Sentence examples for authoritarian responses from inspiring English sources

Where does this momentum towards authoritarian responses come from?

Then we had "Europe may be on the brink of a period of social turbulence – with all the authoritarian responses that will almost inevitably follow.

It wasn't; actually New Labour was in many ways a mutation of a consistent Labour preference for top-down, collectivist centralising and, in some cases, downright authoritarian responses.

Authoritarian responses to class conflict and economic crisis were encouraged by an international environment that seemed to offer little opportunity for shared economic growth and few if any alternatives to nationalist protection and preparation for renewed military hostilities.

"If climate projections stay on their current path, the drought situation in North Africa and the Middle East is going to get progressively worse, and you will end up witnessing cycle after cycle of instability that may be the impetus for future authoritarian responses," argues Femia.

His intemperate public utterances — he called the Sejm a "prostitute" – and his sending ninety armed officers into the Sejm building in response to an impending vote of no-confidence, caused concern in contemporary and modern-day observers who have seen his actions as setting precedents for authoritarian responses to political challenges.

That seemed like an unnecessarily authoritarian response to people who just wanted to be heard.

In withdrawing such supports, the coalition is compounding the misery that contributes to child abuse while providing an increasingly authoritarian response.

In Kenya (90th, -18), the government's authoritarian response to the media's coverage of the Westgate Mall attack was compounded by dangerous parliamentary initiatives.

They are worried his rhetoric to take over government nationally will bring a defensive, authoritarian response from the incumbent government and that his young coalition lacks the experience to address the growing national problems exacerbated by Abdullah's mismanagement.

Ronald Rubin Topanga, Calif., Sept. 11, 2007 • To the Editor: Representative Ike Skelton's threat to prosecute the protesters who disrupted the Congressional hearing on the Iraq war was not "an unnecessarily authoritarian response to people who just wanted to be heard" (editorial, Sept. 11).