Sentence examples for highly authoritarian from inspiring English sources

Sarit's regime was highly authoritarian.

Since Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) was a highly authoritarian society, political satire was rarer, but not at all unknown.

But Belarus, a highly authoritarian and extremely poor former Soviet republic, had long resisted giving up its nuclear fuel.

And countries across the far east, including Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, have chosen highly authoritarian versions of democracy that they believe are fundamental to economic success.

Of course it doesn't require a highly authoritarian regime to run a successful nutrition program: Brazil and Thailand both did so in the 1980s.

That question goes to the heart of conflict prevention, and of how we deal with countries that are run by highly authoritarian governments.

They were simply bequeathed by departing imperial powers who left highly centralised, authoritarian states to a tiny group of western-educated Africans who rushed in and took over.

However, at the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903, Potresov and the Mensheviks broke with Lenin over the latter's demand for a highly centralized, authoritarian party.

The security preoccupations of Olympics present unprecedented opportunities to push through highly elitist, authoritarian and speculative urban planning efforts that otherwise would be much more heavily contested – especially in democracies.

Second, without a local political tradition, it was difficult for Moldova to agree on a constitution and to find political leaders untainted by association with the highly centralized, authoritarian Soviet Union.

They link it to the implementation of regional autonomy in 1999 as part of the country's transition toward democracy after the late President Suharto's three decades of highly centralized, authoritarian rule.