Sentence examples for essentially authoritarian from inspiring English sources

A lot of people in the West think the systems collapsed because they were essentially authoritarian, that you need democracy for capitalism to function well.

Therefore, those impetuous accusers of Ruism who claim that it is essentially authoritarian may only rarely be correct.

Even today, a denunciative rhetoric against Ruism is still in circulation, a falsehood fabricated by radically westernized Chinese intellectuals in the early 20th century, which claimed that Ruism is an essentially authoritarian tradition urging a one-dimensional, blind obedience by inferiors towards superiors in every social and political hierarchical relationship.

"A state like the US [is.]... essentially an authoritarian conspiracy, and [Assange] then reasons that the practical strategy for combating that conspiracy is to degrade its ability to conspire, to hinder its ability to 'think' as a conspiratorial mind.

Her "earthy, essentially anti-authoritarian manner" is the same on and off screen, adds Higgins, who celebrates Beard's unpredictability.

With Miss DeLay's growing fame in the 1980's and 90's came detractors, including former students who complained that she was frequently late to lessons or that her essentially anti-authoritarian mode of teaching was actually lax and uninvolved.

"He's essentially an anti-authoritarian larrikin.

Some democracies, including long-standing ones such as Malaysia and Singapore, essentially have semi-authoritarian regimes.

Authoritarian government essentially takes its own citizens hostage.

But beneath the surface, there are potentially troubling sides to Hazare's movement: a developing personality cult, an authoritarian tendency and the essentially urban, middle-class nature of the phenomenon.

In central and eastern Europe, more old-style nationalist, authoritarian, sometimes religious but essentially ultraconservative parties such as Poland's Law and Justice and Hungary's Fidesz have been propelled to power.