Sentence examples for authoritarian officials from inspiring English sources

In a Huffington Post essay — "What Is It About Trees?" — the environmentalist Carl Pope notes how the tug of war between citizens and authoritarian officials in Turkey echoes events that spawned substantial movements in other countries.

In death, the Tunisian street vendor thumbed his nose at those authoritarian officials who he felt belittled by over the years.

In Season 1, we got to know protagonist Offred: who she was before she was captured by Gilead's authoritarian officials, the methods she uses to remain optimistic while enslaved as a sexual surrogate.

Washington is doing so in an effort to get "the truth" into Mr. Milosevic's authoritarian Serbia, officials say, where news is still dominated by state broadcasting, and to try to help the opposition overthrow Mr. Milosevic, through an uprising or elections.

Former authoritarian government officials who might now be in custody awaiting trial for committing torture can use the U.S. example as they fashion their defense: "The End Justifies the Means".

And now the UN is going to give these authoritarian nations official sanction to censor the online work of artists, filmmakers, writers, and creative thinkers.

Since movies need conflict, they find themselves squarely in the crosshairs of one Sir Alistair Dormandy Kenneth Branaghh), a priggishly authoritarian government official, who vows to remove this scurrilous influence from the public airwaves, one way or another.

In China's authoritarian state, senior officials tally petitions to get a rough sense of social order around the country.

Ignoring warnings that he harbored a sectarian and authoritarian agenda, U.S. officials supported his formation of a new government after elections in 2010.

The president was specifically critical of intelligence agencies for misjudging how quickly the unrest in Tunisia would lead to the downfall of the country's authoritarian government, the officials said.

Americans enjoy the notion that our commitment to transparency and accountability is a self-correcting constraint against the sort of clannish looting that infects authoritarian systems; Chinese officials prefer to imagine that the Party's devotion to sacrifice and fairness checks the culture of greed and self-dealing that infects capitalist political culture.