How To Use Tyranni In A Sentence

To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
Qui omnem pecuniarum contemptum habent, et nulli imaginationis totius munsi se immiscuerint, et tyrannicas corporis concupiscentias sustinuerint hi multoties capti a vana gloria omnia perdiderunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
Melanie is thrust into an unfamiliar family full of secrets, where Uncle Phillip pulls the strings, creating a tyrannical hold over the household.
But I 'll water 't wi' the blude of usurping tyrannie, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

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The thirteen colonies began with a defensive revolution against tyrannical oppression and they were victorious.
But both are tyrannies, utterly unaccountable to the people they rule. The Sun
No, they would not let themselves fall under some cruel tyrannical usurper.
One sign of his lack of the tyrannical gene was that he could not beat Dr Kepepwe at tennis. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
It is in his practical views on tyrannicide and political murder that Sexby's real inheritance still haunts us.
A prevailing style of dress has become known as being ‘in fashion’, but fashion has been described as a tyrannically democratic force, enforcing conformity to current social or moral conventions.
His conception of a restrained aristocratic manliness is as applicable to the potentially hubristic - or tyrannical - prince as it is to the courtier.
Fear makes our imagination conceive what it list, invites the devil to come to us, as [1667] Agrippa and Cardan avouch, and tyranniseth over our phantasy more than all other affections, especially in the dark. Anatomy of Melancholy
Tantum tunc temporis in miserrimos mortales potentiae et crudelis Tyrannidis Satan exercuit. Anatomy of Melancholy
While I was still in a dilemma as to whether I should ask them verbally if they are indeed cabbing, another dilemma stepped up in the form of a tyrannical auntie.
Les mémes causes empéchent les moirs qui vivent à la compagne d'avoir des plantations étendues; celles qu'ils cultivent sont bornées, mais généralement assez bien cultivées: de bons habits, _une log house_, ou maison de bois en bon état, des enfans plus nombreux les font remarquer des Européens voyageurs, et l'oeil du philosophe se plaît à considérer ces habitations, où la tyrannie ne fait point verser de pleurs. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
Proposition 22, which defined marriage to be between a man and a woman and adopted by California voters on March 7, 2000 with 61.4% in favor, was hijacked along with the California Legislative Branch by the Tyrannical Justices of the California Supreme Court which legislated from the bench in direct violation of the California Constitution and managed to null the will of the people and declare Proposition 22 unconstitutional. California becomes second U.S. state to legalize gay marriage : Law is Cool
The young composer wanders through a haunted mansion, trying to exorcise the spirits of his tyrannical father and castrating sisters.
This, and not the subventions of hegemonic states, is what will ultimately defeat both the secular tyrannies and the religious sectarians.
The global consequences of those private tyrannies unchecked by democratic governments are even worse.
Here Doyle's rhetoric begins to echo the US men's movement that campaigns bitterly - if rather quietly - about women controlling the domestic agenda, and tyrannising men with their strident demands for independence.
Is it not then our job to reduce the tyrannical power of our government and once again allow men to live, trade and interact as they see fit?
Then why does he become so tyrannical when he's questioned?
Sure, some websites capability kiss the feet your encumber, re-using it and putting ads on it – making bread from your tyrannically in the planning stages unemployed. The Culture of Sharing: Why Releasing Copyright Will Be the Smartest Thing You Do | Write to Done
Our aim was to free the public from tyrannical and illegal behaviour, to annihilate anarchy and strengthen the central government.
[133], Assyrian writers explain that: The deep and hidden reason of the tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are � - all -- not Arabs Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The Federation was a growing tyrannical power that was spreading across the Earth at an alarming rate, due to its vast military strength.
Tyrannical and repressive non-colonial regimes might be supported if they could be presented as allies against Communism, but it was not always possible to go on making excuses for them.
That power brought settlers on perilous journeys, inspired colonies to rebellion, and set our Nation against the tyrannies of the 20th century.
And Letwin was happy to defend Blunkett, saying: ‘I do not think it would be right to accuse the government of trying to tyrannise the citizen’.
Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia? BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
If not, we will be waging military campaigns against new tyrannical regimes over and over again.
The course of David's own career was held to express an unhealthy identity of tyrannical power with pedagogical authority.
They had been raised on edifying tales of Greek tyrannicides that always ended in the liberation of the city.
