Nasir was criticized for his authoritarian methods against opponents.

Some of his authoritarian methods and nepotism however alienated a variety of groups in South Vietnamese society.

Rocker was disgusted by his schoolteacher's authoritarian methods calling the man a "heartless despot".

For decades after its founding, the party was a tool of successive presidents using authoritarian methods to insure one-party rule.

"To protect democracy and human rights, the Europeans have adopted the very authoritarian methods that they say they are acting to forestall."

He thought that the Bolsheviks had shown how the revolution was not to be made; by authoritarian rather than libertarian methods.

Previous studies have linked authoritarian methods with lower grades in school and later behavior problems.

If that has occasionally meant resorting to ugly and authoritarian methods, so be it, they say.

Political liberals in the south complained as well about the king's authoritarian methods.

This was a reaction against Longchamp's authoritarian method of government.