For example, a bass voice was generally used for an authoritarian or powerfully masculine figure.

Some contemporaries also saw him as a strict or authoritarian figure.

President Moi has always been an authoritarian figure, but he has become increasingly intolerant of opposition.

Into the 1970s, the role of the Stewards changed from one of authoritarian figures to counsellors for the younger boys.

"Many of us may still be looking for an authoritarian figure, for a father, in our doctor," they warned.

Most of these authoritarian figures have now happily departed from our midst.

But I'm also making very strong statements lyrically and this is very worrying to authoritarian figures.

He believed that the role of a teacher should be that of a "guide" as opposed to an authoritarian figure.

The main parties were pleased to have excluded such an authoritarian figure from government and de Gaulle did not return to power for 12 years.

What tips the balance for me is that Eleanor was a far more authoritarian figure than Cook lets on.