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‘A regime can be clerical.’

[⟨det regime.n⟩ clerical.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

These very people are right now under brutal capitalist repression by the clerical regime in Iran and its henchmen in the pasdaran army and its embodiment in government in the shape of Mr Ahmadinejad.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Relations between the clerical regime in Iran and the largely secular PLO were not warm during the 1980s, and Iran began backing hardline Palestinian groups like Islamic Jihad only after its exclusion from the 1991 Madrid Conference and the onset of the Oslo peace process.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“A nuclear ready or nuclear – armed Islamic Republic ruled by the clerical regime could threaten the Persian Gulf region and its vast energy resources, spark nuclear proliferation throughout the Middle East, inject additional volatility into global energy markets, embolden extremists in the region and destabilise states such as Saudi Arabia and others in the region, provide nuclear technology to other radical regimes and terrorists (although Iran might hesitate to share traceable nuclear technology), and seek to make good on its threats to eradicate Israel.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If Saudi Arabia does get a clerical regime the people will struggle to throw it off, just as the Iranians are doing today.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It’s likely that an American attack on the clerical regime’s nuclear facilities would, within a short period of time, produce burning criticism of the ruling mullahs, as hot for them as it would be for us.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Right Arabists were hostile to Iranian nukes in the 1970s under the Shah and would likely continue to oppose Iranian nukes long after the fall of the incumbent clerical regime.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Right Arabists were hostile to Iranian nukes in the 1970s under the Shah and would likely continue to oppose Iranian nukes long after the fall of the incumbent clerical regime.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This 67 year old grandmother has been charged with being involved with a propaganda campaign to foment a’ ’ soft revolution’ ’ against the brutal clerical regime.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In the short term, Right Zionists can *n’t live with the incumbent clerical regime; in the long term they can *n’t live without non – Arab Iran.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Today, many experts believe the Iranians will eventually build nuclear weapons unless something is done to topple the clerical regime, alter its ambitions, or deny it the capacity.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Such a suppressive move has caused much hatred for the clerical regime among the local residents.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Today, many experts believe the Iranians will eventually build nuclear weapons unless something is done to topple the clerical regime, alter its ambitions, or deny it the capacity.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Considering the very risky stakes of his proposal, Gerecht also conveniently ignores the prospect of an Iranian retaliation which, after all, is quite probable after a massive bombing of its cities (especially if the’ ’ clerical regime’ ’ is half as irrational as Gerecht claims).
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The clerical fascist regime will probably use foreign – flagged cargo ships to fire Scud or Shahab – 3 missiles at US coastal cities.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So much for the’ ‘significant’’ presence of William Burns, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, who went to Geneva to show Tehran and the Europeans the United States’ willingness to have senior – level contacts with the clerical regime.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It is a crazily religious clerical fascist regime: its leaders are concerned more with their imaginary supernatural world than with this….
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Why be so picky about the precise method of uprooting the clerical regime?
(Parse)

In Wikipedia:

Catholic Action was particularly well suited to Italy where Catholic party political action was impractical firstly under the Anti – Clerical Savoyard regime from 1870 until about 1910 and later under the Fascist regime which prohibited independent political parties.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Pipes and other neoconservative – minded Iran commentators such as Patrick Clawson at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, harbor the belief that the MEK will be able to provide reams of intelligence and sow the seeds of anarchy and chaos that will precipitate the collapse of the clerical regime.
(Parse)

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Queried on 2013-05-21.