noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a totalitarian state/regime
an exercise programme/routine/regimeBritish English, an exercise program American English (= a plan that includes different types of exercise)
▪ The athletes follow an intensive exercise programme.
▪ I’m finding it quite hard to stick to my exercise routine.
communist regime
▪ a communist regime
puppet government/regime/state (=a government etc controlled by a more powerful country or organization)
regime change
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
authoritarian
▪ There had been some authoritarian regimes that were also populist and had been sustained by votes not repressive force.
▪ A thorough comparison of authoritarian regimes.
▪ It may be easier for an authoritarian regime than for a democratic one to carry out economic restructuring.
▪ It connoted a rational, efficient method of organization-something to take the place of the arbitrary exercise of power by authoritarian regimes.
▪ The temptation simply to continue with presidential rule would be enormous and another authoritarian regime would be born.
▪ In this sense, most authoritarian or totalitarian regimes are nonconstitutional.
▪ An alliance between workers, peasants and petty bourgeoisie necessitates a bureaucratic authoritarian regime. 2.
▪ Citizens are not permitted to question the political institutions, procedures, or value allocations of an authoritarian regime.
brutal
▪ But in the process, said his opponents, his brutal Ofsted regime drove teachers out of the profession.
▪ Is it not time that the Government stopped selling arms to a country with such a brutal regime?
corrupt
▪ Well, partly because the corrupt Marcos regime mismanaged the industry.
democratic
▪ The new democratic regime has carried out very few investigations into war crimes.
▪ There were no guarantees that the wealthy, stable, democratic regime of later years would emerge.
▪ And governing any kind of democratic or nondemocratic regime means you have to be tough.
different
▪ It would be possible to have different patent regimes in different parts of the world.
▪ Thus, the war was not a no-man's-land between, and distinct from, two different regimes.
▪ Comparing the absolute number of patents filed between countries is difficult because of different national patent regimes.
▪ He thought of Andrei Gromyko, the great survivor of the different regimes that had followed the revolution.
▪ The different media regimes, moreover, do have social effects.
▪ In a letter to Companies House, the Institute points out that the different filing regimes would complicate matters.
▪ Moreover, the analysis of this chapter suggests that efficiency is likely to differ under different regulatory regimes.
▪ We have a different regime from the other 11 member states, one which is more competitive.
military
▪ There is still concern that a military regime would be reluctant to prosecute its own kind.
▪ Finally, after deliberation, it was decided to initiate the Peace Corps program despite misgivings about working under a military regime.
▪ Human-rights groups may carp at foreigners for dealing with an unpleasant military regime.
▪ The peaceful transition to democracy depends mainly on the military regime.
▪ When Mr Cerezo, before his election, stood up against successive military regimes the rightists tried to kill him.
▪ Each of the half-dozen military regimes since then has eventually foundered on the strength of the miners.
▪ Those efforts were effectively buried by new evidence of the atrocities committed under the military regime between 1973 and 1990.
new
▪ Thus their dubious loyalty to the new regime was eroded even further.
▪ Indeed, the new regime has refocused Conde Nast, once notorious for its excesses, firmly on the bottom line.
▪ You probably do stick to your new regime for a short while.
▪ The new regime is for three years.
▪ Under the new regime, companies will be liable for automatic penalties for late filing.
▪ Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime, a new diet.
▪ We strongly recommend that you spend a week, or preferably two, preparing for your new regime.
▪ She envisaged a totally new recreational regime when Livingstone moved in.
old
▪ She has defended the Mulroney government, whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime.
▪ My dad was of the old regime.
▪ But this fit of morality hardly survived their short-lived victory over the old regime.
▪ The economic and political leaders of the old regimes would be thrown out, along with religious leaders and editors.
▪ The Dome was Ceausescu-land, a monument shoring up the fantasies of an old regime.
▪ Under the old regime at least you knew who the enemy was.
▪ The line between party and state was washed away under the old regime and has not been redrawn.
▪ Some east Berlin enterprises, though grotesquely overmanned under the old regime, have good technology and promising futures.
oppressive
▪ Throughout 1815 MiloÜ maintained that his quarrel was with the oppressive regime of Süleiman Pasha and not with the sultan.
▪ The public has reacted in this way because they felt a great relief at the overthrow of an oppressive and unpopular regime.
▪ Tired of this paternalistic and oppressive regime, Beida students aired their complaints over several evenings in mid-December.
political
▪ In such ways Augustus changed his image to match the changing political regime over which he presided.
▪ Part Five of this book will reveal that many contemporary political regimes are powerfully influenced by classical liberalism.
