Sentence examples for authoritarian fist from inspiring English sources

"An American hand reaching out to an unclenching authoritarian fist" was, opined the columnist, a metaphor "of hope, as the president intends — but also one of vulnerability, as Obama may discover sooner than he expects".

As a pragmatist in the mould of Rommel, he'd be certain that decisive authoritarians would make a better fist of the current crisis than equivocating democrats.

The notoriously authoritarian generals who have ruled the country with an iron fist for almost five decades decided to relinquish some of their control in 2011 and form a quasi-civilian government.

It's no longer possible for authoritarian governments to control what their citizens see and hear by clamping their iron fists down on newspapers and television/radio stations, unless they want to shut down the Internet and phone services entirely…and not even tyrants want to time-travel back to the 20th century that badly, unless they absolutely have to.

And authoritarian leaders in Egypt and the Gulf States are using this turmoil to justify their own iron-fist policies.

Too authoritarian?

But authoritarian?

Many more became authoritarian.

The fist.

Fist bump?

It's authoritarian.