The strong patrician regime, consisting of no more than 60 families, filled all of the influential positions in the city and dominated all political, social, economic and cultural arenas of Fribourg.

A Communist regime, though, dominates the eastern half of the island; it also controls all of the United States east of the Mississippi.

The regime will have new power to bully and dominate and conquer its neighbors, condemning the Middle East to more years of bloodshed and fear.

Piłsudski's colonels, or the colonels' regime (in Polish called simply "the colonels"), dominated the government of the Second Polish Republic from 1926 to 1939.

Nevertheless, the "colonels' regime" and Sanation still dominated the Polish government in 1935-39 until the German invasion of Poland.

One is that journalists, instead of merely being harassed by lawsuits brought under libel laws overly protective of authority, are being physically intimidated to an extent not seen since the days when military regimes dominated the region.

The backdrop is a 22nd century in which the Chinese Communist regime dominates the world.

In March 1963 a military coup installed a secular, Baath socialist regime dominated by minority sects.

The Italian Fascist regime had politically and economically penetrated and dominated Albania during Zog's rule and was planning for annexation of Albania years prior to the event.

Two regimes have dominated Egypt in the past two centuries: the monarchal dynasty of Muhammad Ali, who rose from the post-Napoleonic chaos in 1805; and the Free Officers Movement, led, in 1952, by Gamal Abdel Nasser.