How To Use Tyrannize In A Sentence

  • His enemies-called the boyars-wanted the earth divided into several countries, allowing each a nation to tyrannize ruthlessly, with the terrible retaining the power to rubber-stamp their rulings and little else. An East Wind Coming
  • 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
  • The ‘rule of law’ would give way to a ‘rule of men’ who tyrannized their wives and their compatriots.
  • her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her
  • Every time Duritz tyrannizes her, Janet responds with amusing riffs.
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  • 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)
  • It doesn't have any responsibility to make war to get rid of somebody who tyrannizes his own people.
  • No hungry person ever pined for deconstruction; no tyrannised person ever felt they were trapped in a language game.
  • A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
  • I am not saying it to you simply to tyrannise you, if I am wrong, I want to know where I am wrong.
  • The medieval age was tyrannized by a demand for spiritual perfectionism, making it hard to accomplish anything practical.
  • The first of these two parts depicts a local hood who tyrannizes a family, until, having finally had enough, the family stands in unison against him.
  • The next question he had for me concerned who ‘they’ were and why I was allowing them to tyrannize me.
  • Alcibiades raves (saith [3404] Maximus Tyrius) and is sick, his furious desires carry him from Lyceus to the pleading place, thence to the sea, so into Sicily, thence to Lacedaemon, thence to Persia, thence to Samos, then again to Athens; Critias tyranniseth over all the city; Sardanapalus is lovesick; these men are ill-affected all, and can never be cured, till their minds be otherwise qualified. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • You have security, and no landlord could tyrannise you.
  • Armed groups use their power to tyrannise over civilians.
  • If this refusal is the result of an offended sensibility, you cannot exert yourself too warmly in its consolation; even if it is from pride, it has a just claim to your concessions, since she thinks you have injured it; yet pause before you act, may it not be merely from a confidence of power that loves to tyrannize over its slaves, by playing with their chains? or a lurking spirit of coquetry, that desires to regain the liberty of trifling with some new Sir Sedley Clarendel? or, perhaps, with Sir Sedley himself? ' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • One member of each dyad will be the tyrant, and the other will be the tyrannized.
  • And over 12 years he mocked the UN, while he tyrannised and impoverished his own people.
  • A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
  • 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
  • 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’.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Our youth love luxury, they contradict their parents, gobble up dainties from the table, and tyrannise their teachers.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • And by the way, tyrannized people DO write about being trapped in language-games, or have you never read an East European novel?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • All normal human emotions atrophy except one, the instinct for self-preservation and, allied to it, the itch to tyrannise.
  • A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
  • A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
  • What will the other states who tyrannise their people, the terrorists who threaten our existence, what will they take from that?

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