totalitarian state

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalitarianandstate

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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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state
noun
uk
/steɪt/us
/steɪt/
a condition or way of being that exists at a ...
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(Definition oftotalitarianandstatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the moderntotalitarianstate.
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And how might atotalitarianstatediffer from a democracy?
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Given this, it seems reasonable to think that any rational person would prefer even the mosttotalitarianstateto life in the state of nature.
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But the party itself could not embody totalitarian fulfilment; it could only claim to embody the totalitarian ideal, to be realised in thetotalitarianstate.
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Did it now obediently serve atotalitarianstate?
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In that sense, thetotalitarianstatedoes not stand opposed to the freedom of differentiated individuals, as we tend to assume it must.
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Dismissive of everything that did not fit the essentialist telos of war, he conveyed no sense of the deeper meaning of thetotalitarianstateidea.
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Its creators (and heroes) are more concerned with the confrontation between their own youthful dreams and the ideological workings of the bureaucratic machine of repression in thetotalitarianstate.
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I was under the impression that only atotalitarianstatecould give the power to tell lies.
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This country is not as yet atotalitarianstate.
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In a dictatorship, or in atotalitarianstate, the people are a threat to authority.
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In thetotalitarianstatehe has the right of voting for someone who is selected for him by the autocrat.
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If he is, he is in the wrong country —he is not in a democratic society but atotalitarianstate.
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There are plenty of opinions on the subject, many based on prejudice, which would be fine in a closed,totalitarianstate.
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We are seeing a country that is moving dangerously towards atotalitarianstatethat will push wherever it can.
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But it is not an ordinary party; it holds supreme power in atotalitarianstate.
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We have seen the total disruption of the rule of law, thetotalitarianstateis now complete and tyranny is fully entrenched.
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That diminution was not brought about by popular request but by thetotalitarianstate.
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The reverse is true of atotalitarianstate.
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