Sentence examples for british regime from inspiring English sources

Initially, Gandhi's campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime.

Widely publicized, it contributed to the unpopularity of the British regime in much of North America in the years before the American Revolution.

Eventually, however, they turned their focus to bucking the British regime altogether, a goal that was attained in the years directly after World War II.

Moves afoot deep in Brussels, for example, to extend the British regime under which agricultural goods from West Bank Jewish settlements have to be properly labelled in supermarkets have yet to be completed.

Under the British regime (1885 1947), most Kachin territory was specially administered as a frontier region, but most of the area inhabited by the Kachin became after Burmese independence a distinct semiautonomous unit within the country.

(Dargis) 'V FOR VENDETTA' (R, 131 minutes) James McTeigue directs this D-for-dumb future-shock story about a masked avenger (Hugo Weaving) and his pipsqueak sidekick (Natalie Portman) at war against a totalitarian British regime.

"I don't think we need to do justify them because the American and British regimes have caused the instability in Muslim countries.

No-one with any knowledge of Egypt can forget that it was a coalition of such officers that came together in the post-war Free Officers Movement that overthrew King Farouk I and led to the toppling of a succession of pro-British regimes.

Something happened in this case between the former Libyan regime and the British government to end this dispute.

Even the British government changed the tax regime in the North Sea at the beginning of the year, increasing its taxes by 10 percentage points, to a total of 50percentt.

Speaking as Parliament was recalled to discuss the situation in Syria, he said the British government was "not considering regime change", but that standing "idly by would set a very dangerous precedent".