Tempus erit, cum Pierio tua fortior oeftro Fa&a canam: nunc tendo chelyn. fatis arma referre Aonia, et geminis fceptrum exitiale tyrannis, The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, she was tyrannized by her own image, driven to new levels of vanity in an endless, and ultimately foolish, pursuit of fame and immortality.
Therein the mighty and incomprehensible God Himself is apprehensibly contained and worshipped; therein is revealed the nature of things celestial, terrestrial, and infernal; therein are discerned the laws by which every state is administered, the offices of the celestial hierarchy are distinguished, and the tyrannies of demons described, such as neither the ideas of Plato transcend, nor the chair of Crato contained. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
But there is no virtue in accepting the small tyrannies of a recalcitrant power. Times, Sunday Times
My family has recently suffered the most inhuman treatment at the hands of a well-organized lawless body of tyrannical thieves under the leadership of a man going by the name of F. B. Yerrington, formerly of Carson City, Nevada. The Trouble With May Amelia
That is, these mounted men were regarded as tyrannical bullies, delinquents and pests.
I had my sword for company, my ally and partner in tyrannicide.
Freedom of expression is therefore, one of the very first freedoms to be curtailed when a democracy is being undermined, either as a prelude to a coup d'état or as an early step in the process of gradual tyrannization.
If not, we will be waging military campaigns against new tyrannical regimes over and over again.
The plot miscarried, only Hippias' younger brother Hipparchus was killed, and the ‘tyrannicides’ were executed.
The first was the identification of socialism with the Stalinist tyrannies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Many young men are as obstinate, and as curious in their choice, as tyrannically proud, insulting, deceitful, false-hearted, as irrefragable and peevish on the other side; Narcissus-like, Anatomy of Melancholy
In the Rabourdin bureau was a clerk who played the man of courage and audacity, professed the opinions of the Left centre, and rebelled against the tyrannies of Baudoyer as exercised upon what he called the unhappy slaves of that office. Bureaucracy
There was no way he was going to give up or moderate his tyrannical power except at the barrel of a gun.
Thus full of contradictions, unbending yet haughty, gentle yet fierce, tender and again neglectful, he by some strange art found easy entrance to the admiration and affection of women; now caressing and now tyrannizing over them according to his mood, but in every change a despot. I.4
She was too gentle to tyrannize over her playfellow, yet she had ruled him abjectly, except when in canoe, or on horse or surf-board, at which times he had taken charge and she had rendered obedience. ALOHA OE
Antifederalists feared that a powerful national government might tyrannize the people and displace the important power of self-government they associated with state government.
His objective in writing it was to defend the reputation of Dante, who, rather than according immortality to Cassius and Brutus as tyrannicides, had deemed them murderers and relegated them to the lowest circles of the Inferno.
Epist. et in deliciis, abi et oppugnationem relinque, quam flamma non extinguit; nam ab amore ipsa flamma sentit incendium: quae corporum penetratio, quae tyrannis haec? Anatomy of Melancholy
In our society it is not the tyrannical regimes with dictatorial and despotic power that destroys our freedom.
The tyrannies in these countries are home grown, and they government has supported them, rightly or wrongly, for decades.
For they say not regicide, that is, killing of a king, but tyrannicide, that is, killing of a tyrant, is lawful. Leviathan
He was brought up by a cruel and tyrannical father.
To begin with the obvious: they both depict tyrannicides.
It would be easy to make glib comparisons with various tyrannies of the past, but I don't think they'd be quite accurate.
Regarded as a major ancient source on tyranny and tyrannicide, it was the only text attributed to Plutarch known and taught during the fourteenth and much of the fifteenth century.
Himself is apprehensibly contained and worshipped; therein is revealed the nature of things celestial, terrestrial, and infernal; therein are discerned the laws by which every state is administered, the offices of the celestial hierarchy are distinguished, and the tyrannies of demons described, such as neither the ideas of Plato transcend, nor the chair of Crato contained. The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
One effect of the digital Panopticon is the loss of privacy and the threat of tyrannical social control; another effect is a rich body of data about online behavior.
The budgets usually showed deficits, and the imposts of all kinds were raised by tyrannical farmers-general. The Psychology of Revolution
But they profess to believe that informality is liberating (in spite of their tyrannical attempts to impose it). The Formal Home
This is true whether he's dealing with the tyrannically needy Louise, or the popular kids who torment them both at school.
