1.   Asean is a cozy club of mainly authoritarian leaders whose human rights policies benefit themselves at the expense of their people.

2.   At the same time, it is looking for enough time to conform to international trading rules so that its authoritarian leaders can minimize internal disruption and resistance.

3.   After agreeing under international pressure to a peace plan last fall, the authoritarian Serb leader resumed his ethnic cleansing attacks.

4.   But despite the protestations of Jiang and other authoritarian leaders of developing nations, there is no inherent conflict between food and freedom or between democracy and social order.

5.   Critics in the church say he is an authoritarian leader who is undermining the independence of the Greek Orthodox church in America.

6.   Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine of France cited Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein as examples of authoritarian leaders who had only been reinforced either by military force or economic sanctions.

7.   He was austere, solitary, a problematic figure undoubtedly more at home with authoritarian leaders than democrats.

8.   Now, not quite five years since its liberation from the Soviet Union, Belarus is rapidly slipping back toward tyranny under an authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko.

9.   Now authoritarian leaders know they are a threat.

10.   Some seemed befuddled as to how the orchestra could exist without an authoritarian artistic leader.