6 sentences with 'authoritarian'

Example sentences and phrases with the word authoritarian and other words derived from it.


« None of the initial problems that caused the civil wars in the first place were resolved, and Cromwell himself had ended up as authoritarian and autocratic as Charles had been. »
« The Japanese state was organised along very authoritarian lines, with the symbolic importance of the emperor retained, but practical power held by the cabinet and the heads of the armed forces. »
« The very nature of the break with a single authoritarian institution provoked a number of competing movements, some of which were directly inspired by and connected to Luther, but many of which soon were not. »
« The German chancellor and cabinet answered not to the Reichstag but to the Kaiser (the emperor), and while regional governments had considerable control at the local level, the federal structure was highly authoritarian. »
« Even Kant's essay celebrated what he described as the "public use of reason", that is, the exchange of ideas among intellectuals, while defending the authoritarian power of the (Prussian, in his case) king to demand that his subjects "obey". »
« Unfortunately, in January 1933, Hindenburg was persuaded by members of his cabinet led by a conservative Catholic politician, Franz von Papen, to use Hitler and the Nazis as tools to help dismantle the Weimar state and replace it with a more authoritarian political order. Thus, Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor, the second most powerful political position in the state. Hitler seized the opportunity to launch a full-scale takeover of the German government. »

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