| The danger posed by any expansionist authoritarian regime is proportional to its strength, not its espousal of democratic principles. |
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| Such measures can be implemented only by an authoritarian regime, free from any democratic checks and balances. |
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| There is no public scrutiny of what is a very secretive and authoritarian regime. |
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| It predates the current authoritarian regime in the Kremlin, but still links the enclave to the mothership of the Russian Federation. |
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| Since their power base was outside the Reichstag, in the court, army, bureaucracy, and Protestant Church, he would be able to refound the Reich as a more authoritarian regime. |
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| At the same time the vast public resources available to office holders are used to sustain the authoritarian regime. |
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| We cannot allow one man to mock the whole of Europe and to run his authoritarian regime right under our very noses with impunity. |
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| What we must first condemn is the destruction of a country by an appalling authoritarian regime. |
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| What's more, Saddam Hussein's authoritarian regime ingrained deep-seated feelings of suspicion and mistrust in Iraqi society. |
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| The country is going through a domestic political crisis, with rebel groups confronting an authoritarian regime. |
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| This tough economic situation may yet need an authoritarian regime to solve the problem. |
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| The Greek-Catholic elite was one of the targets of this authoritarian regime and were made to pay for the ideology of Pan-Arabism. |
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| I think the myth that there can be considerable development under an authoritarian regime has been torn to pieces. |
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| The crisis in neighbouring Ukraine has rattled Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian regime. |
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| Under the authoritarian regime, many hidden interests were managed. |
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| Living under an authoritarian regime tightly controlled by the Security Police, Vietnamese people have lost their right to demonstrate in public for the past 54 years in northern Vietnam and for 34 years in the South. |
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| The overwhelming majority of people would certainly prefer the second option, namely an enlightened authoritarian regime that guaranteed social and economic development. |
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| The problem is that an authoritarian regime that is not responsive to the wishes of the people of Iran will need, as an ideological expedient, confrontation with the west, anti-American rhetoric, anti-Israeli rhetoric. |
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| However, transparency is poison for every authoritarian regime. |
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| Not cool, insensitive foot-soldiers of the authoritarian regime. |
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| But where is the dividing line between that kind of authoritarian regime and an oligarchy of corrupt parasites, whose very existence precludes any development? |
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| After the fall of the authoritarian regime in 1998, the constitution was amended and new laws were passed to democratize Indonesia's political system. |
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| With these strong points on its side, the EU should not be tolerating an authoritarian regime playing around with the citizens of Belarus in its backyard. |
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| A common task, both for the EU governments and the democratic forces of Belarus, is to show to the Byelorussian society a real alternative to the authoritarian regime of Lukashenka and to his economic model. |
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| Full disclosure can allow an authoritarian regime to weaken opposition parties by undermining the financial support of their sympathisers or allied interest groups. |
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| The plan has been implemented since February 1938 when, after a coup d'etat, the monarchic authoritarian regime has been imposed. |
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| The perception of the fact that Byelorussians are remembered and expected in Europe gives certainly the strength to all our citizens who stand against the authoritarian regime. |
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| It could backslide into another authoritarian regime. |
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| The decline of the UCD and the change of the prime ministers coincided with the death throes of the authoritarian regime to defend itself against democracy. |
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| We as lawyers have realized with clear concerns that Turkey is moving towards a plebiscitary authoritarian regime. |
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| Some protracted transitions, of course, may not be blocked: opposition forces may be creatively organizing even while an authoritarian regime maintains power. |
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| The good news from the Facebook incident is that even an authoritarian regime like Hanoi has to consider public reaction to its policies-and these policies don't necessarily achieve the intended objectives of authorities. |
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| Analyzes the impact upon Russian energy exports if Russia abolishes energy subsidies to Belarus or the Belarusan authoritarian regime is forced out of power. |
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| Under Mugabe's authoritarian regime, the state security apparatus has dominated the country and been responsible for widespread human rights violations. |
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