Much has been written about the Arab Spring, where Middle Eastern governments overthrew their rulingregimes.
The Sun (2012)
As the violence spread, the first cracks began to appear in the rulingregime.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The rulingregime claimed it was not a massacre of villagers but a military operation targeted at armed activists.
The Sun (2012)
Definition of 'regime'
regime
(reɪʒiːm)Explore 'regime' in the dictionary
countable noun
If you refer to a government or system of running a country as a regime, you are critical of it because you think it is not democratic and uses unacceptable methods.
[disapproval]
Definition of 'ruling'
ruling
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adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
The ruling group of people in a country or organization is the group that controls its affairs.