Sentence examples for an authoritarian point from inspiring English sources

"The authorities in Lagos seem to approach city planning from an authoritarian point of view – as if their desire for development transcends everything".

Kempe makes the valuable and sometimes ignored point that an authoritarian leader has to answer to critics at home and does not always have a free hand, though Khrushchev did feel free to offer a bouquet of early concessions to the Kennedy administration.

Jamaican parents who used an authoritative parenting style had adolescents who reported significantly lower BDI-II scores than their peers whose parents used a neglectful parenting style (7.6 points lower), as well as their counterparts whose parents used a authoritarian parenting style (7.4 points lower).

If the emergence of Yukos epitomised Russia's transition from a planned economy to the wild capitalism of the 1990s, which for all its excesses thrived on private initiative, its destruction was a turning-point towards an authoritarian, corporatist state.In this section After Yukos Down to the wire Concrete plans Hunter or hunted?

From the vantage point of Russia in 2014, an authoritarian country at war, the brief period of post-Soviet elation appears irrelevant.

It is about exercising command, to the point of being an authoritarian who takes no sass from players or managers; knowing the rules; and being certain of one's calls.

He needs to face down the wizened authoritarians, pointing out that a careful balancing of security and liberty is not the preserve of Hampstead liberals (to borrow Jack Straw's phrase).

So, in a sense, let's go back to government-controlled systems".' But knee-jerk repression, he argued, was the wrong reaction — even from the point of view of an authoritarian ruler intent on staying in charge.

Others point to the efficiency of an authoritarian state like China.

As the influential American think-tank, the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) points out, the intentions of an authoritarian regime can change very quickly.

But, at one point, he writes, "A faith practice without an authoritarian structure sooner or later becomes a hobby".