Examples of 'authoritarian' in a sentence

Meaning of "authoritarian"

authoritarian (adjective): describing a form of government or management style characterized by strict obedience to authority and lack of individual freedom or autonomy
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  • Of, or relating to, or exhibiting strict obedience to an authority; favoring authoritarianism over civic and individual liberties.
  • Demanding obedience to authority; marked by authoritarianism; dictatorial, tyrannical.
  • Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority.
  • One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority.

How to use "authoritarian" in a sentence

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The first victims of an authoritarian security regime.
Authoritarian rule is no answer to poverty or environmental degradation.
The cultural tradition was authoritarian and paternalistic.
The authoritarian regime is becoming a naked dictatorship.
But when the most authoritarian governments.
Authoritarian parents discipline through physical punishment.
All three countries had authoritarian governments.
He was authoritarian and violent towards his children.
The political system is as authoritarian as it has always been.
The authoritarian escalation has just begun.
Such is the foundation authoritarian regimes are built on.
His authoritarian rule was characterized by contradictory trends.
Others see her as authoritarian and egotistical.
Its authoritarian leaders repressed political dissent.
Currency depicts only authoritarian political figures.

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Authoritarian tendencies and the monitoring of education.
Differentiate between authoritarian and authoritative discipline.
Authoritarian rule has been much more common.
Him look even more authoritarian to citizens.
Allowing authoritarian governments to perform retrospective surveillance.
Parliament should not adopt an authoritarian attitude.
Hierarchical or authoritarian models are unlikely to commend themselves.
The entire operation was too authoritarian for me.
I have been authoritarian and it irritates you.
Fragility of democratic rights in a tradition of authoritarian power.
He ruled in the authoritarian fashion of his forebears.
We are witnesses of the enforced departure of authoritarian rulers.
The data for authoritarian countries are unreliable.
The new brazilian regime is an authoritarian democracy.
Which is an authoritarian opposed to democracy and liberalism.
Moreover all of them were subject to authoritarian rule.
While no two authoritarian leaders are the same.
Vozhdism is widespread in totalitarian and authoritarian régimes.
The authoritarian crisis regime does not represent us.
But nothing is more authoritarian than a revolution.
An authoritarian government takes power and control.
Monarchiens politics were more authoritarian and hierarchical.
Give the authoritarian fast moving humanitarian.
For example paternalism and authoritarian education.
This very authoritarian policeman comes along.
Sitaram runs his family in an authoritarian manner.
The benign authoritarian scenario could be continued.
In general congruent with a centralized authoritarian structure.
He is often authoritarian and has difficulty delegating.
She appears to be a prime example of an authoritarian personality.
The authoritarian state is the guarantor of order.
This came after decades of authoritarian rule.
Authoritarian nationalism potentially has such appeal.
The government appears to be authoritarian and dystopian.
Authoritarian styles work well in some settings.

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