31.   Murdoch was partly seeking to appease the Chinese government, whom he had offended by asserting that satellites could be used to bypass the restrictions of authoritarian regimes.

32.   Of course, authoritarian regimes across the world pose terrible difficulties for serious journalists.

33.   None of this is to suggest that Russia would be better off with some sort of authoritarian regime.

34.   On the one side, he had to deal with the authoritarian regime of Ngo Dinh Diem and a morass of corruption and ineffectiveness that was hard to overlook.

35.   Once again, as often happens with authoritarian regimes, ruling government interests were confused with national interests.

36.   Other colleagues, particularly from authoritarian regimes, fear being isolated or tagged as traitors or troublemakers.

37.   Perhaps they should be seen as another example of the stress and isolation borne by Jewish communities, and other religious minorities, under authoritarian regimes.

38.   Publishing under the nose of an authoritarian regime does carry risks.

39.   Russians have a popular saying, spawned during centuries under the harsh rule of czars, and decades more under the authoritarian regimes of the communists.

40.   Some Western and Russian critics see in all that the seeds for a new authoritarian regime.