Even if it seems they have been attacked into dormancy like a rolly-poley protectively curled, and even if this current administration were to become a force of tyrannical oppression, Faith, Hope, and Love will remain and have their way. Politico Outs the Secret Plan to Pass ObamaCare - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
And how can law students deal with their professors without knowing sic semper tyrannis? The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t:
Milton was kept from politics in his youth, not by any notion of their incompatibility with poetry; but by the more cogent arguments at their command “under whose inquisitious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.” Life of John Milton
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Let us now return to the focus of this essay and examine how the two sculptures by Donatello relate to John of Salisbury's discussions of the state and tyrannicide.
Our youth love luxury, they contradict their parents, gobble up dainties from the table, and tyrannise their teachers.
There is not a grain of evidence that primitive government was despotic and tyrannical.
The assassin fell as he sprang from the box to the stage, where he brandished his bloody dagger, yelled with terrible theatricalism, "_sic semper tyrannis_," and stalking lamely from the platform disappeared in the darkness and rode away. Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
The telephone is one of the great tyrannies of modern life.
On one hand, he invites us to laugh at a group of hopeless stumblebums tyrannised by their supposedly defenceless victim.
So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
Policemen, teachers, civil servants, owners of small family businesses—the baker, the butcher, the florist—who felt tyrannized by regulations and taxes and saw immigrants from Morocco and Turkey both as competitors (with small shops that could sell cheaper goods because they hired cheap, illegal workers) and as bad employees (unpunctual and disrespectful slackers who could not speak proper Dutch). Nomad
Could she have been saved if her mother had died years ago, suddenly, instead of lingering as a demanding, tyrannical invalid? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
In the end she left home just to escape the tyrannical rule of her mother.
How and why the play cultivates such mixed responses toward a tyrannical, regicidal, fratricidal, uxoricidal, incestuous bogey-man will occupy our attention.
Far from exclusively singling out the Nazi regime, the modern age is presented as singularly tyrannical and repressive.
Based on the Lope de Vega play Fuenteovejuna, about a Spanish village that rises against its tyrannical overlord, the ballet harks back to old peasant ballets from the previous century: cue larky drinking dances, cute lovers and comic village elders that could have come straight out of Coppélia or Don Quixote. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Laurencia
Ita cum lachrymantes inter nos vale dixissemus, et illi suavissima commemoratione illustrium virorum et sanctorum qui similiter è patria tyrannidi cesserunt, maesticiam meam non nihil levassent, media jam nocte in densissimis tenebris solus iter ingredior. "[ The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
The officers and gentlemen who are at Cawnpore, and Futtyghur, and Darunghur, and other places, by different means act very tyrannically and oppressively towards the aumils and ryots and inhabitants; and to whomsoever that requires a dustuck they give it, with their own seal affixed, and send for the aumils and punish them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
The story is autobiographical, and the tyrannical, captious, arbitrary, and selfish landowner is the author's mother, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva.
All it has done is replace one despotic tyrannical regime with another that is mildly better in some ways, and much worse in others.
a tyrannical parent
[339], Assyrian writers explain that: The deep and hidden reason of the tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are � - all -- not Arabs Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
When they lack force, tyrannical natures are characterized by simulation and their behaviour by obliqueness.
Wonder if he shouted “Sic semper tyrannis” as he lit the Man on fire…seems just a little off balance. on 31 Oct 2007 at 8:53 pm2Ned Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Burning Man Time Lapse Video
With which answer the king was so pacified, that he indeuored by pretending his fauor towards the sonne, to extenuat the tyrannicall murther of the father. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
With 429 or so tyrannids, there are more species of Tyrant Flycatchers than in any other family of birds in the world, yet the Eastern Kingbird has earned the title of tyrant of tyrants.
A central problem of socialist politics is to prevent the workers (including socialist entrepreneurs) from creating tyrannies of producers.
A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
And by the way, tyrannized people DO write about being trapped in language-games, or have you never read an East European novel?
The Lombards were called avaricious, vicious and cowardly; the Romans, seditious, turbulent and slanderous; the Sicilians, tyrannical and cruel; the inhabitants of The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
Together, they fuel what Page DuBois calls ‘an allegorical, utopian call for tyrannicide in the name of postcapitalist, postpatriarchal future.’
