totalitarian government

collocation in English

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totalitarian
adjective
uk
/təʊˌtæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/us
/toʊˌtæl.əˈter.i.ən/
of or being a political system in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people freedom to ...
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government
noun
uk
/ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us
/ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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(Definition oftotalitarianandgovernmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But perhapstotalitariangovernmentinevitably involves the danger - if not the practice - of this perversion of medicine.
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To submit tototalitariangovernmentis not to escape death for ourselves, or even for our children, or our grandchildren.
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We are working towards democracy and not towards atotalitariangovernment, which we shall not support or countenance.
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If atotalitariangovernmentwere to behave in this way we should expect it of them; but we are supposed to be a democratic society.
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In many places the resistance against atotalitariangovernmenthas undoubtedly led to a great suspicion of any government in any shape or form.
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It seems to me that we would be going still further along the road towardstotalitariangovernment.
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We do not wish to havetotalitariangovernmentof our cities any more thantotalitariangovernmentof the nation.
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They are there in every kind of democracy, and also in every kind oftotalitariangovernment.
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What is left of democracy we intend to retain, and, instead of going along the road tototalitariangovernment, we are going back to the road of real democratic government.
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In this turmoil, the democratic government has been overthrown and atotalitariangovernmenthas been put in its place.
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Desperate by this point, the increasinglytotalitariangovernmentresorts to increasingly ruthless measures to try to staunch the epidemic.
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There is clearly atotalitariangovernmentin place.
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We do not believe in or support tyrannical ortotalitariangovernmentof any type.
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These paintings were the frank reaction of the artist to the reinforced pressure of thetotalitariangovernment.
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Thetotalitariangovernmentteaches that love is a disease, named "amor deliria nervosa", commonly referred to as the deliria.
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He has artificially enhanced his body in order to overthrow the men in charge of thetotalitariangovernment responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter.
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Democracy can commit no greater crime against democratic theory than to assume something which totalitarian governments take for granted.
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The totalitarian governments have always tried to begin with the children.
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Totalitarian governments do not have to negotiate; they just tell you.
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