authoritarian attitude
collocation in Englishmeaningsofauthoritarianandattitude
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authoritarian
adjective
uk/ˌɔː.θɒr.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/us/əˌθɔːr.əˈter.i.ən/
demanding that people obey completely and refusing to allow them freedom to act as ...
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attitude
noun
uk/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofauthoritarianandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In my view, it is because as a nation we take an excessivelyauthoritarianattitudeto what listeners should hear and what viewers should see.
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This really is the type ofauthoritarianattitudewhich should be a thing of the past.
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Some of the authorities seem to exercise a quite disproportionateauthoritarianattitudein this respect towards lecturers who, after all, are people with very high professional standards.
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Pupils and students now are also far more questioning and are not prepared to accept the sort ofauthoritarianattitudethat has prevailed in the past.
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Suchauthoritarianattitudefurther marked the relationship in pre-colonial periods.
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Most cited were the prime minister'sauthoritarianattitude(92%), the police's disproportionate use of force (91%), the violation of democratic rights (91%), and the silence of the media (84%).
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These results offer new hope for democratic prospects, but the hope is tempered by evidence of lingering contradictions, pockets of authoritarian attitudes, and dissatisfaction with the democratic performance of regimes.
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Its abstention in the 1920s and 1930s from active labor legislation and its paternalistic and authoritarian attitudes toward labor organization are known to have had deep social and political implications.
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It sometimes leads nurses to take up rather authoritarian attitudes.
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Rightly, there has been much talk about the need for better supervision of these young constables, about the need for greater maturity and less authoritarian attitudes on their part.
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