The phrase "authoritarian hand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a controlling or oppressive influence or authority in a situation or context.
Example: "The government ruled with an authoritarian hand, suppressing dissent and limiting freedoms."
Alternatives: "oppressive grip" or "tyrannical control".
Its strict father (Brad Pitt), a civil engineer and aspiring inventor with a wife and three boys, rules the roost with an authoritarian hand.
For all their sci-fi brilliance, Dr. Soleri's plans suggest to some an authoritarian hand, a drawback that may have contributed to his period of disfavor.
Orpheus was formed 27 years ago with the idea of performing as a kind of player's collective, without the authoritarian hand of a conductor.
Kyrgyzstan's uprising raised hopes and fears that democratic movements were spreading, but Mr. Karimov, who has ruled Uzbekistan with an authoritarian hand, showed little hesitation before using force.
"I think a firm, strong, authoritarian hand cannot create unity," she says in the film, explaining the mind-set of the military rulers up to the election of the new, apparently reform-minded president, U Thein Sein.
In truth, Mr. Vieira de Mello began his work there with too heavy an authoritarian hand, but he soon backed off and increased the role of the Timorese in the transition.
The origin of the DHT profession (formerly the OHT) in Brazil was in the bureaucratic-authoritarian hands of the military dictatorship.
When, on the other hand, authoritarian governments are overthrown in military uprisings (as opposed to peaceful revolutions, which are more common), the arms that defeat them come from defecting soldiers or outside aid.
Some worry that they could also hand authoritarian governments the tools they need to censor the Internet: countries such as China and Singapore are already trying to filter out unwanted content.That France wishes to erect a virtual Maginot Line to fight an anti-semitic minority is in some ways understandable.
On the other hand, authoritarian regimes may take more drastic decisions for or against social spending than in the case of democratic regimes, due to the absence of "veto points" characterised by Immergut (1990) or "veto players" postulated by Tsebelis (2002), provided by different political systems to interest groups by not allowing them to gain veto power to block political reforms.
It told the US it would work to replace Saddam with an army officer who would keep the country in safe, authoritarian, Sunni Muslim hands.