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The more people turn to and demand government does what they want, the more they become wards of the state, serfs working on the government's estate and squabbling over the tiny things they're given by a tyrannical state who will allow no freedom that might lead to what they define as inequality or unfairness. Word Around the Net
Dio lived through turbulent times: he and his fellow senators quailed before tyrannical emperors and lamented the rise of men they regarded as upstarts, and in Pannonia he grappled with the problem of military indiscipline.
Our youth love luxury, they show disrespect for the elders, they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties from the table and tyrannise their teachers.
North Korea remained belligerent despite Mr Obama's plea to tyrannies to "unclench your fist".
The closest it comes to that, perhaps, is Marsilius of Padua's Defensor Pacis, where a defense of tyrannicide is justified as an act to restore civil society to naturally peaceful relations, not to change or revolutionize it.
But one suspects that their looted statue of the Athenian tyrannicides was not on public view at Susa.
The invasion was preceded by a concerted press campaign demonising the Spanish for their tyrannical and brutal colonial rule.
We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Vitter, DeMint, et al: time to go Patrick Henry on Obama’s assault on conservatives - E_Pluribus_Unum’s blog - RedState
It knows too well that hierocracies have not been shining examples of justice among the aristocracies, monarchies, democracies, plutocracies, race tyrannies and class rules which have oppressed mankind.
And we especially condemn and in God's name execrate those who not only omit both forms but also quite autocratically [tyrannically] prohibit, condemn, and blaspheme them as heresy, and so exalt themselves against and above Christ, our Lord and God The Smalcald Articles
I want our governments to swiftly enable countries that have been tyrannies to become democracies, and to act in collapsed states to prevent genocide.
He himself admires Peter the Great, the legendary but tyrannical transformer of 18th-century Russia.
Diplomatic pressure and economic sanctions, for example, are useful means of engagement with tyrannical regimes.
All artists are androgynous; in Chopin the feminine often prevails, but it must be noted that this quality is a distinguishing sign of masculine lyric genius, for when he unbends, coquets and makes graceful confessions or whimpers in lyric loveliness at fate, then his mother's sex peeps out, a picture of the capricious, beautiful tyrannical Polish woman. Chopin : the Man and His Music
He is not doing what other tyrannies do and covering up. Times, Sunday Times
Soon after his death, propagandists began to construct a myth of Scrope as a latter-day Thomas Becket, martyred for his exposure of Henry IV's perjury, regicide and tyrannical rule.
The Tyrannicides were even cited as the liberators of Athens in drinking songs.
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Why were the tyrannicides honoured in the first place?
So private tyrannies become tyrannical by buying up some of the trade policies of democratic governments.
It is a sad fact that from early childhood we are tyrannised by the moral myth that it is right, proper and good to leap out of bed the moment we wake in order to set about some useful work as quickly and cheerfully as possible.
You, my lord, are the most arrogant, overbearing, high-handed, tyrannical, dictatorial despot it has ever been my misfortune to meet. DEVIL'S BRIDE
If pluralism is a balance, the rise of binary oppositions upsets the balance in either an "anarchical" (in the bad sense) or tyrannical direction. Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats
Most tyrannies have scarcely cracked an inch. Times, Sunday Times
Though I wouldn't have been able to express it at the time, this story of the shy, ungraceful daughter tyrannized by a contemptuous father struck home, struck a chord in my home.
What Burke argued passionately against, by contrast, was the French Revolution and Jacobin thinking, which he saw as expressing an unhistorical, tyrannical spirit and an importunate desire for power.
But was Sic semper tyrannis Virginia's motto in the home timeline, too? The Disunited States of America
The tradition-bound father is reserved and tyrannical at home, but when he is away from home at night, he is a libertine - drinking and womanizing.
Carnificinam exercent, one saith they tyrannise over men's consciences more than any other tormentors whatsoever, partly for their commodity and gain; Religionem enim omnium abusus (as [6405] Postellus holds), quaestus scilicet sacrificum in causa est: for sovereignty, credit, to maintain their state and reputation, out of ambition and avarice, which are their chief supporters: what have they not made the common people believe? Anatomy of Melancholy
Their orators grew magniloquent over its tyrannical oppression; the Southern press overflowed with that marvellous exuberance of diatribe of which they are the acknowledged masters -- to all of which the complaisant North gave a ready and subservient concurrence, until the very name reeked in the public mind with infamous associations and degrading ideas. Bricks without Straw A Novel
Anne had told me that Dominic had become cruel and tyrannical.
