Example sentences for: authoritarianism

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

  • He imagined himself frozen through 50 years of authoritarianism, awakening in 1979 into a risk-free world where people of his temperament were no longer allowed to exist.

  • By 600 b.c. , the Indo-Aryans had formed monarchies in the Ganga plain, surrounded by smaller tribes resisting the Brahmanic orthodoxy and its authoritarianism.

  • In the '70s, Kissinger downplayed ideological conflict with Soviet Communists in favor of soothed relations, just as Sino-apologists (including Kissinger) today ignore China's Communist authoritarianism, human rights violations, and suppression of democracy.

  • Régis Debray, Che's comrade, wrote a memoir last year in which he warned against exactly that delusion--"the anti-authoritarian revolt of '68 taking this hardcore partisan of authoritarianism for its emblem."

  • Analysts consider Jiang a clumsy weakling compared with Deng, and are debating whether 1) he will continue Deng's reforms or return to authoritarianism and 2) he can consolidate power or will be outmaneuvered by rivals.


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