The phrase "authoritarian stance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a position or viewpoint that supports strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
Example: "The government's authoritarian stance has raised concerns among civil rights advocates."
Alternatives: "authoritarian position" or "authoritarian viewpoint".
Maduro took an especially tough, authoritarian stance in advance of promised demonstrations by the opposition in response to these further delays.
Erdoğan has vowed to "cleanse" all Gülen supporters from the state apparatus and civil services, drawing concern from Turkey's western allies over his increasingly authoritarian stance.
Throughout last June, hundreds of thousands took to the streets when an environmental protest aimed at saving an inner city park snowballed into a nationwide display of anger at Erdoğan's increasingly authoritarian stance.
EU officials, human rights organisations, the US government and the UN all expressed grave concern about Turkey's attempt to curb freedom of expression and the increasing authoritarian stance of the Turkish government.
This comes as good news to government critics who, concerned about Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian stance, accused him of wanting to "Putinise" the country in an effort to remain in charge beyond 2015, when he would be barred from serving as prime minister again.
But this is the first time that the prosecutor general, Talaat Abdallah, has followed up one of the complaints with legal action – a symbolic gesture that suggests President Mohamed Morsi's Islamist-led regime is now prepared to take a more authoritarian stance against its critics.
The band became known for an anti-authoritarian stance, playing abrasive songs that criticized gentrification and treatment of the homeless while predicting the collapse of mainstream society.
Some present-day Pentecostals perpetuate this anti-authoritarian stance, preferring (by wide margins) common sense to intellectual know-how, and viewing cultural elites with deep suspicion and antipathy.
Pissarro emerges from this exhibition as an artist who never quite resolved the conflict between labor and sensation, but one whose subtly anti-authoritarian stance propelled painting into the next century.
What united the groups then and now, as became clear during interviews and at a round-table discussion Saturday afternoon at the New School, was their common anti-authoritarian stance.
Pissarro emerges from this exhibition as an artist who never quite resolved the conflict between labor and sensation, but whose subtly anti-authoritarian stance propelled painting into the next century.
