Dictatorial and repressive regimes, exposed to the light, were crumbling.

Hosni and his son Gamal exiting the scene does not signify that Egypt's regime has crumbled.

First, it seems to have created an expectation that all totalitarian regimes were hollow at the core and would crumble with a small push from outside.

As the regime crumbles, we can expect other countries to move up the crisis list, each bringing fresh opportunities for pre-emptive military action.

Humiliated on live TV, his evil regime quickly crumbled but he still had one last trick.

Their calamitous behavior is used by the director as a metaphor for the upheaval that Italy would soon face as Mussolini's regime crumbled.

Since then the rest of the world has watched, fascinated, as oppressive regimes have crumbled under popular pressure.

Communist regimes and Stalin's statues were crumbling.

This odd order amounted to another signal that the regime was crumbling from within as well as from without.

In 1989, as the Communist regime crumbled, the legislature approved a thorough constitutional revision that ushered in a civil democratic form of government.