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.

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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.
Do what he will, let God take order with it; this leadeth kings to atheism, let them do what they please, and to take God in their own hand: in regard of laws, they teach nothing to kings but tyranny: and in regard of government, they teach a king to take an arbitrary power to himself, to do what he pleaseth without controlment. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
The best way to carry out this enormous project is to focus on personal, family and neighborhood levels; several GOLA units may assign to themselves the task of examining whether remote villages and hamlets have been taken in charge by locally established GOLA units; if not, GOLA units established by Oromos in big cities must take care of the remote villages´ populations and of their experience of the Abyssinian tyranny. American Chronicle
Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants, but the tyranny of masters.
We implore you to acknowledge that the Department of Justice cannot reasonably be a party to such tyranny.
And without freedom, order becomes only another name for tyranny.
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
Hast thou forgotten thine arrogance and insolence and tyranny, and thy disregarding the due of goodfellowship and thy refusing to be advised by what the poet saith? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Tocqueville wrote in the 1830s of the inevitability of democracy, but warned against ‘the dangers of a tyranny of the majority’.
The history of the present raisin bran is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Cereals. Waldo Jaquith - Into every marriage a few raisins may fall.
Nowhere was it tried - and I mean real socialism, not welfare statism - where tyranny, misery, poverty, fear and oppression failed to follow.
If this force is hijacked by the likes of this man and those who vilify trade unionists emerging from the rubble of a tyranny, then there really is no hope at all.
Yet his blithe rejection of free speech is a formula for tyranny.
The period in force is to be for the duration necessary forOUR military of all OUR nations to depose the puny yes-men'encharged 'with our military' chains of command 'to carry out the orders ofthe puppets put in position to rule all our countries for the benefit of the international vermin who install and pay them and thus exercise their tyranny over us all. ATTENTION! WE DEMAND MARTIAL LAW!
Any political system refusing to allow dissent becomes a tyranny.
This regime is a rare example of a tyranny that has been consistently, constantly opposed by the United States.
The second mechanism by which ethnic pluralism theoretically limits democracy is by tyranny of the majority.
One hundred years ago today, your forefathers declared independence from the tyranny of the rule of my forefathers.
The first 45 years since Independence were marked by terror and tyranny.
Would my partner and I be freed from the tyranny of having to rise early to provide a nutritious packed lunch for our daughter?
The emphasis on naturalness translates into a way of life characterized by simplicity, calmness, and freedom from the tyranny of desire (e.g., Laozi
So in the seventeenth century the writers, exhausted by the mental effort of the Renaissance and prevented by the tyranny of kings and the domination of the church from occupying themselves with the great issues of life, turned their minds to gongorism, concettism and such-like toys. The Summing Up
It was in vain to argue the tyranny of some husbands, when he could turn upon us the follies of some wives; and that wives and daughters were never more faulty, more undomestic, than at present; and when we were before a judge, who, though he could not be absolutely unpolite, would not flatter us, nor spare our foibles. Sir Charles Grandison
The ode is the trumpet of a prophecy which Shelley uttered on a grand scale in Prometheus Unbound: the death of tyranny and the rebirth of freedom. The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology
Having lost his northern provinces, he does not hide his ambition to re-establish his gruesome tyranny over them.
As teachers were hauled before Judge Fisher they denounced the school authorities for tyranny and deception and said they were willing to go to jail to defend their rights.
Faithful to his instincts of petty tyranny, the Cæsar kept the praefect of Rome kneeling before him for close on half an hour; all this while volleys of vituperations poured from his mouth against all traitors in general, and more especially against the praefect whom he accused of selling his services only in order to gain his own ends. "Unto Caesar"
Garcia Maquez's magic realism sheds a light on tyranny that is no less illuminating for its kaleidoscopic nature; Toni Morrison's opulent, curvaceous sentences give us a taste of the poison of racism, as do J.M. Coetzee's angularities. Moral Fiction
And as a form of social protest against autocracy and political tyranny, there is no medium that can surpass cartoons.
This, of course, would be the excess of tyranny and the worst wickedness in government, as has been shown above.a The dangers, then, arising from a polyarchy are more to be guarded against than those arising from a monarchy. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
The basic elements of this perspective are a strong liberal commitment to human rights, solidarity with the oppressed, and a firm stand against fascism, totalitarianism and tyranny.
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.
For though my buns are reeking of dingleberry warfare, thou Charmin frees my buns from tyranny. Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.
The attempt of Tyndaridas to establish a tyranny led to the introduction of petalism, similar to Athenian ostracism. 466
Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
It was one of the few years in recent US history that saw a decline in rightist tyranny.
