Most other liberal democracies have had more restrictive campaign finance regimes without instituting widespread regimes of censorship – and nearly 60% of Americans don't believe that donation caps violate our right to free speech.
Through these mechanisms lionfish may be contributing to widespread regime-shifts on Caribbean coral reefs by consuming herbivores responsible for controlling macroalgal production [5], [6], [8].
It was the first to break the country's biggest story this summer -- about the king issuing a royal pardon to a convicted Spanish pedophile (and the story eventually sparked widespread anti-regime protests).
"Under the previous regime, widespread patronage achieved a form of redistribution," Gueye explains.
Rafsanjani's reputation was damaged in the past decade by widespread allegations among regime and opposition supporters that he and his family were financially corrupt.
Despite its widespread acceptance, the regime concept has repeatedly been criticized for lacking a clear operationalization.
The objectives of the present greenhouse experiment were to quantify the effects of earthworms on grass legume competition in model grassland systems at two harvesting dates – simulating the widespread biannual mowing regime in Central European grasslands.
Given this evidence, one should easily have anticipated a period of widespread hostility after communist regimes and regimes artificially propped up by the Soviet Union collapsed.
Disaffection with the regime is widespread, undermined only by fear of the future and of the opposition's chaotic rivalries.
In its eagerness to modernize, the Ben Ali regime encouraged widespread access to satellite television and the Internet.
At his famous parties, Kozak constantly impressed upon his guests that Chile's global reputation was suffering because of the regime's widespread abuse of human rights.
