Sentence examples for regime considered from inspiring English sources

"The regime considered almost every grown man who was not on their side to be a wanted man," he said.

Other banned composers gave offense with lurid subject matter or musical innovations that the regime considered decadent.

"Either the regime considered it safe to let her go or they felt they could not further extend her sentence," I was told by another Western diplomat.

His activities included trying to relaunch the painters' union, organising and taking part in illegal May Day celebrations, publishing a journal and other activities the Iranian regime considered to have "endangered national security".

The Suharto regime considered the film such an effective exercise in propaganda that it mandated annual showings in schools and on TVRI, the state television channel, from shortly after the film's release, in 1984, until the regime's collapse, in 1998.

This apparent lack of real discontent over the restrictions on our freedoms meant that when the revolutions across North Africa and the Middle East began in January, the Syrian regime considered itself immune to them.

My girlfriend thought that that was silly and that I was being a wimp for going along with the maternal regime, considering that we lived together in New York.

Damascus was once home to dozens of first-run theatres, but, because moviegoing draws people together in a communal experience, the Baathist regime considers it a dangerous habit.

The committee will be required to look at the current level of donations, contributions and campaign expenditure, examine the disclosure regime, consider whether the disclosure rules are timely enough, and canvas "alternative approaches available to parliament".

Khartoum considers the inflated numbers to be evidence that all groups that deliver aid to Darfur are actually adjuncts of the activist groups that the regime considers its enemies, and thus finds justification for delaying visas, refusing to allow shipments of supplies and otherwise putting obstacles in the way of aid delivery.

To maintain a kingdom of lies is to live in perpetual fear of being exposed, and the Pyongyang regime considers its insularity its proudest accomplishment, the key to its survival, and proof, as Kim Jong Il has said, that "we have nothing to envy the rest of the world".