An authoritarian by instinct, he has spent years consolidating his grip on power, sometimes brutally.
Mr. Museveni has also lessened tribal tensions, though people complain that in the process he has become authoritarian by continuing to outlaw party politics.
Some Turks worry the purge will turn into a witch hunt targeting anyone who opposes Erdogan, whose rule has increasingly been called authoritarian by his critics.
Authoritarian by psychology and instinct, Trump salves their anxieties by promising to repel their enemies and restore their primacy – by whatever means, whoever those enemies may be.
The PAP rule is termed authoritarian by some activists and opposition politicians who see the strict regulation of political and media activities by the government as an infringement on political rights.
In the mid-twentieth century, H. F. M. Prescott attempted to redress the tradition that Mary was intolerant and authoritarian by writing more objectively, and scholarship since then has tended to view the older, simpler, partisan assessments of Mary with greater scepticism.
