Similar words: authoritative, authority, authorize, totalitarianism, sectarian, euphoria, historian, variance. Meaning: n. a person who behaves in an tyrannical manner. adj. 1. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty 2. likened to a dictator in severity 3. expecting unquestioning obedience.
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31. The Emergency of 1975-77 was an attempt to overcome instability in a decisive and authoritarian manner.
32. It connoted a rational, efficient method of organization-something to take the place of the arbitrary exercise of power by authoritarian regimes.
33. An alliance between workers, peasants and petty bourgeoisie necessitates a bureaucratic authoritarian regime. 2.
34. She'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending, heartless, authoritarian attitude.
35. And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be.
36. President Collor's plan combines free marketeering and authoritarian intervention in a bewildering but roughly equal mix.
37. Utopias can also be classed according to their political framework: there are two extremes, authoritarian and libertarian Utopias. Sentencedict.com
38. They damned the no-nonsense, authoritarian government, which peremptorily squashed even the smallest perceived threat to social peace.
39. As Reich puts it: The reactionary middle-class man perceives himself in the Fuhrer, in the authoritarian state.
40. His real style, they believe, is authoritarian and his policies excessively sympathetic to the armed forces.
41. It was a radical departure from the past, an interlude of democracy in an otherwise unbroken line of authoritarian rule.
42. I told him how upsetting, and authoritarian, and ultimately how absurd, the whole experience had been.
43. Citizens are not permitted to question the political institutions, procedures, or value allocations of an authoritarian regime.
44. What is clear is that current constitutional arrangements do suit an authoritarian government well.
45. The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out.
46. Democratic regimes are constrained by the authoritarian and elitist state that ultimately controls the instruments of economic policy and coercion.
47. Authoritarian personalities have been found to display attitudes of hostility towards inferiors and to reject other authoritarian people because of attitudes about authority.
48. In the Health Service, authoritarian corporatist administration is a way of responding to system pressures for restricted public expenditure.
49. But the authoritarian mechanisms that guarded Soviet nuclear material can no longer be guaranteed.
50. It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude(sentencedict.com), or a loving and a permissive one.
51. It may be easier for an authoritarian regime than for a democratic one to carry out economic restructuring.
52. Their father was authoritarian in the home, insisting on total obedience.
53. For middle-class parents at least, however, a new power is taking his place: the equally authoritarian medical expert.
54. Many people are now demanding a more democratic and less authoritarian form of government.
55. In either case, the end result was the emergence or a strong centralized state under authoritarian rule.
56. Yet they headed governments with authoritarian features that were quite unacceptable.
57. That civil war has been the rationale for the authoritarian rule Suharto and the military have enforced over the decades.
58. In authoritarian media systems, the media might be privately owned but have only limited freedom to criticize government.
59. There had been some authoritarian regimes that were also populist and had been sustained by votes not repressive force.
60. These transitions are likely to differ from recent western transitions from other types of authoritarian rule in a number of key respects.
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