The phrase "authoritarian status" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or situation where a government or organization exercises authoritarian control or power.
Example: "The country has been under an authoritarian status for several years, limiting the freedoms of its citizens."
Alternatives: "authoritarian regime" or "authoritarian rule".
Backing Sissi could indicate resignation to — if not active support for — the authoritarian status quo.
In Egypt, while the Muslim Brotherhood has been officially banned, the army has been seen more as the defender of the authoritarian status quo rather than secularism itself.
The mass demonstrations that rocked two European capitals Sunday told a continental story — an illustrative arc that begins with populist ire and anti-migrant sentiment and ends with disillusionment with an increasingly authoritarian status quo.
Christians are to be accepted as long as they acknowledge Sisi's regime as their protector and shield; that means their political voices are arrogated by the conservative church leadership, which was shaken by a wave of internal revolt in the aftermath of Mubarak's fall but has since reasserted its authority and proved a staunch backer of the authoritarian status quo.
The news agency explains that the auditing office will now "enjoy more independent and authoritarian status".
Hence the authoritarian status quo persists.
She pointed out that in a perverse way, artists are accorded more power and status in authoritarian countries.
Some people, the theory went, were more inclined to discriminate than others; prejudice was linked to traits such as authoritarianism, associated with a highly subservient attitude towards authority figures and an authoritarian attitude towards lower-status minorities.
Paris, 1967: fueled by Cold War fears, anti-authoritarian furor, and newfound status among the global filmmaking elite, French auteur Jean-Luc Godard writes and directs La Chinoise.
Or one in which "improved relations" soon could risk being a kind of American acquiescence to the existence of an authoritarian Russia, claiming great power status and abandoning any notions of democratic change.
His youth, education, and exposure to the West seemed to offer the possibility of a departure from what had been the status quo: an authoritarian state, policed by a network of powerful overlapping security and intelligence agencies, and a stagnant state-run economy reliant on shrinking oil reserves.
