1.   In either case, the end result was the emergence or a strong centralized state under authoritarian rule.

2.   It is a liberal city, home ground to Kim Dae Jung, a longtime leader of opponents of authoritarian rule.

3.   It was a radical departure from the past, an interlude of democracy in an otherwise unbroken line of authoritarian rule.

4.   That civil war has been the rationale for the authoritarian rule Suharto and the military have enforced over the Decades.

5.   These transitions are likely to differ from recent western transitions from other types of authoritarian rule in a number of key respects.

6.   Senior officers could be considering a coup to restore authoritarian rule.

7.   The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself.

8.   Although democratically elected, his stature as a symbol of resistance has won him authoritarian rule.

9.   And a return to authoritarian rule is unthinkable in much of southern South America.

10.   And China and Singapore are prime examples of how free markets can thrive under authoritarian rule.