Sentence examples for somewhat authoritarian from inspiring English sources

You've met a lot of people who I imagine have somewhat authoritarian personalities.

He preferred the democratic and pacifist Social Democrats to the somewhat authoritarian Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein ("General German Workers Associationn").

He was well loved until his parents divorced, when he was nine, and he wasn't so badly treated after that; his mother was self-involved, his father uncommunicative and somewhat authoritarian, but neither was anything like abusive.

"The mayor tried to distance himself from models viewed as somewhat more authoritarian in terms of citizen behavior, but while people may have been unsatisfied with so much control, they're now far more unsatisfied with a total lack of control".

That's won him accolades from the stateless, somewhat anti-authoritarian crypto community.

Clouding the picture somewhat of an authoritarian government able to impose its economic will, Russia's long-serving finance minister, Aleksei L. Kudrin, resigned Monday after Mr. Putin's announcement.

Where the former comes across as somewhat of an authoritarian, Hiddink is much more of a "people's manager" and a "great communicator".

But the cables also convey a nuanced assessment of the French leader as a somewhat erratic figure with authoritarian tendencies and a penchant for deciding policy on the fly.

From soldier to statesman * The Gambia's notoriously authoritarian and somewhat eccentric President started his career as a young lieutenant before sweeping to power in 1994 in a military coup.

Kyrgyzstan has turned into a preferred location in part because its society is considered relatively open and its government, while authoritarian, is somewhat less so than those of its neighbors.

Nevertheless, Houphouët-Boigny's regime was somewhat less harsh than other authoritarian African regimes.