(1) The Agency had huge collections of intelligence on banana republics and their leaders.

(2) Banana republic, here we come.

(3) If investors decide that we're a banana republic whose politicians can't or won't come to grips with long-term problems, they will indeed stop buying our debt.

(4) The rhinos will always be there, but Banana Republic might be as well.

(5) Employers included a Quiznos sandwich shop and Banana Republic, the friend said.

(6) Before Castro, Cuba was considered something of a banana republic.

(7) The guy has more titles than the leader of a banana republic.

(8) This is proof of the erosive effects of past inflation rate which climbed to banana republic levels in the 1970s.

(9) Twenty-five years ago Paul Keating, the country's treasurer (finance minister)[Sentence dictionary], declared that if Australia failed to reform it would become a banana republic.

(10) The U.S. recession exacerbated a multiyear sales decline at the company's two largest brands, Old Navy and Gap, and sent sales into negative territory at its more upscale Banana Republic chain.

(11) Who would have thought that America's largest state, a state whose economy is larger than that of all but a few nations, could so easily become a banana republic?

(12) For the Chinese, the United States looks increasingly like a banana republic by comparison.

(13) No one is treating the Mexican federal government like a banana republic or a basket case or thinking that the Canadian government would have done so much better.

(14) On hearing her routine, Christopher Hitchens, a polemicist, remarked that "when comedians flatter the president, they become court jesters, and the country becomes a banana republic."

(15) In this sense, those bridges to nowhere are a sort of benevolent inefficiency, a form of waste that, just maybe, keeps us from becoming a banana republic.