(1) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(2) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the authoritarian, neo-Islamist president – and Davutoğlu’s political nemesis – has a less positive view of the EU.
(3) If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and – importantly – accept the consequences of his actions.” “He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers – not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime.
(4) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
(5) This comes as good news to government critics who, concerned about Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian stance, accused him of wanting to "Putinise" the country in an effort to remain in charge beyond 2015, when he would be barred from serving as prime minister again.
(6) The so-called “709 crackdown” has alarmed activists and foreign observers who view the offensive as part of a broader bid to consolidate political control by an increasingly authoritarian leadership.
(7) But now, six months later, Xi appears to be more of a Putin than a Mikhail Gorbachev , behaving like a leader more interested in consolidating his power and ensuring the survival of an authoritarian system than in adopting significant political reforms.
(8) During his stints in the Bush and Obama administration Comey has continually taken authoritarian and factually dubious public stances both at odds with responsible public policy and sometimes the law.
(9) In short, it is alleged that under his rule Sri Lanka is becoming a nasty, authoritarian quasi-rogue banana republic.
(10) When the state monitored all its citizens as though they were suspects – whether in East Germany or North Korea – we called it authoritarianism.
(11) Rather than breaking with the moralising authoritarianism of the colonial state, its postcolonial successors in many parts of the world chose continuity.
(12) But another worry, says Dodge, is that the price of Iraq's freedom will turn out to be an authoritarian political system.
(13) All hearts were beating for you as long as you were perceived as just another version of the liberal democratic protest against the authoritarian state.
(14) A confirmatory factor analysis on these subscales showed that the Affective Valence, Empathic Caring, Self-Sacrifice, and Societies' Duties subscales each reflect a humanitarian concern for children and that the Instrumentality and Authoritarian Attitude subscales tap values involving a moralistic expectation of children.
(15) Some describe Lee Bo’s suspected abduction as a potentially fatal blow to the former colony’s supposed autonomy from authoritarian China.
(16) The Ethiopian government claims credit for the growth but is criticised as authoritarian by human rights groups; there is only one opposition MP.
(17) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
(18) Among Asian-American students, peer support for academic excellence offsets the negative consequences of authoritarian parenting.
(19) Since the incumbent, Ilham Aliyev, inherited power from his late father 10 years ago, Azerbaijan has become mired in rampant corruption , and the ruling regime has grown ever more authoritarian and ruthless .
(20) But to have the remnants of an authoritarian state reverting unchecked, however infrequently, to the use of disproportionate force is unacceptable.
Domineering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domineer
(a.) Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
(3) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(4) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(5) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
(6) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(7) The dilemmas faced by the genetic counsellor are discussed in this variable autosomal dominant condition.
(8) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(9) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(10) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
(11) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(12) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
(13) In-vivo data are limited primarily to dominant lethal studies in rats and some in-vivo alkaline elution results.
(14) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(15) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(16) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(17) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
(18) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
(19) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
(20) Normally, the small longitudinal (arterioles to venules) gradient of microvascular and perimicrovascular pressures is not a major concern, but in nonuniform disease processes, such as microembolism, longitudinal inhomogeneity, and parallel inhomogeneity are dominant.