Sentence examples for authoritarian practice from inspiring English sources

Both of these features combined putative, proclaimed commitment to democratic popular power on the one hand with what was often brutal, bureaucratic and authoritarian practice in reality.

This smells like a cover-up likely to expand the nefarious and authoritarian practice of propagating "alternative facts" to give the appearance of honesty over lies.

Most political defectors leave the left because its authoritarian practices stand in such stark contrast to its emancipatory ideals.

They say the protests arise from widespread discontent with 57 per cent inflation, record shortages and authoritarian practices.

Protesters demanded an end to the authoritarian practices of the Assad regime, in place since Assad's father, Ḥafiz al-Assad, became president in 1971.

More than a million demonstrators joined protest marches last month challenging the Bouteflika government over economic hardships and its authoritarian practices.

SWAPO maintained its hold on power in the country's 1999 elections, in the face of allegations from the opposition now headed by a SWAPO splinter party, the Congress of Democrats that the government was engaging in authoritarian practices.

The government of President Thein Sein, which took office less than a year ago, has rescinded a number of the authoritarian practices that for decades had made Myanmar one of the most repressive countries in Asia.

Although Bakiyev employed a number of authoritarian practices to consolidate his power including undermining the opposition and promoting associates and relatives to important posts—he neither achieved full authority nor moved Kyrgyz politics firmly into authoritarianism.

For instance, the jailed leader of the teachers' union, Elba Esther Gordillo, has been replaced by her righthand man, Juan Díaz de la Torre, who has faithfully continued with her corrupt and authoritarian practices.

This means the right must rid itself of its nasty authoritarian practices and mindset, follow in the footsteps of modern conservative parties, and leave behind its fusty, old-fashioned views.