In truth, he has written as easily about love as he has about tyranny, as nimbly about rabid dictators as about powerless artists; he has given us "Vargas Llosa light," in delightfully erotic (thinly veiled autobiographical) stories, and "Vargas Llosa dark," in elaborately researched and profoundly illuminating historical novels. The power of Mario Vargas Llosa's words led the political writer to Nobel Prize
For it came into a world previously marked by despotism, by tyranny, by totalitarian control.
He complains that various national peculiarities are being steamrollered by the tyranny of a new ‘international imperialism’.
But when forced conscription into the military becomes inevasible, I expect young people, at least those able to comprehend the significance of their place in history, to take a stand against the tyranny of war forces of evil cryptically embedded within the polity of a nation having gone wrong. Archive 2006-06-01
There was as yet no consensus on how best to overcome the Autarch's tyranny.
It is still at that stage and of course is a communist tyranny still.
'To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Froomkin: A Blow Against Tyranny
In Spain, there are few or no schools in the villages and small towns, that would have the effect of releasing the minds of the natives from monkish tyranny, which at present influences their principles, and biasses their choice, with regard to political, and indeed almost all other pursuits. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
Generations of poetry lovers were brought up without any knowledge that Shelley's radical opposition to all tyranny and oppression was central to his art and his life.
Our American democracy has reached a nadir and we are experiencing a constitutional crisis and threat to the rule of law this democracywas founded ondue to the gross incompetence, fraudand 'tyranny by the decider 'GWBush and his neo-con/big oil cabal ... we are on the precipice of watching our very democracy and republic as we know it crumble .. Obama's Speech Accomplishes More Than It Appears
Justice will prevail over tyranny.
And that fired her sense of injustice, and so she became an anarchist at that time, and she was, as we ` ve already said, associated with Berkman (ph), the would-be assassinator of Henry Clay Frick (ph), and she was this sort of fire-eating orator and rhetorician who went around the country giving these speeches about how, you know, you should resist tyranny. Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt�s America
Instead of opposing every civic expectation of religious faith, they might join religious activists in wielding faith as a counterweight to corporate tyranny.
Now the human rights dilemmas of the twenty-first century proceed more from anarchy than from tyranny.
Banning hunting is Aristotle's tyranny of democracy and parliamentary dictatorship.
Some believe that the only solution for government in parts of the world is for there to be tyranny or despotism.
The notion of checks and balances as a safeguard against tyranny is something that I think can have applicability all around the world.
Her emotional intensity is experienced by the other characters as a tyranny from which they must escape if they are to survive.
Many suppose that tyranny and anarchy are at opposite ends of a linear spectrum.
The shadow of this tyranny will soon be overpast; and when “La Curee” and Letters to Dead Authors
To modern ears, the scientific democrats' program may sound as deeply authoritarian as the intellectual tyranny they feared.
As freeborn colonial Englishmen, this amounted to tyranny and was not an acceptable obligation for them to have to endure. It’s Patriots’ Day
Almost any country that isn't a tyranny I could cope with - as long as I can live in the biggest city they've got.
Tyranny - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) Sound Politics: Absence of Justice
If there is anything worse than schools preserved in the formaldehyde of colonialism, it is the tyranny of Indian babudom. HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines
Robin Hood and his band of outlaws fight back against the tyranny of Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
The authors seem to accept it as axiomatic that the masses who suffer under tyranny are necessarily pro-American.
When the people fear the government there is tyranny. "shovelhead says: Ron Paul Wins! | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul - Blog
We forget that when people are given a choice between freedom and tyranny, they will choose freedom.
A universal franchise and limited government are better than monarchy or tyranny.
She has explored the isles of the ocean for objects of commiseration; but, amazing stupidity! she can gaze without emotion on a multitude of miserable beings at home, large enough to constitute a nation of freemen, whom tyranny has heathenized by law. William Lloyd Garrison
Although it was clearly a tyranny, the government did not officially object to the political freedoms set forth in the Declaration.
Knox preached on her behalf, and threatened popery and tyranny should Mary enforce her claim.
All this is of his craft and wiliness: wherefore do thou betake thyself to equity and fair dealing and leave frowardness and tyranny; and thou shalt fare all the better for it. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The government cannot profess a commitment to upholding and protecting human rights when, on the international stage, we go out of our way to temporise with tyranny. ANC Daily News Briefing
The ending of tyranny and the extension of democracy are essential parts of any transformative programme for Africa.
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
A consistent theme in Charles's writings is his belief in human freedom - and his abhorrence for violence and tyranny.
