totalitarian system

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalitarianandsystem

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totalitarian
adjective
uk
/təʊˌtæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/
us
/toʊˌtæl.əˈter.i.ən/
of or being a political system in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people freedom to ...
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system
noun
uk
/ˈsɪs.təm/
us
/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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(Definition oftotalitarianandsystemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Look at the results today: the latter is still in the hands of atotalitariansystem, a dictatorship.
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I certainly do not want to see atotalitariansystemof society.
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I believe that he is against dictators and against thetotalitariansystemof government.
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Combined with decades of effective dictatorship under atotalitariansystem, this means that we cannot measure this country by our own standards.
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It is simply paying our respects to the victims of atotalitariansystem.
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We do not want atotalitariansystemof education in this country.
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As long as there is atotalitariansystemin industry we shall have to have rules and regulations in the trade union movement.
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It is not only the question of a man believing in a despotism, or in atotalitariansystem.
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There must now be a collective plan to fight thistotalitariansystem.
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That illustrates how thistotalitariansystemof control of our lives keeps breaking down.
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It is quite true that the expansion of wealth can be conducted more efficiently under atotalitariansystemthan under our system.
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It is the argument which has been used throughout to establish everytotalitariansystem.
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However, a country can have an immoraltotalitariansystemprovided that it is totalitarian.
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On the one side there is a greattotalitariansystemclosed to the outside world, and, on the other, the dollar system which can be independent and can live independently.
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I do not believe it can be done under any other system than atotalitariansystem, which is what we have got in this country during the war.
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We have atotalitariansystemin industry.
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The result is atotalitariansystemcharacterized by a government turned against its own people.
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The opposition and protest creates, in a way, a democratic space within thetotalitariansystem.
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It depicts the absence of liberty and the powerlessness of an individual within atotalitariansystem.
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Also, a more rounded view of privacy would also be wary of assuming that surveillance necessarily leads to totalitarian systems of control.
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