Sentence examples for breaking the regime from inspiring English sources

On the other, a student with nothing to lose, tired of the small-town oppression that has been his only lot, trained to understand that breaking the regime may involve absorbing its blows, convinced, as an Otpor sticker put it, that Serbia had reached a point of Sad ili Nikad -- Now or Never".

It was the dauntless action of millions of ordinary people in the streets, day after day, which broke the regime and brought the Berlin Wall down.

Because to get at Iraq's weapons of mass destruction we'll need to break the regime open, like a walnut, and then rebuild it.

Activists believe Assad may be trying to subdue Homs before a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, the leaders of the uprising have dismissed the referendum as an attempt at superficial reforms that do nothing to break the regime's hold on power.

For some, the tactic (an embargo) has become more important than the strategy (use American economic pressure to break the regime).

Economic conditions are worsening; should they reach breaking point the regime could well collapse.

Another video showed men in camouflage uniforms standing outside shops as gunshots echoed nearby; a description posted online said the men were "regime thugs" breaking the locks of shops to end the strike, a tactic that pro-government militias have used before.

"Keeping Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's regime from breaking the chemical weapons taboo is about more than just what happens in Syria: It's about maintaining the international norm against chemical warfare, about ensuring that present and future wars will not redeploy the awful chemical weapons that made the First World War so much worse than it would have otherwise been.

The SSNA, for one, broke with the regime after the arrest of its leader, and merged with another rebel outfit.

The hostility lasted long after he broke with the regime, took refuge in Paris and in 1953 published his celebrated indictment of totalitarianism, "The Captive Mind".

The massacre destroyed the tenuous bond between the Party and the intellectuals: some renounced their Party membership and broke with the regime; some went into exile or were jailed.