The Grand Duke, Peter Leopold, the practical, economical, priest-hating, paternally-meddlesome, bustlingly and tyrannically-reforming son of Maria Theresa, was not the man to console so mediæval and antiquated and unphilosophical a thing as a Stuart. The Countess of Albany
Modo suadent Theologos, summa ignoratione versari, veras scientias admittere nolle, et tyrannidem exercere, ut eos falsis dogmatibus, superstitionibus, et religione Catholica, detineant. Anatomy of Melancholy
In each of these cases of revolution, the pendulum swung back to different points of reaction-either to terrible tyrannies or to parliamentary democracies every bit as feeble as before.
The course of his own career was held to express an unhealthy identity of tyrannical power with pedagogical authority.
The unsuppressed liberty of spirit evident throughout the poems is a tonic and a consolation no matter what tyrannies life imposes.
Our grandparents and parents fought tyrannies that threatened the freedom of the world. The Sun
Well I do think it's rather tyrannising us at the moment, certainly.
The diplomats report the tyrannical tendencies of the junta but also point out many problems with the "sclerotic" leadership of a democratic opposition and its undemocratic ways. Thestar.com - Home Page
Such estates were entrusted to bailiffs who all too often were dishonest and tyrannical.
Tyrannies the world over find it impossible to take. Times, Sunday Times
It is the democratic left which should be most enraged by the history of that tyrannical empire and by the good men and women who compromised the cause by sticking with it.
You, my lord, are the most arrogant, overbearing, high-handed, tyrannical, dictatorial despot it has ever been my misfortune to meet. DEVIL'S BRIDE
All normal human emotions atrophy except one, the instinct for self-preservation and, allied to it, the itch to tyrannise.
Quod siquis dicat, Ergone populus tyrannicae crudelitati & furori jugulum semper praebebit? Second Treatise of Civil Government
Moreover, tyrannicide is intrinsically interesting, involving as it does political assassination or attempted assassination.
She believes we are falling for a false kind of moral equivalence between democratic societies and tyrannies.
The man's search for a tyrannical fatherland never ends!
For instance, while he states that there are instances when tyrannicide is justified (for example against tyrannical usurpers), killing a prince presumed to be a tyrant is forbidden if ‘the prince is an absolute sovereign.’
Although Judith was a new symbol to Florence, John of Salisbury's citation of her as a paradigmatic tyrannicide made the Old Testament heroine a second exemplar.
A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
No torture of body like unto it, Siculi non invenere tyranni majus tormentum, no strappadoes, hot irons, Phalaris 'bulls, Anatomy of Melancholy
A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
Certainly some tyrannies have arisen in nations where press freedom existed.
The historian, by a simple stroke, has drawn a graphic picture of an Oriental despot, wallowing with his favorite in sensual enjoyments, while his tyrannical cruelties were rending the hearts and homes of thousands of his subjects. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Much of these connections, as well as speculation, were pieced together based on the discovery of Rózsa-Flores 'blog [hu/es/en] called “Sic semper tyrannis” and often translated to “Death to Tyrants.” Global Voices in English » Bolivia: Piecing Together the Life of an Accused Terrorist
He is a tyrannical, dogmatic and highly narcissistic dictator who has no intentions of going down quietly.
What will the other states who tyrannise their people, the terrorists who threaten our existence, what will they take from that?
I am not saying it to you simply to tyrannise you, if I am wrong, I want to know where I am wrong.
She proceeded to exploit her ill health to become the most feared of all chronic suffers, an ill-natured and tyrannical invalid.
What Burke argued passionately against, by contrast, was the French Revolution and Jacobin thinking, which he saw as expressing an unhistorical, tyrannical spirit and an importunate desire for power.
It is tyrannical because, while it asserts a global monopoly of violence, we cannot peacefully remove and replace it.
The neighbours of tyrannies would be overwhelmed. Times, Sunday Times
Ranked against him are the hideous shades of the Inquisition and directly in his path is his unloving, tyrannical father, the King.
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Those, indeed, who rule for the public good, are true examples and specimens of his beneficence, while those who domineer unjustly and tyrannically are raised up by him to punish the people for their iniquity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Revolution (?) in Kyrgyzstan
As a political strategy there are plenty of reasons not to get too enthusiastic about tyrannicide.
