11.   Despite remarkable advances under some Asian regimes, the rigid intolerance of these authoritarian capitalist states bears a troubling similarity to fascism.

12.   During the next eight years, he experienced the rigors of running a small business in an authoritarian state with a chaotic economy.

13.   However, the Communist leader said he would end corruption in government, launch a war on rampant Russian crime by establishing a more authoritarian state.

14.   Imagine the implications in an authoritarian state.

15.   Like the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, he argues that famines occur when authoritarian states mismanage the economy and the people have no redress.

16.   Most of the countries which still use it with much frequency, such as China or Iran, are authoritarian states without independent legal systems.

17.   Saddam relied on more than the security apparatus and the power of the party in an authoritarian state.

18.   Singapore remains an authoritarian state that subtly restricts free speech and political opposition, thus undercutting the U.S. argument that freer markets lead to freer politics.

19.   Some analysts attribute it to the boiling over of cultural differences long suppressed by an authoritarian state.

20.   That idea is opposed by many conservatives and liberals as a step toward an authoritarian state.