The regime was attempting to use them to repress the mass protests, but after a brief encounter they finally ended up joining the protests.

The Iranian regime followed a policy of total war from the beginning, and attempted to mobilise the nation as a whole.

The military regime also attempts to isolate ex-political prisoners from society, for example by denying them economic and educational opportunities.

The subsequent military-led regime, with Traoré as president, attempted to reform the economy.

An Iraqi regime faced with its own demise may attempt cruel and desperate measures.

Despite this good relationship, the regime also attempted to indoctrinate the population (especially the youth) with atheism.

Instead the regime attempted to promote what Cromwell called the "meaner sort", particularly urban elites and small landholders.

The regime attempted to impose narrow restrictions on the ability of the different classes and groups within society to organize and articulate their aspirations.

As in other countries, the regime in Romania attempted to create a schismatic Catholic Church.

Cuba's Stalinist regime, with its totalitarian ways, is attempting to damage relations between the EU and this region as a whole.