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People's Republic

n.
A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party.
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When we changed the constitution from a popular Republic of Cambodia to State of Cambodia, we already abolished the death penalty.
Popular Republic of Soul will play at Hamishes' Hoose again tonight
Algiers, Shawwal 24, 1439, July 08, 2018, SPA -- Abdulkarim Mansouri, Chairman of the National Agency for Investment Promotion of Algeria, today lauded the firmness of the Saudi Algerian economic ties, encouraged by the care and interest of both the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and President Abdulaziz Boutaflika of the Democratic Popular Republic of Algeria.
In the name of Nigeria's Head of State and Government, Major-General Yakubu Gowon, and of people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and on behalf of myself and my colleagues on the Nigerian delegation, I extend my very hearty and warm thanks to His Excellency the President of the Revolutionary Council and the Head of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, Colonel Houari Boumcdienne, for the profuse kindness and lavish hospitality which I and my colleagues have enjoyed, since the Ministerial Council of the OAU commenced its meetings here on the fourth of this month.
Florence became a popular republic dominated by a Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498).
As the title of this volume suggests, the book is an original attempt to analyze and think through the transformation of Romanian communism both in internal and foreign affairs since January 1948 when Romania became a popular republic. On the theoretical level, while sweeping through all four major theories in international relations (Realism, Pluralism, Marxism and Social-Constructivism), the author emphasis that the most appropriate theory which provides us with a comprehensive understanding of the international orientation of communist Romania is Social-Constructivism.
"I am glad to congratulate your election as new parliament speaker of the friendly country of the popular republic of Bangladesh," the Iranian parliament speaker said in his message.
Diplomats, a large number of actors and media figures based in Guangzhou were also present.For his part, Sheikh Ali Al-Jaber said "expansion of our diplomatic representation across the world namely in the Popular Republic of China is in line with the government concern for building bridges of friendship and cooperation with states of the world.
Under the generous auspices of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, and in complementation to efforts to resolve the Lebanese crisis by the Arab ministerial committee, which was led by Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr Al Thani and included the League of Arab States' secretary-general, Amr Moussa, and their excellencies the foreign ministers of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Democratic Popular Republic of Algeria, the Republic of Djibouti, the Sultanate of Oman, the Moroccan Kingdom and the Republic of Yemen,
And so, ironically, in the end the two groups agreed that a Medicean prince was preferable to a popular republic.
The popular Republic of Ireland defender has been guaranteed his place in Sir Alex Ferguson's starting line-up to tackle Spanish giants Barca in next week's Champions League final.
The popular Republic of Ireland international will make his 431st appearance for the Magpies, which will take him level with Northern Ireland star Alf McMichael.