Robert Mugabe, whose regime was increasingly dependent on Chinese aid.
Sihanouk was a deeply flawed leader whose regime was rife with corruption and intolerant of dissent.
Classical, medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Victor Emmanuel imperial and then Mussolini, whose regime literally rebuilt the past in its own image.
It seems quite suitable for North Korea, whose regime, far from being suicidal, is obsessed with survival.
What then will stop any country invading any other country whose regime it mistrusts, or whose resources it covets?
Trump and Putin, whose regime is implicated in the murder of journalists, shared a chuckle about conflict with the media.
Interviewees included the Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, under whose regime hundreds of political prisoners died.
So it was deflating to hear again that Saddam is a monster whose regime tortures children in front of parents.
President Benjamin Mkapa, whose regime did the deal, was succeeded in 2004 by his political colleague Jakaya Kikwete.
Radiohead parted company with EMI after the arrival of Mr Hands, whose regime the lead singer Thom Yorke compared to a "confused bull in a china shop".
In 224 the ancient Persian empire had passed into the hands of a new dynasty, the Sāsānians, whose regime brought new life to the enfeebled state.
