The phrase "authoritarian actions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe behaviors or measures taken by an authority that are oppressive or dictatorial in nature.
Example: "The government's authoritarian actions have sparked widespread protests among the citizens."
Alternatives: "oppressive measures" or "dictatorial practices".
The Gulen movement has been chosen as a scapegoat to justify the government's authoritarian actions".
Erdoğan's enduring popularity perplexes some western observers, who know him mainly for his increasingly authoritarian actions.
American farmers are struggling to feed the country's appetite for organic food The enduring popularity of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, perplexes some western observers, who know him mainly for his increasingly authoritarian actions.
At the same time, skeptics in Washington and Europe have expressed concern that the price of the reset may be too high if it effectively means muting or toning down American criticism of Russian authoritarian actions at home and pressure on neighbors abroad.
While hundreds of Tibetans still make their way out of Tibet every year in protest at what they describe as the authoritarian actions of the Chinese authorities, many in this town in the foothills of the Himalayas were born here and have no personal experience of Tibet, apart from the stories told to them by their parents.
Legal blogger Scott Lemieux on Lawyers, Guns and Money also weighed in, on this point about Wolf's view of how US government works: "In this case, there seems to be an implicit states' "rights" assumption at work – authoritarian actions could not be the result of our benevolent local overlords but must be the work of the big bad feds".
Caligula, the mad Roman emperor, infamously appointed his horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate, and that has been for millennia a byword for cracked authoritarian action.
"I wish more people would wake up to the fact that it is both parties carrying out authoritarian action like this".
But setting all that aside, the voters who are supporting Trump based on his tough-guy talk and promises of authoritarian action are being sold fraudulent merchandise.
To his detractors, it was a step toward quasi-authoritarian action, since he bypassed any consensus decision from his coalition partners as well as a Parliamentary vote.
If Erdogan ultimately confirms analyses that he is building a "competitive authoritarian" regime, his actions will be less novel than the context in which he acted.
