(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.
Synopsis
Definition:
(n.) A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnosis of PTH still should rely on a synopsis of a typical clinical and biochemical hepatitis syndrome, characteristic serological findings and an adequate intervall between blood transfusion and outbreak of hepatitis.
(2) Thus, the signification and influence of religious, metaphysical, legal, socioeconomical and certain technical factors of the autopsy practice are briefly described, followed by a synopsis of the situation of the pathologist facing the demands of medicine, science, education, and administration.
(3) On the occasion of a case with fetal paroxysmal tachykardia a synopsis is given on former observations of extreme fetal tachycardias ante-partum.
(4) The authors describe their own experiences with this problem, as well as a synopsis of pertinent scientific literature.
(5) He performed his debut show , Dicing with Dr Death, as part of the Edinburgh fringe comedy festival, described in its synopsis as “a rip-roaring ride through his 20 years working with life’s one certainty: death”.
(6) A synopsis of the last 12 years provides information about the patients, indications for storage, the method of preservation used and the fate of the cryopreserved samples used for insemination.
(7) Since each of the specific CSF parameters may be false negative in some cases, a careful synopsis of laboratory parameters was done.
(8) After the inspector general released an unclassified synopsis of the report in September, the air force claimed the watchdog relied on outdated, year-old information.
(9) This synopsis of the two syndromes includes definition, relative incidence, mechanism of fertilization, and clinical course.
(10) This brief synopsis of an organizational perspective on early development represents an integration of three major areas of the author's research: that of a detailed observational study of early mother-infant interaction over the first three years of life; that of a continuous neonatal state and caregiving interactional monitoring method over the first two months of life; and that of a 25- to 30-year follow-up on the same infants observed initially.
(11) These are summarized with a synopsis of the recommended treatments for the various conditions in Table 1.
(12) An evaluative synopsis indicates that including the case described in this paper only 13 can be regarded as a clinical, morphologic, and functional entity.
(13) A systematically organized synopsis involving a numerical estimate of different taxons (a quantitative analysis per Prosobranchia and Pulmonata subclass families) is presented.
(14) Histological and roentgenological synopsis on the importance of lymphangiosis carcinomatosa for the occurrence of unilateral Kerley-B lines.
(15) Our synopsis of serovars corresponds with the results obtained in a recent world-wide study.
(16) We present here a brief synopsis of the ontogeny of immunotoxicology as a discipline including methodology currently used in our laboratory, as well as in others, for investigating the immunomodulatory potential of chemicals at the cellular and biochemical level.
(17) Based on a series of known facts on clinical findings and changes in the metabolism of chronic alcoholics and delirious people the possible pathomechanism of cerebral imbalances is presented according to a synopsis.
(18) Finally, a synopsis of equivalent nonparametric procedures for common parametric methods is presented.
(19) It should be included in the synopsis of all endocrine and genetic parameters of a patient, particularly in clinic in which the morphological substrate of disturbed functions and apparent diseases is still examined.
(20) Within each industrial category, a synopsis of individual genetic toxicity studies is presented, followed by an interpretation of results on a comprehensive, industry-wide basis.