The fact is that every Christian government that preceded them thought that Christianity implied tyranny, despotism, and the oppression of non-Christians.
That a film can be made about him speaks to how far this country has come in the 25 years since his bloody tyranny.
I believe that the only way to counter both state and private tyranny is through social democracy.
At a minimum it rules out both anarchy and tyranny.
Socrates gave the first cry for free speech, but only his own right freely to express truth unimpeded by the tyranny of the majority as represented by the Athenian demos.
Justice will prevail over tyranny.
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.
The tyranny of custom, it is true, compels your friend and myself to dress peculiarly, but I assure you nothing could be finer than the way that the olive green of your coat melts in the delicate yellow of your cravat, or the pearl gray of your trousers blends with the bright blue of your waistcoat, and lends additional brilliancy to that massive oroide watch-chain which you wear. Drift from Two Shores
Why we as a nation, have been titrated, which is the gradual increasing of dosage, pressure, and propaganda, till the desired effect – an inured and compliant society – have willingly bequeathed away our autonomy of self-government, embraced the genesis of tyranny, and begin our seemingly inexorable march towards dictatorship. Democracy Interrupted
The system of Egba 'clanship' is a favourite, sometimes an engrossing, topic for invective with the local press, who characterise this worst species of 'trades-union,' founded upon intimidation and something worse, as the 'Aku tyranny' and the 'Aku To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
There are satiric songs mocking meanness and tyranny, songs in praise of drink and drinkers, while other pieces celebrate heroic feats of valour or of sport.
Freedom from tyranny is a principle we should always defend.
Hollywood films depicted the war in Europe in particular as a struggle against fascist tyranny fought by soldiers and sailors imbued with democratic sensibilities.
The doom-mongers say this is just another technological tyranny.
As a nation, we can hold our heads high for the role we played in defeating the Nazis and the tyranny of the Axis powers.
And when Strauss is mentioned in the press, he is typically described as a great defender of liberal democracy against totalitarian tyranny.
The public bar bores have finally declared a socialist breakaway republic from the tyranny of the lounge lizards.
They came to America to escape political tyranny.
Wherever tyranny, oppression and brutality have threatened the free world, our two countries have stood for the triumph of good over evil.
Her plays are not theatre, rather "texts to be spoken", liberated from the tyranny of dramatical roles. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 - Presentation Speech
In fact it was not until May 1689 that the public responded in any way to the perceived tyranny.
She understood that if a ruler cannot govern herself, she will not be able to govern others, and the result will be tyranny.
But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
It is a doctrine of legalized favoritism that must, by its very nature, lead to dissension, corruption and tyranny.
Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.
Anyway, indefinite detention without any review is worse than just killing: To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must once convey the alarm of tyranny thoroughout the whole kingdom. The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question
‘The liberty to criticize and express dissentient views has long been thought to be a safeguard against state tyranny and corruption.’
EU critics called the latest draft a blue print for tyranny that would lead to a European superstate.
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the Honour of Parliament depraved, the Writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. Religio Medici
The German law is wider, as it refers to persecution under National Socialism or any other form of despotism or tyranny.
Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
Unequivocal evidence, it was said, had been obtained of the liberticide intentions of Great Britain; and only the successes of freedom against tyranny, the triumphs of their magnanimous French brethren over slaves, had been the means of once more guaranteeing the independence of this country. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
The importance of staging the show is that the problems of inequality, of tyranny and injustice still exist.
It was, and is, a final check on tyranny, government tyranny.
If equality means entitlement to an equal share of the profits of economic tyranny, it is irreconcilable with liberation.
Has the relentless Necessity of Comte erected its huge mill on this continent, to grimly grind out the annual quantity of patriotism, tyranny, noble self-abnegation, or Machiavelism, in the prescribed, invariable ratio of "Sociology? Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
Cathari, Poor Men of Lyons, Lombards, Albigenses, Waldenses, Vaudois, etc. The name Waldenses and Albigenses have frequently been loosely applied to all the bands of people that passed under various titles in different countries and that opposed the doctrines and ecclesiastical tyranny of Rome. The Revelation Explained
The two major parties use the tyranny of their majority to put their own people - their own stooges - on the commission, to make sure that they queer the pitch in their own favour.
Instead, after a reprieve in 1833, the central government engaged in more and more trade protectionism and centralized tyranny, which helped lead to war.
