Former fundamentalists like me know that your worldview is so encompassing, authoritarian, and powerful that it defines who you think you are, the way you view the world, history, other people, the future, and your place in the world.
He proved a powerful, authoritarian figure.
In a striking intervention, he grouped the US president-elect with two of the world's most powerful authoritarian leaders, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
As I watched the Queen, princes and princesses raise their glasses to toast the leader of one of the world's most powerful authoritarian regimes on TV last week, I was horrified.
The atmosphere is befitting Russia's authoritarian image: the powerful Kremlin walls, the stately buildings and the proliferation of police emphasise the idea that this regime takes itself seriously (as have all regimes that have ruled from the Kremlin).
This is not the first time a powerful authoritarian force has tried to regulate the free tide of public opinion.
Finally, because of their high-status position at their home company, executives serving as outside directors are often powerful and authoritarian outside directors especially if they are the CEOs of their companies.
This, Feldman explained to me, is 'classic authoritarian leadership style: simple, powerful, and punitive.' ".
Emma Sky, the civilian adviser during the occupation, saw Maliki's parlous situation as the result of the White House's own policies: Bush and Obama had invested so heavily in Maliki, and made him so powerful, that his authoritarian behavior became inevitable.
