Sentence examples for regime preparing from inspiring English sources

IS THE world's most secretive regime preparing to loosen up or crack up?

Last September, when monks and ordinary Burmese took to the streets of Rangoon to call for change, the regime, preparing to crush the peaceful demonstrations, tried to cut off phone and Internet access to the outside world.

He has been getting in bed with figures of the old regime, preparing a horrible draft constitution and now proclaiming himself a pharaoh.

A regime prepared to execute citizenry in its first days cannot but be viewed with alarm and considered as murderous.

"We can tell you beyond any reasonable doubt that our evidence proves the Assad regime prepared for this attack, warned its forces to use gas masks," Mr. Kerry said, referring to the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

The presidency was turned over to General Edelmiro J. Farrell (1944 46), who led a military junta, but, under threat of international sanctions, his regime prepared for a return to representative democracy.

While noting its excesses, which he blames on Mao's personal faults as "a callous, self-absorbed, immoral human being", Hutton maintains that Mao's regime prepared the ground for the next phase of China's development.

Why would a regime prepared to inflict this on its own people stop at burning up the neighbourhood in a "sea of fire", a favourite cliché from North Korea's shrill propaganda machine?Bruce Cumings has no sympathy for what the regime has done, but plenty for why it has supposedly done it.

It came on the heels of a violent week in Aleppo, during which nearly 400 people have been killed and hundreds more injured, as forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad's regime prepare a ground offensive to reclaim the opposition-held east of the city.

With so many important questions to ask (How had it felt to achieve such a high-profile victory? How had Bouchard's training regime prepared her for the tough match in soaring temperatures?), the interviewer naturally had to use her time wisely.

And now comes a six-week period of administrative limbo - another new experience for Nigeria - as the old regime prepares to empty its desks, and a new team is formed.