Sentence examples for off the regime from inspiring English sources

Last week troops fired on demonstrators, but the people fought back, and the lid blew off the regime.

After throwing off the regime of the colonels and restoring democracy, Greece applied to join the European Community in 1975.

"Even after the phones went off" — the regime shut down cell-phone and Internet service for several days — "there was a kind of national telepathy of where to go".

"Even after the phones went off"—the regime shut down cell-phone and Internet service for several days—"there was a kind of national telepathy of where to go".

Mr Assad has also created a shadowy new militia known as the National Defence Force, some of whose members are reportedly being sent for training in Iran.The opposition's backers have recently concentrated on the south, where rebels have been trying to pave a way to the capital by cutting off the regime from its military bases near Syria's borders with Israel and Jordan.

Zhu Feng, professor of the School of International Studies at Peking University, told a symposium in Seoul in April that, though Mr Kim appears in control for now, a combination of his poor health, soaring inflation and a succession crisis could finish off the regime.

And it might be some time before they actually finish off the remnants of the regime.

Secondly, we are seeing relatively large numbers of people casting off their fear of the regime.

Radio and television communication towers may be brought down to cut off the flow of the regime's propaganda.

Yet two more elements are necessary before it departs the stage: a political subject prepared to take power; and a catalyst, a spark, that will kick off the disintegration of the regime.

After a face-off, the regime in 1994 signed a framework agreement with the United States that froze (and should eventually dismantle) its plutonium production in return for a promise of two western-designed, less proliferation-prone reactors and interim supplies of heavy fuel oil.