regime

In a sentence

Six example sentences with regime, each labelled with its topic.

• The new regime dissolved parliament, appointed provincial governors by decree, and postponed the election promised for autumn.

  Politics

• Trade with the island collapsed under the colonial regime, which taxed every cargo leaving the harbour at ruinous rates.

  History

• Foreign investors withdrew once the regime nationalised the banks, and the currency lost half its value in a month.

  Economics

• The novel's regime bans clocks, so citizens learn the hour from loudspeakers that lie whenever it suits the ministry.

  Literature

• The film follows a translator who serves the regime by day and smuggles its records to a reporter at night.

  Movies

• Plato ranked each regime in turn, from rule by the wise down to tyranny, and warned that one slides into the next.

  Philosophy

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