Then,fifty years later, a group of American businessmen ousted the ruler and established the Republic of Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The North must remain the dictator of the republic until the spirit of the North shall become the spirit of the whole country.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Here are five problems, five wounds that are bleeding and threatening the life of the republic.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

She was the first female vice presidential candidate of the Republic Party.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

They called their new country the Republic of Liberia.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Long live the Republic of Panama!

VOA: special.2010.08.19

Madagascar's constitutional court declared Wednesday on national radio that opposition leader Andry Rajoelina has become president of the republic.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

On Tuesday, an Interior Ministry officer was killed in the republic and two others were wounded in a gun battle with rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

Of Somalia transitional government and regional officials invited to the hearing, the foreign minister of the Republic of Somaliland declined to attend.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Malashenko notes the situation in the republic is complicated. There are, he says successes as well as problems;

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"There is no such thing then, there is no such thing today in the Republic of Liberia,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

In the meantime, officials from Kabardino-Balkaria told President Dmitri Medvedev that steps are being taken to tighten security at other strategic facilities in the republic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

And the speaker of Russia's lower house of Parliament,Boris Gryzlov, says conditions in the republic are much improved and allow for an end to the anti-terrorist operation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26