regime

[reɪˈʒiːm]

Definition:
1. The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.
2. A method or system of government, especially one that has not been elected in a fair way.

Use 'regime' in a sentence:

1. Until last year, the regime kept a tight grip on the country.
2. The regime is accused of oppressing religious minorities.
3. The regime built up the largest army in Africa.
4. The iniquities of the regime are incarnated in one man.
5. Sexually explicit scenes in movies and books were taboo under the old regime.
6. Recent historical work looks kindly on the regime.
7. The regime finally collapsed after 25 years of misrule.
8. The rebels would not be happy with anything other than the complete removal of the current regime.
9. The people are held down by a repressive regime.
10. He spent five years in prison for his opposition to the regime.
11. The regime is now in its death throes.
12. He has a new fitness regime to strengthen his back.
13. The continued abuse of human rights has now led the United States to impose sanctions against the regime.
14. Our results demonstrate that different types of authoritarian regime face different propensities to develop toward democracy.
15. The authorities moved him to the less rigid regime of an open prison.
16. But what is the best regime?
17. The regime was able to skim off about $10 billion in illegal revenue.
18. For many years, the country had been buried under the apparatus of the regime.
19. The regime is profoundly divided against itself.
20. Amongst the population at large the support for the present regime is virtually zero.
21. He refused requests to play the cello suites in many countries that recognised the regime.
22. The regime was the very incarnation of evil.
23. Not all indigenous regimes were willing to accept the supposed benefits of British trade.
24. The new regime has no successful economic reforms on which to build.
25. He used his diary to put a fine gloss on the horrors the regime perpetrated.
26. The paper was actually twice banned under the martial regime.
27. The regime at Latchmere could be seen as a soft option.
28. The move was widely seen as an attempt to appease critics of the regime.
29. There are still a few isolated pockets of resistance to the new regime.
30. The UK has refused to recognize the new regime.
31. The military regime in power was unpopular and repressive.
32. The overthrow of the military regime was followed by a period of anarchy.
33. The military regime has not loosened its hold on power.
34. He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
35. The Church became increasingly identified with opposition to the regime.
36. The weakness of his regime is showing more and more.
37. Most of the regime's left-wing opponents were eliminated.
38. Purposeful work is an important part of the regime for young offenders.
39. The coup brought his corrupt regime to an end.
40. Even passive acceptance of the regime was a kind of collaboration.
41. The group celebrated the regime's rise to power in 1979.
42. The present regime has been in power for two years.
43. Our tax regime is one of the most favourable in Europe.
44. Few people dared to declare their opposition to the regime.