Sentence examples for authoritarian powers from inspiring English sources

Notionally those of high rank had vast authoritarian powers.

Rachman notes a "new confidence in the world's authoritarian powers – in particular China and Russia".

The choice of a law school was a curious place for discussion of authoritarian powers.

But that is unlikely to happen in 2013, because the world's two biggest authoritarian powers are also increasingly troubled.

And how long will the government, which has been slowly relaxing its mildly authoritarian powers, put up with the unrest?

Others give the secretary of state sweeping and authoritarian powers, with the limits of that power kept secret.

Yet not everything during the dreary years of authoritarian power was without visual merit.

China's rise as an authoritarian power has also revived a sense that democracies should stick together.

The point, they say, is this: any authoritarian power can be shamed, discomfited, made to change course and ultimately overthrown if "people power" and shrewd tactics are combined.

One is a confection of naive optimism that the rise of a continent-sized, authoritarian power could be accommodated in the global system without serious strains.

The authoritarian power is represented by a huge white hand that moves slowly out of the wings and silently demands obeisance.