But cumulatively, some experts say, they are creating an increasingly authoritarian atmosphere.

More recently, some Western countries have said his rule has become increasingly authoritarian.

The move silenced, at least temporarily, one of the few independent news outlets in an increasingly authoritarian state.

By the start of the 1980s, Tsedenbal became increasingly authoritarian and erratic.

The law was proposed by the Party of the Right, which had become increasingly authoritarian during the 1930s.

And if the latter happens, an alienated people may lose its confidence in an increasingly authoritarian government.

Robert Mugabe's increasingly authoritarian rule is destroying the nation's wildlife programs.

The media attention focused on the event, further promoting the idea that Tuđman's rule was increasingly authoritarian instead of democratic.

Russia, for all its faults, remains a democracy, albeit an increasingly authoritarian one.

That may be a political price that even the increasingly authoritarian leadership here cannot afford to pay.