Sentence examples for aimed at regime from inspiring English sources

"That intervention was aimed at regime change.

But, he said, "if they are military or paramilitary covert actions, and aimed at regime change, I think that should be put aside.

Primakov also set the Russian tone of denouncing the 2011 Arab spring as a western plot aimed at regime change that must be opposed.

He was one of the main architects of the Nato bombardment of Libya, which aimed at regime change and resulted in anarchy in Libya, as well as destabilisation throughout North Africa.

Dagan reviewed Israel's five-pillar strategy concerning Iran's nuclear program, stressed that Iran is economically vulnerable, and pressed for more activity with Iran's minority groups aimed at regime change.

"There is no direct parallel with 2003, given that the United States at that time had to prove the existence of weapons of mass destruction in a country where we were going to do a military intervention aimed at regime change," Mr. Rhodes said.

Were sanctions aimed at disarmament, regime change or containment – whatever that meant?

Western diplomats in Damascus said broader sanctions were in the pipeline that could include a blanket ban on all EU investment in Syria and further measures aimed at the regime's business backers.

But it should mean ending pointless rhetoric and military stunts aimed at threatening "regime change" or "decapitation" of North Korea's leadership.

He said that attacks had been launched against "selected targets" aimed at undermining the regime's ability to defend itself.

The Bush speech, on its face, appeared to be laying the groundwork for a war aimed at toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein and thereby completing a job that the President's father had left unfinished.