Sentence examples for authoritarian future from inspiring English sources

The tendency is to report on China's hi-tech authoritarian future as if it is not our own.

Produced by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, the play followed the evolution of American society from the Depression into a chilling authoritarian future.

It all makes so much sense and it would be a sign that the country is rushing toward an authoritarian future.

The swell of public enthusiasm for democracy that at once foretold a more authoritarian future echoed my final weeks in Egypt three years earlier, and left me with a familiar unease.

The series, which ended in 2012, has been succeeded by the critically praised Hunger Games films, starring Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence as a fiercely independent woman battling against an authoritarian future regime.

Even George Lucas made a grown-up science-fiction film, "THX 1138," a 1971 parable about an authoritarian future society, before the runaway success of his "Star Wars" transformed the genre, apparently forever.

"If climate projections stay on their current path, the drought situation in North Africa and the Middle East is going to get progressively worse, and you will end up witnessing cycle after cycle of instability that may be the impetus for future authoritarian responses," argues Femia.

In other words, when Schaeffer discusses situations when "force in the defensive posture" may be appropriate, he's giving his readers advice for a hypothetical authoritarian situation in the future, not for the democratic present.

Anyone interested in tickets had to answer the question "How does the Capitol resemble Bangkok?", a reference to the authoritarian rulers of the future dystopian state of Panem in The Hunger Games series of books and films.

While he has yet to announce any coherent plans to reinvigorate Russia's economy, or to improve life for its impoverished population - a third of whom live beneath the official poverty line - the new president has already set an apparently authoritarian seal on the future style of government.

Even as unused resources pile up in this country, the regulatory environment has looked so oppressive that business leaders refuse to invest here at home, preferring once communist or still overtly authoritarian locales for their future expansion.