Banana Republic's sales were down 3 percent from those a year ago.

The District has never seemed more like a banana republic than in the past few weeks.

The fact is that in recent years many states have been run like banana republics.

Every few years, they have a revolution in one of the banana republics.

Is it just another banana republic or something more sophisticated?

This just in: California has officially become a banana republic.

"We are acting like a banana republic," said one woman.

This country is turning into a banana republic, without the bananas.

Just the way of this banana republic, Gifford had said once.

And that really makes Russia look like a banana republic.