According to China scholar Minxin Pei, one-party dictatorships have inherent flaws in their foundation that limit their existence beyond several decades, even in the case of the most enduring regimes.
A greater danger may come from those long-enduring regimes which claim that their autocratic rule is already democratic.
For the past few years, Venezuelans have organized massive protests against the regime, enduring tear gas, arrests and killings.
He pulled himself out of a presidential runoff vote last year that he claimed Fujimori had rigged and joined the opposition to Fujimori's autocratic regime, enduring smear campaigns, tear gas and death threats.
As if enduring the toughest training regime she has ever experienced was not hard enough, the world No 55 also refused to indulge her sweet tooth.
At the very bottom of Isis' hierarchy are the Syrians themselves, who having already suffered so much under the Syrian regime, are enduring the most hostile and cruel foreign occupation imaginable, under Isis' rule.
However, the 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers and the 2007 Karbala raid provide two powerful examples of the regime's enduring willingness to take aggressive (and perceivably risky) steps to pursue its political-security agenda.
That they were able to hang onto the goods for a quarter-century (the works aren't exactly miniatures) is a testament to the enduring embarrassment surrounding the regime — evidence that the art world would rather turn its back on the whole period.
Power shifted initially into the hands of a triumvirate of paladins – Himmler, the head of the police and SS and the chief architect of the apparatus of terror; Goebbels, in charge of Berlin and of nationwide propaganda and one of the enduring radicals of the regime; and the sinister figure of Martin Bormann, Hitler's gatekeeper and the architect of the party's return to real power.
Chávismo, like the Muslim Brotherhood, had among its strongest weapons several generations' worth of enduring resentment toward earlier regimes.
