Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.

The regime was so austere that Bernard became ill, and only the influence of his friend William of Champeaux and the authority of the general chapter could make him mitigate the austerities.

Born into a working-class family, from an early age Ortega developed a hatred of the ruling President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was widely recognized as a dictator, and became involved in the underground movement to oppose Somoza's regime.

After the proclamation of the Empire in 1804, David became the official court painter of the regime.

The NSBO was completely suppressed and the DAF became little more than an arm of the state for the more efficient deployment and disciplining of labour to serve the needs of the regime, particularly its massive expansion of the arms industry.

The idea of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in middle of the 18th century, thanks to works such as Montesquieu's De L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and Henri de Boulainvilliers ’ s Histoire des anciens Parlements de France ( 1737 ; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739 ).

A military junta, the Comité Militaire de Redressement Nationale, was installed, which started to feud within itself, and quickly, as had occurred under the Touré regime, the paramount national security concern became the preservation of the president's power.

After intensive campaign the project became widely hated as a symbol of the old communist regime.

However, their numbers grew as the Vichy regime resorted to more strident policies in order to fulfill the enormous demands of the Nazis and the eventual decline of Nazi Germany became more obvious.

The main objective of the regime became the extrication of the country from the war with as little additional damage as possible.

As Islamists took up arms to overthrow the regime, the FIS's leaders were arrested and it became overshadowed by Islamist guerilla groups particularly the Islamic Salvation Army, MIA and Armed Islamic Group ( or GIA ).

The USSR continued to maintain diplomatic relations with Chiang's KMT regime until 1949 when it became clear Mao would win.

After 1940, Hitler made few public appearances, and even his broadcasts became less frequent, so Goebbels increasingly became the face and the voice of the Nazi regime for the German people.

" Goebbels became the public voice of the Nazi regime, both in his regular broadcasts and his weekly editorials in Das Reich.

After the 1949 foundation of the People ’ s Republic of China, trading conditions for foreign companies under the new Communist regime became increasingly difficult.

Once regarded as the world's " most optimistic ," Kibaki's regime quickly lost much of its power because it became too closely linked with the discredited Moi forces.

He lost his ' faith ' in his twenties and became an active critic and opponent of the Soviet regime.

In 1945, he became a Dramaturg at the Bavarian State Opera and there, as one of the few internationally-recognized figures who had survived untainted by any collaboration with the Nazi regime, he became a vital figure in the rebuilding of ( West ) German musical life.

It soon became known as " Our Life: Symphonic Fragment " ( Unser Leben: Symphonisches Fragment ) and was intended as a comment on the generally miserable conditions for artists and liberal minded individuals under the early Nazi regime.

The Khmer Rouge regime became notorious for the mass genocide of the Cambodian population.

With the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, relations between the United States and the Sandinista regime became an active front in the Cold War.

He plunged into writing, speaking and lobbying the US Congress and European governments against Augusto Pinochet's regime, and soon became the leading voice of the Chilean resistance, preventing several loans ( especially from Europe ) from being awarded to the military government.

During the Nazi regime, the memory of Henry I became a sort of cult, as Heinrich Himmler saw himself as the reincarnation of the " most German of all German " rulers.

In recent years, however, particularly when the authoritarian regime of Augusto Pinochet is taken into consideration, some scholars have reevaluated the Parliamentary Republic of 1891 – 1925.

* 1989 – After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist authoritarian regime.

Social, political, and economic upheaval in the wake of the conflict led to the Second World War, in which the Allies were defeated in the Battle of France and the French government surrendered and was replaced with an authoritarian regime.

With Conté as president, the CMRN set about dismantling Touré's oppressive regime, abolishing the authoritarian constitution, dissolving the sole political party and its mass youth and women's organizations, and announcing the establishment of the Second Republic.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

Yet in 1820, weakened by illness and with a decreasing support for his authoritarian regime, he killed himself with a silver bullet rather than face a coup d ' état.

Piłsudski was supported by several leftist factions, who ensured the success of his coup by blocking during the fighting the railway transportation of government forces, but the authoritarian " Sanation " regime that he was to lead for the rest of his life and that stayed in power until World War II, was neither leftist, nor overtly fascist.

Mauritanian lawmaker, Mohammed Al Mukhtar, announced that " many of the country's people were supporting the takeover attempt and the government is " an authoritarian regime " and that the president had " marginalized the majority in parliament.

After independence, President Moktar Ould Daddah, originally installed by the French, formalized Mauritania into a one-party state in 1964 with a new constitution, which set up an authoritarian presidential regime.

Mauritanian lawmaker, Mohammed Al Mukhtar, announced that " many of the country's people were supporting the takeover attempt and the government is " an authoritarian regime " and that the president had " marginalized the majority in parliament.

Economist Intelligence Unit, while admitting that “ there is no consensus on how to measure democracy ” and that “ definitions of democracy are contested ”, lists North Korea in last place as the most authoritarian regime in its index of democracy assessing 167 countries.

Not only did he make Prussia the most powerful and dominant component of the new Germany, but also he ensured that Prussia would remain an authoritarian state, rather than a liberal parliamentary regime.

Its main purpose was to offer a wider group of citizens an alternative way of opposition against the authoritarian communist regime by means of a peaceful protest that used absurd and nonsensical elements.

" This would mean that the sexual revolution, counterculture, youth rebellion and so on never developed during that decade in Spain's conservative Roman Catholic culture and under Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime.

No political parties or national elections are permitted and according to The Economist's 2010 Democracy Index, the Saudi government is the seventh most authoritarian regime from among the 167 countries rated.

Politics in the Syrian Arab Republic takes place in the framework of what is officially a semi-presidential republic, but what the CIA consider " a republic under an authoritarian regime " where the power is in the hands of the President of Syria and his family, all members of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party which is a cell of the Syrian-led Ba ' ath Party ( established in 1966 when the original Ba ' ath Party was dissolved and split into two ).

The term ' an authoritarian regime ' denotes a state in which the single power holder-an individual ' dictator ', a committee or a junta or an otherwise small group of political elite-monopolizes political power.

No foreign affairs controversy tested Taft's statesmanship and commitment to peace more than the uprising in Mexico against the authoritarian regime of the aging Porfirio Diaz, which had attracted billions in capital investment for economic development, much of it from the U. S. Anti-regime ( and anti-American ) riots began in 1910 and were reported by Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson to Knox, who failed to pass the information on to the President.

The province was also subject to the authoritarian Estado Novo regime that ruled Portugal from 1933 to 1974, till the military coup at Lisbon, known as the Carnation Revolution.

Raeder wanted to see the replacement of democracy with an authoritarian, militaristic regime that in Raeder's analogy ensure that Germany would become " one family " united behind the same goals of world power, or as Raeder put it in 1932 Germany needed a " unified Volk " led by one strong leader to win the next war.

For a while the Republic was governed democratically, though the coup d ' état of 1801 put an authoritarian regime in power, after another change in constitution.

This perceived obduracy led to the eventual demise of the Republic when the short-lived experiment with the ( again authoritarian ) regime of " Grand Pensionary " Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck produced insufficient docility in the eyes of Napoleon.

Due to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War that went disastrously for the Dutch, the Patriot party staged a revolt against the authoritarian regime of stadtholder William V that was struck down through the intervention of William's brother-in-law Frederick William II of Prussia in June 1787.

Until about 1861, Napoleon's regime exhibited decidedly authoritarian characteristics, using press censorship to prevent the spread of opposition, manipulating elections, and depriving the Parliament of the right to free debate or any real power.