▪ If Mr Milosevic succeeds, he could extend again his political regime.
▪ All political regimes attempt to manipulate information as a means of social control.
▪ The same is true in cases where coins have ceased to be legal tender because of a change of political regime.
▪ Of course, some of the most powerful political regimes are masterful at using both illusion and coercion.
▪ The consequences of war for political regimes are thus quite diverse.
▪ All other countries, whatever their political regimes, try to copy and equal it.
previous
▪ He also vetoed a Congressional investigation into corruption under the previous regime.
▪ The alumni don't want to hear it, but the previous coaching regime vastly oversold the goods.
▪ He has a moral stature which comes from being wholly untainted by the previous regime.
▪ The churches themselves began reorganizing their affairs, often removing those officials who had close contact with the previous regime.
▪ It sees them as little more than rural ghettoes designed by previous hated white regimes to keep blacks and whites apart.
▪ Gen. Oscar Botero, the Defence Minister under the previous regime, was retained in his post.
▪ That is what it would be paying under the previous regime of the last Labour Government.
▪ The nature of the privileges suggests the rigour of the previous regime, which was still slow to change in many unions.
regulatory
▪ One was a relatively liberal regulatory regime compared with other financial centres.
▪ Yet the regulatory regime he put in place is a meddlers' charter.
▪ Make no mistake, argues the broker, the regulatory regime for utilities will get tougher under the Conservatives.
▪ The regulatory regime does too little to protect cost-conscious customers.
▪ Moreover, the analysis of this chapter suggests that efficiency is likely to differ under different regulatory regimes.
▪ Mr. Redwood Overseas undertakings investing in the United Kingdom often comment favourably on our regulatory regime.
▪ It is clear that firms are taking the regulatory regime seriously; nearly all have taken steps to comply with audit regulations.
repressive
▪ When we live with war, under a repressive regime we can not close our eyes any more.
▪ Their story plays out amid the insane violence of a repressive political regime.
▪ Both the Sandinistas and Frelimo came to power after a liberation struggle against highly repressive regimes.
▪ In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.
▪ There is a new insistence on the illegitimacy of debts incurred by military dictatorships and other repressive regimes.
soviet
▪ It seemed to shout defiance towards the Soviet regime.
▪ He was probably the first prominent Western person to suggest that the Soviet regime had failed to obliterate religion within its domains.
▪ The longer-term one might be the Soviet regime itself.
▪ The implosion of the Soviet regimes and the ensuing collapse of state capitalism caused great suffering to women.
▪ Disseminating for the purpose of undermining or weakening the Soviet regime slanderous fabrications which defame the Soviet state and social system.
totalitarian
▪ In this sense, most authoritarian or totalitarian regimes are nonconstitutional.
▪ We have had the collapse of the totalitarian regimes.
▪ In a totalitarian regime, the definition of res publica becomes total.
▪ The classic study of the forces underlying totalitarian regimes.
▪ A case study of political transition in one of the major totalitarian regimes.
■ NOUN
tax
▪ While arguments about equity are important in overthrowing the Thatcher tax regime, they are not the only ones.
▪ This means fresh consideration of factors like tax regimes, property prices, travel convenience and even lifestyle.
▪ The best tax regime is one in which firms behave exactly as they would if there were no tax.
▪ This success has been achieved despite the discriminatory tax regimes which are plainly protectionist.
▪ Mr Bauman would collect £754,777 under Labour and £1,040,822 from the Tory tax regime.
▪ There has been speculation that Mr Brown may alter the North Sea tax regime.
▪ They will still be subject to the tax regime of the country in which they are listed.
▪ The current tax regime encouraged pensions, share options and subsidised meals, but discouraged company loans, cars and petrol.
■ VERB
overthrow
▪ While arguments about equity are important in overthrowing the Thatcher tax regime, they are not the only ones.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Baker was part of the Reagan regime.
▪ The military regime refused to recognize the elections.
▪ the region's military regime
▪ The US supported several right-wing regimes in central America.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But recently the regime seems to have lost the trust of the people.
▪ During the last weeks of 1688 James's regime began to disintegrate.
▪ His Gaullist successor, Jacques Chirac, publicly condemned Vichy as a criminal regime and called for reparations.
▪ It is time the regime proved how much it loves its country and how much courage it has in embracing change.
▪ The line between party and state was washed away under the old regime and has not been redrawn.
▪ The secretiveness of the regime and the often seemingly wilful disinformation provided by its opponents makes matters worse.
▪ There are at least four crucial differences between the new regime and the old.
▪ Within this, the regime was heavily dependent upon the civil administration.