16 example sentences using authoritarian.
Authoritarian used in a sentence
Authoritarian in a sentence as a noun
Stop making up thought crimes, you authoritarian zealots!
And that's in Russia, that authoritarian backward country.
They also have raised a question in many people's minds: Are all authoritarian regimes now threatened by this new democratic wave?
Growing up in the 70s, we looked at news from the Soviet Union and other authoritarian regimes as blatantly untrue propaganda.
>If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?When it's too late to do anything about it.
I've a friend who spent a good deal of time recently in Khazakhstan, and she was very amused by my attempts to express my fears of the United States becoming an authoritarian police state.
> I've a friend who spent a good deal of time recently in Khazakhstan, and she was very amused by my attempts to express my fears of the United States becoming an authoritarian police state.
Murdoch is, I think, properly classifiable as an authoritarian collectivist -- a fascist.
Authoritarian in a sentence as an adjective
Because it is relatable to the target audience and sufficiently anti-authoritarian that they don't question the credentials.
That is why we call it "security theater" - because every informed person will realize it's a heap of ******** that serves no purpose but to get people used to methods of a authoritarian police state.
Google especially is sad to see since they were willing to forgo the Chinese market on principle, but then decided that taking on the authoritarian US government was too lucrative for principle to be involved.
From libertarians to environmentalists to any kind of anti-authoritarian that doesn't serve the interests of the establishment.
The most oppressive and authoritarian thing about it is, at root, that most people appear to enjoy it and not see any problems with it, while you view it as this heinous violation of your freedom and imposition on your private space.
Leaving aside the normal concerns about collaboration with an authoritarian government, this looks like a really big deal: Ubuntu is now the "reference architecture for standard operating systems" in China.
These sorts of tendencies can be considered anti-authoritarian, but it is a reactionary anti-authoritarianism, not a healthy, well-reasoned skepticism of prevailing authorities.
If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?When they have **** lists without any trial, jury or judge?When they keep prisoners in jail indefinitely without a trial?When they torture prisoners?When state officials lie to the public?When state officials lie to public representatives?When the secret police interfere with lawyers communications and interferes with legal cases?When the secret police silence individuals that want to inform about abuse?When the secret police use surveillance for blackmailing?When the state use strip searches and surveillance indiscriminately against the population, including children?When the state implement state censorship?When they use force against peaceful demonstrators?When they utilize military resources against peaceful demonstrators?When they seize bank assets without any trial, any intention of a trial, or even without ever formally serving the individual with criminal papers?Please state what criteria we should use, so we can have a final definition of what an authoritarian police state is.
Authoritarian definitions
a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"
See also: dictator
characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"
See also: autocratic dictatorial despotic tyrannic tyrannical
expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
See also: dictatorial overbearing