Sentence examples for authoritarian effort from inspiring English sources

New York Republicans, by the way, should flood the office of Gov. George Pataki with telephone calls and letters demanding that he abandon his authoritarian effort to prevent them from selecting from a full roster of candidates in the state primary.

Australia also deservedly gets a mention (in the rather unfortunately titled sub section, "Countries under surveillance") for its authoritarian efforts to filter all internet content.

We all recognize the overtly authoritarian efforts to terrorize populations from having been steeped in their imagery from an early age in our news reports and entertainments.

Years before the United States' war against the Taliban, at a time when the State Department was worrying over the dreary human rights record of President Islam Karimov's authoritarian government, the effort at military cooperation was already expanding, according to officials and military personnel from both countries.

In assessing the U.S. government's Internet freedom policy — announced a year ago by Hillary Clinton — one sees few signs that U.S. diplomats are aware of growing efforts by authoritarian governments to harness social forces to control the Internet.

There is a concerted effort by all authoritarian regimes to silence or at least quash the free spirits and creative endeavors who initiated them.

The security preoccupations of Olympics present unprecedented opportunities to push through highly elitist, authoritarian and speculative urban planning efforts that otherwise would be much more heavily contested – especially in democracies.

"It resembles a war zone less, and more an authoritarian government that is engaged in efforts to manipulate news reporting," he said.

Egyptians now favor stability over more radical change, leaving Toma and her allies unfortunately lonely in their continued efforts to dismantle this authoritarian state.

Mr. Bale's encounter with China's authoritarian system is sure to complicate efforts to publicize the film, part of a government campaign to bolster the country's so-called soft power.

It would be tragic if Egypt made all this effort to shake off an authoritarian leader only to have Mr. Morsi reimpose Mr. Mubarak's intolerant ways.