tyranny

How To Use tyranny In A Sentence

• His theory was that animals were the ‘slaves of man’ and he spoke of the ‘tyranny of humans over non-human animals.’
• People always think that living in a tyranny is a cohesive experience. The Fiction of Life
• In recent decades, though, especially sine the end of Soviet tyranny, the safe-haven idea has lost cogency like an unwound watch running down.
• I'm the sole victim of Mother's tyranny.
• Wherever tyranny, oppression and brutality have threatened the free world, our two countries have stood for the triumph of good over evil.
• French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to seven French soldiers killed last week in Afghanistan, saying they fought in a just war against what he called the "tyranny" of the Taliban movement. Sarkozy: French Troops Killed in Afghanistan Fought Taliban's 'Tyranny'
• You'd say what seems to be on the rise is not art or science, but religion and the medievalism of superstition and the tyranny of who owns whose soul and the soul of what nation.
• No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere than it exercises, even unintentionally, an insupportable tyranny.
• Ownership of small property was the safeguard against both government tyranny and economic oppression.
• No one is urged to dwell on the fact that the day's fireworks displays are symbolic of an armed revolution against tyranny and colonialism.