Cum liberum quendam uirum suppliciis se tyrannus adacturum putaret, ut aduersum se factae coniurationis conscios proderet, linguam ille momordit atque abscidit et in os tyranni saeuientis abiecit; ita cruciatus, quos putabat tyrannus materiam crudelitatis, uir sapiens fecit esse uirtutis. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
John contended that tyrannicide was a duty if it set people free for the service of God.
Not a single voice among them was raised in protest against this tyrannical machtpolitik: not that night, not the next day, not ever. Undefined
Could she have been saved if her mother had died years ago, suddenly, instead of lingering as a demanding, tyrannical invalid? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
What took over instead was private tyrannies, basically, corporate systems, which play the role of controlling opinion and attitudes, not taking orders from the government, but closely linked to it, of course.
Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. Broke
Much of these connections, as well as speculation, were pieced together based on the discovery of Rózsa-Flores 'blog [hu/es/en] called “Sic semper tyrannis” and often translated to “Death to Tyrants.” Global Voices in English » Bolivia: Piecing Together the Life of an Accused Terrorist
The complete right to organize for political ends guards against the danger that majorities might impose tyrannical legislation.
When the people were attacked, they would rally behind their dear leader, no matter how tyrannical or cruel he was.
Criticize us if you will for the speed and ferocity of the response to Zumbo, but “sic semper tyrannis” and be instructed by it. Friendly Fire: Gun Nuts Go Full-Auto on One of Their Own « Lean Left
The ‘rule of law’ would give way to a ‘rule of men’ who tyrannized their wives and their compatriots.
But this isn't just tyrannical naysaying; for once you and your local despots should be on the same page: everyone wants to see this particular dream come to fruition.
He has become a student of one of the most tyrannical leaders in history.
Elizabeth I called the attempted invasion of England a ‘tyrannical, proud and brainsick attempt’.
Absolutist tyrannies are far more likely than democracies to breed absolutist tyrannical resistance groups willing to do anything to fight back.
Such a paideutike energeia, as Theodoret terms it, must be recognized in the poimainein; which our "Thou shalt rule," and the Latin "reges," only imperfectly give back; as, in regard of the Latin, Hilary (in Ps. ii.) urged long ago: "Reges eos in virga ferrea; quanquam ipsum reges non tyrannicum neque injustum sit, sed ex aequitatis ac moderationis arbitrio regimen rationale demonstret, tamen molliorem adhuc regentis affectum proprietas, Graeca significat. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
A black or malign disposition, an effeminate disposition; an hard inexorable disposition, a wild inhuman disposition, a sheepish disposition, a childish disposition; a blockish, a false, a scurril, a fraudulent, a tyrannical: what then? Meditations
Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
Some of these tyrannies have moved beyond tyrannising their own people to threatening their neighbours and their regions.
her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her
The movie now takes on a starkly different aesthetic as it turns its focus to blood feuds, family honour, and tyrannical patriarchy.
Not that their rule was considered tyrannical or arbitrary.
Without him we would understand ourselves less and be less brave against tyrannies. Times, Sunday Times
Every time Duritz tyrannizes her, Janet responds with amusing riffs.
It is the right to engage in unpopular speech -- speech challenging the status quo, which the angry mob or the tyrannical government would be tempted to suppress -- that the First Amendment protects for all of us. Taylor Asen: How a Gay Man's Harmless Political Expression May Lead to Prison Time
Tyrants should be left free to tyrannise their own people
To which he answered, Thou sayest it; that is, "It is as thou sayest, that I am entitled to the government of the Jewish nation; but in rivalship with the scribes and Pharisees, who tyrannize over them in matters of religion, not in rivalship with Caesar, whose government relates only to their civil interests. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
And here is the Christian who struggles with his participation in an act of tyrannicide.
The entire people are slaves owned by the Sultan and these Datos, who exercise over the unfortunate wretches the worst species of tyrannical power; for as these nobles or _reguli_ are subject to no law but there own caprice, if any slave displeases his master, he can, without the slightest fear of having to give any account of the circumstance to a living soul, draw his kris, and murder the slave. Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850
Pyrrhus did not explode in a tyrannic tantrum. On the contrary, among his friends he commended Fabricius.
But I'll water't wi 'the blude of usurping tyrannie, English Songs and Ballads
It doesn't have any responsibility to make war to get rid of somebody who tyrannizes his own people.
That is what the tyrannies of the twentieth century had proven - that ultramundane humanism is inevitably inhuman humanism.
The problem is not simply that we allow arms suppliers to the poor and tyrannical to operate in this country; it is much worse.

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