Sentence examples for a hard regime from inspiring English sources

Detainees have described to their lawyers in phone calls and letters a hard regime at the base, with confiscations of many basic items, like toothbrushes.

It was a hard regime but, looking back, all the players we saw cavorting on the terraces at Salford City on Friday night hold Harrison in the same reverence as they do Ferguson and clearly value the importance of a strong hierarchy that, if necessary, can put the frighteners on.

Even talk of exiting a hard regime in the middle of a crisis is like playing with dynamite.

"Magath gave his artists a framework in which they could let loose – with an idea of fast attacking football, with hungry and able players, with a hard training regime," wrote Tagesspiegel.

If you happen to be overweight, immediately jumping into a hard exercise regime can cause more harm than good.

Perhaps not the hard regime change of Tunisia and Egypt, but certainly a soft one.

Baron's is one of several hotels dotting the Middle East that seem to tell a story of how a region once viewed by foreigners as a playground has given way to a newer imagery of hard regimes and struggles to get by.

Moreover, the ready acceptance of the latest election results by the supreme leader himself is indication of potential flexibility in a hard-line regime.

There was the lingering danger that a hard-line regime might take power in Moscow and resume at least a mini-version of the cold war.

"Military action is increasingly unpopular and in many ways ineffective in a modern legitimacy-oriented world, and words don't work with hard regimes.

That is not the case for exits from hard regimes to soft regimes.