Sentence examples for paternalistic leader from inspiring English sources

Mr Luzhkov is the embodiment of a 1990s paternalistic leader who ran Moscow as his fief, drawing on the support of the population.

After Mr. Daley announced on Tuesday that he would step down next year, a city accustomed to the undisputed, paternalistic leader wondered where power would find its new center.

At the same time he amassed a considerable personal fortune, exiled most of his political opponents, owned large areas of land and many businesses, and pictured himself as a paternalistic leader in charge of a benighted people.

One principal reason that Phil Jackson has been such a successful coach is that he has the ability to function as a subtly paternal rather than sadistically paternalistic leader of a group of young black men (many of whom grew up without fathers) who might have use for a mentor but have none for a tyrant.

He is equivalent of Paternalistic leader in Chinese leadership literature, exhibiting Benevolence, Authoritarianism and Morality (Farh & Cheng 2000).

While no one is predicting a new era of noisy, public agitation or the imminent end of Singapore's single-party dominance, social activists and political analysts point to the increasing number of people who are shedding a long nurtured reluctance to challenge the nation's paternalistic leaders and their "autocratic light" style of governance.

This structural imbalance is at the heart of most corporate cultures, whether leaders are paternalistic, micromanagers or matrix-management buffs.

Whatever the composition of the family, the humanistic leader recognizes that paternalistic physician patient/family interactions are outdated and should be replaced by partnership.

The problem with this line of argument, I think, is that even if it doesn't presuppose motive on the part of Band Aid's organisers, it narrows down Band Aid down to being a phenomenon controlled by them: here comes the leader to dispense his paternalistic solution from on high.

Svetlana Solodovnik, who studies the Orthodox church, says that religious leaders work "to nurture a paternalistic mood" among the population and "to teach people to rely on the state and to be grateful for its care".

The students joined forces with eight million angry workers – who worried De Gaulle's government more – but union leaders were as traditional and paternalistic as the president, and spooked by his suggestion that the youthful revolution was heading towards a Communist takeover.