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authoritarian
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  • Mama Elena stopped what she was doing and addressed Tita in an authoritarian voice: "What happened?†  (source)
  • Where are you going, gentlemen?" the principal's loud, authoritarian voice boomed behind them.†  (source)
  • By this I mean the authoritarian power of State and Church.†  (source)
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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)
  • 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)
  • I had attended the ceremony against his vehement opposition, and he was feeling vindicated and authoritarian.†  (source)
  • Trisolaran society exists under a state of extreme authoritarianism.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • That may be because an authoritarian and patriarchal home environment is mirrored in an authoritarian and patriarchal political system.†  (source)
  • They set up one of the most authoritarian administrations on earth, one that tolerated no opposition to their hard-line policies.†  (source)
  • Everywhere it reflected the authoritarian spandrels of his character, from its surfeit of policemen to its strict rules against picking flowers.†  (source)
  • Economics aside, this is a conspiracy to undermine the leadership of a suspicious, authoritarian regime.†  (source)
  • Take me home!" she ordered, copying the authoritarian tone her grandfather employed with everyone he considered beneath his social station.†  (source)
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