Sentence examples for rather than regime from inspiring English sources

Although Chairman Kim Jong Il and his Communist regime are part of President Bush's axis of evil, Washington has opted to pursue regime transformation rather than regime change.

If, as initially in Libya, we had made our aim humanitarian rather than regime change, then success in the first would have led to the second – as with Gaddafi.

For the moment the opposition calls for reform rather than regime change, but the signs are becoming clear that Abdullah has failed to understand the new pressures unleashed by the Arab awakening.

We also conclude that, in contrast with theoretical predictions, up-scaling the niche suffers from regime instability rather than regime stability, as there is a need to give more security to investors and end-users.

In an attempt to win over reluctant MPs from his party, Labor leader Ed Miliband insisted that this was not a repeat of 2003 and was aimed at supporting a democratic state rather than regime change.

Following Kreiger, Milanović's suggestion is to assess which rule constitutes the lex specialis by looking at the relationship between specific norms, rather than regimes as a whole (Milanović 2011, citing Kreiger 2006).

Amazingly now we're even backing (without admitting it) the Assad regime in Syria, perhaps the world's single worst government, which has killed 200,000 Syrians, as we continue to define the Middle East's "problem" as ISIS and "terrorism" rather than regimes like Assad's that commit mass murder and inspire lunatic resistance movements.

We cannot get a country to change its ways through sanctioning, as the sanctions typically impact the lives of ordinary citizens rather than the regime in these types of authoritarian regimes.

For Syria as a nation – rather than a regime – there is sympathy as well as respect in the Arab world.

Not necessarily, since such military action would be in support of the Syrian state rather than the regime.

But this being South Korea, opposition politicians are busy attacking the president, Lee Myung-bak, rather than the regime which killed four of their countrymen last week.