How to Use authoritarian in a Sentence

authoritarian

adjective

• And from the point of view of Putin's authoritarian regime, this is certainly a problem.
  — TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
• At the same time, Vucic grew more open in his courtship of the authoritarian leaders of Russia, Hungary and China.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• The rhetoric has stoked alarm among critics that a second Trump term could usher in a wave of authoritarian revenge.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• And as the 1980s wore on, the group caused its own downfall, becoming more authoritarian.
  — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
• If DeSantis makes it to the White House, life will get a lot more expensive and authoritarian too.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• In Belarus, red and white are the colors of the protest movement against the country’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko.
  — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• Seen in that light, slapping a charge of espionage on a journalist is one of the more Orwellian tools in the authoritarian playbook.
  — Bill Kovarik, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
• What the speech raised is the potent question: Can the Democrats successfully frame the 2024 election around the quest to preserve our democracy from the authoritarian whims of Trump and his rightwing clones?
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• In the end, the leaderless movement, clustered in pockets across the country, was no match for the keepers of Iran’s authoritarian system.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The good thing about being an authoritarian leader is that there are few people to dissent.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• This time around, Trump, who is known for his penchant for authoritarian leaders, has continued to praise Xi along the campaign trail.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• The three have spent years behind bars in Iran's Evin prison, infamous for its human rights abuses and as a symbol of the regime's authoritarian power.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• This song speeds past the worst aspect of authoritarian media that chews up and spits out so much popular culture.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2023
• Critics accuse him of leading the country down down a path of authoritarian rule.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The authoritarian system is formed in such a way that without a very clear command from the leadership, people don’t do anything.
  — Catherine Belton, Shane Harris and Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
• Boye was not the only writer of her time to be interested by the idea that authoritarian states might draw their power in part from the suppression of women.
  — Talya Zax, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• The authoritarian pasts of nations trying to leave those pasts behind and not quite succeeding.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
• However, the lack of the guidance offered by authoritarian parents takes a toll.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 June 2023
• Paul is their authoritarian leader, the Emperor of the Known Universe.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Well, a common feature of many authoritarian regimes, such as Russian, is that their leaders do not usually have a sense of humor.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• News of the Los Angeles woman’s arrest comes at a time when the authoritarian nature of the Russian state is causing deep alarm in Western capitals.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• This election season has raised fears that Indonesia, which was an authoritarian state not long ago, is in danger of sliding back toward its dark past.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• The authoritarian leaders, positioned to rule for life, did not take questions.
  — Robyn Dixon and Lily Kuo, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• In authoritarian regimes, such political challenges often boil down to a duel between two men to see who can outlast the other, and that is what happened in this case, Mr. Gallyamov said.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• The Capitol itself, meanwhile, is cold and authoritarian, contrasting the dystopian glam and couture present in the original films.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• PiS voters turn a blind eye to the fact that the country began to drift toward authoritarian rule, authorities neglect the EU's legal norms and the country continues on a collision course with the Union.
  — Tomek Rolski, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The antagonist here is the Narrator, who comes with an authoritarian British accent, now a Broadway signal for evil.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• This brings us to my fourth-and-a-half manifestation of laxity in the face of the authoritarian threat: this recent gossip that Jamie Dimon should jump into the presidential race.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
• Since then, her name has become a viral hashtag invoked by millions of online activists protesting authoritarian regimes around the globe.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
• The great replacement theory has also been used across Europe to justify the rise of authoritarian regimes, such as that of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024