Sentence examples for confident regime from inspiring English sources

This does not portray a confident regime.

A confident regime will not need to intimidate, harass and threaten the opposition, block all its means of communications, and imprison all its independent journalists, writers, students and intellectuals to keep them quiet.

A confident regime will not issue eight-year prison terms for its leading opposition figures to keep them away from the political scene for the duration of two elections.

A self-confident regime would have killed unapologetically.

In a suggestion that the violence may continue, Assad said unrest had become more militant, but that he was confident the regime could deal with it.

It was this confidence and belief -- call it the legitimacy of the autocratic system -- that explains how Alexander could be fairly confident his regime would survive even after abandoning Moscow.

It was thus necessary last week to make a pilgrimage to the Starship Galactica foreign ministry in Damascus to listen to Dr Faisal Mekdad – he is a medical doctor as well as deputy foreign minister – to find out just how confident the regime claims to be.

There are indications, however, that the confident-sounding regime may have an Achilles' heel that could undermine its hold on the loyalty of those who still support it: food.

But more importantly, a confident and unified regime is better positioned to reach consensus on some initial agreement".

I recall leaving the meeting feeling that Aziz was still confident that his regime would somehow prevail in the coming confrontation, as it always had in the past.

"I'm quite confident that this regime is one that will last for a long time," said George Frampton, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House agency.