Sentence examples for was not regime from inspiring English sources

As the second Iraq War loomed, he remarked that it was not "regime change" that George W. Bush wished to bring about, but "region change".

The stated aim of the sanctions was not regime change, but to press Syria to comply with the peace plan it had ostensibly accepted.

But since the President also made clear that his goal was not regime change, or "putting our troops in the middle of someone else's war," that wasn't going to be stopped anyway.

But while he said he kept reiterating this to his American counterparts – "I can't remember how many times I must have said … that our policy was not regime change" – they seemed to know better.

Hammond insisted that no one wanted to cause any more pain for the people of Iran and made clear that the aim was not regime change; it was merely to apply as much pressure as necessary to force Iran to drop its nuclear programme.

There is plenty of uncertainty in the economy but it's not regime uncertainty.

But he noted one difference with Mr. Bush: "Our objective is not regime change," he said.

"The policy of the administration is not regime change," Mr. Powell said.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has openly said that "our goal is not regime change" in North Korea.

Yesterday Alastair Campbell told the inquiry that Blair was not backing regime change when he met George Bush at Crawford in April 2002.

"Now they're with the regime, but it wasn't the regime who opened the doors of their homes to them".