| The authoritarians wanted harsh penalties and as ungenerous a benefit system as possible. |
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| It provided a bridge between the corporate freemarketers and the moral authoritarians who define the poles of the Republican Party. |
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| He was against colonialism and neo-colonialism in all their forms, against racism, elites, and authoritarians of all varieties. |
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| That's normally been the strategy of the extreme right and the authoritarians. |
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| This exposed the long-hidden fault line between authoritarians and libertarians. |
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| But as for the majority, my impression is they are far from being instinctive authoritarians. |
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| The power structures may have changed, but authoritarians will still abuse power however they can. |
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| These decisions are simply too important to be made by authoritarians in secret. |
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| His was a family where fathers were absent figures, authoritarians, and mothers were the ones who communicated and shaped the children. |
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| This enables the authoritarians to bamboozle the people into thinking they are still free. |
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| In the end the authoritarians prevailed by consistently outvoting their opponents, and the libertarians were forced out. |
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| The old rationale for bearing with mere authoritarians has crumbled away with the passing of the expansionist Marxist-Leninist totalitarians. |
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| The absence of a real, active campaigning democratic left has left a vacuum which the authoritarians have filled. |
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| One does not have to go back to ancient Athens to grasp the depressing fact that most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily. |
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| They had expected that reform, if it came at all, would occur gradually and piecemeal, and would be the work of enlightened authoritarians rather than elected representatives. |
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| They, together with tyrants, also tend to be below general average educational achievements, while authoritarians and democrats exhibit the best performance in school. |
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| It tends to be pushed aside with references to the country's uniqueness a kind of all-season pass familiar to authoritarians around the world. |
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| But the abiding lesson of the past year is that such populists—still less anachronistic authoritarians such as Mr Castro or General Pinochet do not speak for the majority of Latin Americans. |
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| But the objection to authoritarians like Milo¨evi? is precisely that they vitiated the democracy of their country and set themselves up as being above the law. |
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| The elites behind them do, at least, more than do the authoritarians. |
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| Other countries where a shallow or weak civil society has abetted the entrenchment of elected authoritarians include Malaysia, Russia, and Cambodia. |
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| In a dystopian society in the future, a group of wealthy, epicene overlords — authoritarians with violet hair and the vicious manners of French courtiers — threaten and control an impoverished population. |
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| By their nature, populist authoritarians aren't easily managed. |
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| Above all, authoritarians have found a new model in China in which power revolves at the top every decade and economic growth is organised at the bottom. |
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| When authoritarians elsewhere point to the Western silence on Saudi Arabia's treatment of women, and its ruthless suppression of dissent, and cry double standards, they have a point. |
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