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  • Bailey went on, revealing their coverage of a dozen authoritarian regimes, from Khartoum to Pyongyang, where the authorities had no idea they were being watched by three thousand Circlers in California—had no notion that they could be watched, that this technology was or would ever be possible.†  (source)
  • But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian.†  (source)
  • It is by definition a purely authoritarian state that tolerates no independence or individuality.†  (source)
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  • Both in looks and in speech he was mildly authoritarian; Vic and Roger had talked to some forty teachers and half a dozen child psychiatrists and had discovered that this was the sort of parental role model that the majority of kids feel most comfortable with, and the sort that so few actually have in their homes.†  (source)
  • Ezra Pound's politics, for instance, a mixture of anti-Semitism and authoritarianism that made Italian fascism congenial to him, are repugnant to any thinking person, and to the extent that they find expression in his poetry, they destroy everything they touch.†  (source)
  • Economics aside, this is a conspiracy to undermine the leadership of a suspicious, authoritarian regime.†  (source)
  • Trisolaran society exists under a state of extreme authoritarianism.†  (source)
  • He could think of no possible way he could tell them what they should work toward without falling back into the trap of authoritarian, didactic teaching.†  (source)
  • His first name is Josef and they call him Uncle Joe, because he has a mustache and an Eastern European accent and is authoritarian in his opinions.†  (source)
  • The figures you have been looking at show the present circumstances ...and the disaster they will produce in only a few years through drainage of Luna's natural resources—disaster which these Authority bureaucrats—or should I say 'authoritarian bureaucrats?'†  (source)
  • As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness.†  (source)
  • Coming from an authoritarian monarchy, the minister had a difficult time understanding how the legal maneuvering of a small group of political radicals and an impending hearing by some provincial tribunal could take precedence over the will of the country's chief executive.†  (source)
  • The meeting was full of strange crosscurrents: the nostalgic Piedmont, the religious Piedmont, the authoritarian Piedmont, the paternal Piedmont, and the one I would come to know most intimately—the vengeful Piedmont.†  (source)
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