The phrase "impose regime" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the establishment or enforcement of a particular system or authority, often in political or social discussions.
Example: "The government decided to impose regime changes to stabilize the country after the crisis."
Alternatives: "establish authority" or "enforce governance."
Several leading government members accused creditors on Thursday of attempting to impose regime change in Athens by pushing the government too far from its electoral mandate of ending austerity.
As I said when the United States joined an international coalition to intervene, we cannot prevent every injustice perpetrated by a regime against its people, and we have learned from our experience in Iraq just how costly and difficult it is to try to impose regime change by force -– no matter how well-intentioned it may be.
Despite an increasingly thunderous chorus of complaints that Zimbabwe's presidential runoff election will be neither free nor fair, the African National Congress, South Africa's governing party, rejected outside diplomatic intervention on Tuesday, arguing that "any attempts by outside players to impose regime change will merely deepen the crisis".
Despite furious opposition from Zanu-PF's leaders, who claimed that it was all a Western-backed plot to rig the elections and impose "regime change", the negotiators have been told to draw up a final road map, along with timetables, ready for adoption at SADC's next summit, in August.It is far from certain that Mr Mugabe will ever accept such a document, let alone stick to its conditions.
Since then, the U.S. and its allies have perpetrated similar disasters in Libya, Syria and elsewhere, as they've continued to impose regime change on select Middle Eastern countries they hope to control.
It is a shame that the US has fallen back into the bad habit of seeking to impose regimes (Iraq, Palestine).
There may, in this new digital world of symbolic gestures and futilities, be no imposed regime that fits every bill.
In the west it is easy to pillory Russia for rejecting internationally imposed regime change by saying Vladimir Putin fears a "colour revolution" in Russia (even though there is no such prospect).
The Kremlin would like him to stay — and, particularly after watching the catastrophic overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi, in Libya, certainly prefers that outcome to anything that resembles externally imposed regime change — but he could just as easily be sacrificed.
The regional organization — comprising China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — took a strong position against externally imposed regime change in the Middle East, admitted Afghanistan as a new observer and announced steps to broaden its agenda into the next decade.
That's why the MPs' letter can solemnly claim that a legally imposed regime of regulation – the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) was really a front job for the industry, not a regulator – would be a return to the kind of press licensing abolished in 1695, though the punitive stamp duty on newspapers ( a "tax on knowledge": ho, ho) was actually only lifted in 1855.
