Examples of totalitarian in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The United States is now trying to ban that spyware, in part because it has been used by totalitarian governments to track opponents. — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2022 More than a thousand protesters were arrested in a sign of the totalitarian nature of Russia's government. — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2022 No Soviet tanks are poised to roll across the Prussian plains and absorb all Europe in a totalitarian empire. — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022 Conservatives have convinced themselves and their voters that Democrats are the totalitarian, liberty-hating party. — Joel Mathis, The Week, 21 Feb. 2022 Such speech restrictions are seen as insurance against a return to the continent’s totalitarian past. — Jacob Mchangama, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022 But transitioning from life in a totalitarian and impoverished country to a capitalist and tech-savvy South Korea is no easy task. — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2022 Conjuring a dystopian future from the dominant fears of 2016 might have guided Yanagihara toward a different kind of totalitarian state, one centered on an incompetent strongman with a cultlike following. — Rebecca Panovka, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022 The beginning of the Afghan war saw Al Qaeda cast as an heir to Nazism, a move that elided the differences between a totalitarian state and a terrorist organization. — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom. — Néstor T. Carbonell, National Review, 16 July 2021 And there’s another reason why totalitarians capable of horrific human rights violations are a real hosting nightmare. — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019 Some of his most popular works were surrealistic fantasies set in grisly worlds run by totalitarians and conformists. — Fox News, 28 June 2018 Some of Ellison's most popular works were surrealistic fantasies set in grisly worlds run by totalitarians and conformists. — Robert Jablon, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018 Surveying the literary output of leaders from Lenin to Kim Jong-il, Kalder asks why so many totalitarians dabble in literature. — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018 No reasonable purpose is served by using a term that lumps together totalitarians, autocrats, conservatives and democratic nationalists, as though these are all varieties of a single dark worldview. — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017 Alas, the illiberal totalitarians who demanded that the American Conservative Union reverse course denied us a chance to find out. — Osita Nwanevu, Slate Magazine, 12 Mar. 2017 That’s always true of violent radicals and would-be totalitarians. — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017 See More

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