Sentence examples for regime powers from inspiring English sources

Like others from the revolutionary camp, she is concerned that former regime powers like Shafiq will capitalize on the momentum of current demonstrations and widespread hostility to Islamism in order to stage a political return.

Like others from the revolutionary camp, she is concerned that former regime powers like Shafiq will capitalise on the momentum of current demonstrations and widespread hostility to Islamism in order to stage a political return.

Erasing the symbols of regime power is what conquering armies have done for millennia.

The Brits hoped the locals, seeing a strike against a symbol of regime power, would rise up against Saddam.

In former dictator Ben Ali's regime, power resided in one party and wealth held by his family and cronies shored up that corrupt political oligarchy.

Touré, who seized from a military regime power in 1991, successfully returned the country to democracy and entered politics as a civilian.

It is a twist of history that this display of regime power coincided with widespread protests and dramatic changes across the Arab world.

Josh Stacher, the author of "Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria," notes on Twitter that the broad outlines of the new transition plan seem similar to the one announced by the generals in 2011, after Hosni Mubarak was forced from office.

But after war, years of occupation, many lives and hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq, we have not been able to create a stable regime, power sharing or an end to the political violence.

Rebel commanders complain that they lack the weaponry to launch a concerted assault on the bastions of regime power.

In the new Kabila regime, power remained in the hands of a few cronies who amassed wealth for themselves à la Mobutu.