was exiled from France for his strident political views.
    — Ryan Kilpatrick, Time, 29 June 2017
  • For more than a decade, Islamist terrorism has overtaken Irish republicanism as the key threat for British security services.
    — Jane Merrick, CNN, 23 May 2017
  • Sandel, by contrast, is committed to civic republicanism, a creed extending all the way back to Aristotle, who taught that the higher purpose of a political order (the baser one being self-serving commerce) involved the search for the good life.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Jackson does a brilliant job detailing the evolution of de Gaulle from a normal French officer who has contempt for the squabbling, mediocre politicians of the Third Republic into a clear voice for republicanism.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Calls for republicanism have been growing in Jamaica, which celebrates its 60-year anniversary of independence from Britain this year.
    — Alison Fishburn, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Note how the language of citizenship and republicanism are seldom applied to black Americans.
    — Annette Gordon-Reed, The New York Review of Books, 13 June 2020
  • While the monarchy has little-to-no governing power in the United Kingdom—making violent conflict over any changes improbable—republicanism is on the rise.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2022
  • But by letting us hear what Adams had to say, Ryerson helps us understand the driving concern that above all defined his peculiar form of republicanism: an intense worry about the power of an entrenched elite in a free society.
    — Nr Symposium, National Review, 31 July 2017
  • But Scotland and Northern Ireland do not need to avow republicanism to vote for democratic self-determination.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Yet this same avidity also means that if public opinion shifts significantly towards republicanism, vote-hungry politicians will be the first to jump on that tumbrel.
    — Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • What this will mean for French republicanism, the secular ideology that undergirds the state and the educational system, is unclear.
    — Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2019

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