Sentence examples for regime represented from inspiring English sources

When I talked with Karen Hughes, I asked whether President Bush still feels that Saddam Hussein's regime represented enough of a threat to justify war.

His view of her rule as "a sort of Stalinist regime" represented total estrangement, and he was glad to be gone when she eventually sacked him in the post-election reshuffle of June 1987.

If the public believed that Assad's regime represented a real threat to the United States, or even to U.S. allies in the Middle East, there'd be plenty of support for bombing him and his cronies to oblivion.

More recently, however, as the justification that he gave first and most often before the war — that Saddam Hussein's regime represented a direct military threat to the United States, because of his nuclear-weapons program and his ties to Al Qaeda — has dematerialized, the President has rhetorically brought democracy to the fore.

Western diplomats said Thursday that the apparent crumbling of the Qaddafi regime represented a moral victory for the United Nations because its initial decision to authorize military action in Libya was viewed by some as a risky foreign intervention that could undermine the organization's credibility.

Rather, Ukraine experienced an act of civil disobedience, one large enough to prevent an election from being stolen by an incumbent regime represented by its then candidate, Viktor Yanukovich.Move on to 2010 and Mr Yanukovich was declared Ukraine's legitimately elected president after a run-off.

Recent reports of tentative progress in the development of a new joint "cyber-security" regime represent a significant case in point.

At the same time, American officials have made clear that Mr. Hussein's regime represents an unacceptable threat that must be removed, by force if necessary.

The actions of Burma's military regime represent a situation whereby climate change and its impacts on hunger are actively utilised for political gain.

President Bashar al-Assad and many of the senior figures in his regime belong to Syria's minority Alawite sect, but that does not mean Assad or his regime represent the Alawites.

He describes this training programme as "part-time", and points out that as none of his competitors is at school, his regime represents a mere 50% of their training schedule.