Example sentences for: authoritarian

How can you use “authoritarian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Street crime is not usually rampant in non-democratic regimes, whether it's the Communist Soviet Union or authoritarian Taiwan.

  • His authoritarian rule has prevented the emergence of future leaders and the development of strong civic and political institutions.

  • He has assailed the corrupt, authoritarian regimes that rule most of the Arab world, punctured the ideological phantasms of Pan-Arabist nationalism and reactionary Islam alike, and bemoaned the impoverished state of Arab cultural and intellectual life.

  • Frederick II, the alternately splendid and frightening 13 th century monarch who earned the nickname stupor mundi , was, for him, the model of an enlightened authoritarian.

  • If you were a photographer and had to hire child models for an important shoot, you could hire from a reputable modeling agency that guaranteed its clients, or you could hire children off the street and also hire an authoritarian nanny to watch them every second.


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