The mirthless tyranny of comedy has taken over travel documentaries. Times, Sunday Times
Directed by Lewis Milestone, it populates a Norwegian fishing village with several of Hollywood 's finest actors — Walter Huston, Ruth Gordon, Ann Sheridan, Judith Anderson and Morris Carnovsky — all coping differently with German tyranny. Five Flynn Flicks From the War Years
Most coaches are volunteers and the tyranny of distance often deters people from attending this type of course.
Although they did not deny the legality of seignorial property outright, the Physiocrats undercut its legitimacy by representing seignorial rights as the product of the lords 'historic violence and tyranny over the peasantry. Food That Tastes Good and is Good For You, Too
The purpose of the two-thirds vote requirement for local bonds is to protect property owners from renter tyranny.
There was as yet no consensus on how best to overcome the Autarch's tyranny.
But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. Waverley — Volume 1
Gorky was often the victim of his grandfather's tyranny.
An inclination to tyranny has seldom been so readily exposed by a public figure.
More than that, he seeks to take the debate inside the movement forward by setting out a vision of the alternative to the current tyranny of the big corporations.
U.S. juries have a proud and heroic tradition of standing up to tyranny and saying no to oppressive, unjust, or misapplied laws.
Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet.
Constrained by the tyranny of terrain, ground forces operate in a world of friction and position.
I'm the sole victim of Mother's tyranny.
What about the protests against tyranny in Bahrain, not sectarian uprest, as the US will have the simple-minded think and the pathetic anti-Iranian propaganda. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Sam missed his parents, not just because they might free him from Ellimere's tyranny. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
An autocracy or a tyranny is a far simpler form of social and political organization than a democracy. Is Democracy Outworn
Now the king had a brother, whom he had imprisoned in that pit of old time, and he had died there; but the folk of the realm deemed him still alive, and when his durance grew long, the courtiers of the king used to talk of this and of the tyranny of their liege Lord, and the bruit spread abroad that the sovran was a tyrant, so they fell upon him one day and slew him. Arabian nights. English
The servants of this ideology seek tyranny.
For the road the dictatorship is now taking, which indeed offers it the only possible hope of even a passable economic success, is the barren, heartless, unspiritual, materialistic tyranny of machine-like "industrialism" which the I.W. W. represents. The Red Conspiracy
Was this association with tyranny and treachery the cause of Socrates' trial and conviction?
First, the secular, often state-capitalist, modernizing projects of the elites in the region became stalled in corruption, tyranny and cultural stagnation.
Corruption and tyranny both hide in irrelevant public verbiage.
But both Bonaparte and his Minister in the affairs of the Church, Portalis, refused the introduction of what they called a tyranny on the conscience. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
Meanwhile the tyranny of the duke's lieutenant Peter von Hagenbach, who was established at Ferrette as governor (_grand bailli_ or _Landvogt_) of Upper Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Ours must be that first painful step of open and courageous defiance against an arrogant and insolent tyranny.
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
Corruption and tyranny both hide in irrelevant public verbiage.
Mounted directly upon the wall, they escape into the space of the viewer, unconstricted by the tyranny of the framing edge.
Discontent with the laws, and the extortions and petty tyranny of forest officials, ensured that the forest became a major political issue in John's reign.
In this sense the novel is the long-delayed answer of the lower classes to the courtly pastourelle… It is a protest, democratic and sentimental at once, against the courtly love codes and the sexual tyranny which they disguised.
This film seems to be making a statement about the tyranny of the majority and how those who are considered different are ostracised.
Figuring the outlaw as the martyred victim of both tyranny from without and treachery from within, oral tradition solicits sympathy and even pity for the people's hero.
Republicans are used tyrants, just lying leftovers from the Bush tyranny. Think Progress » Rep. Patrick McHenry proposes replacing Grant with Reagan on the $50 bill.
They are poor, numerous, and pregnant; if they work, it is to little purpose; their religions span a simple spectrum from witchcraft to wrath, and their societies alternate between tyranny and chaos; they beat their wives, scarify their daughters, and occasionally eat their enemies; they have never read (if they can read) a book that was not holy, or heard a piece of music unrelated to copulation. Dan Agin: Michelle Obama and the Poison of National Review
How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?
Halford Mackinder, the turn-of-the-20th-century father of modern geography, stated that provincialism is very useful, since it prevents the tyranny of the wider, geographical majority. Why I Love Al Jazeera
Too, a tyranny can rise more easily by shutting up a thousand people than a million, and that's a reason to stand up and speak out.
Under Stalin's tyranny, the doctrine was employed as a pretext for the persecution and silencing of nonconformist writers.
When the Gaelic League decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory, it attorned to this tyranny. Irish Books and Irish People
But the reasons brought to bear against suicide by the priests of monotheistic, that is of Jewish religions, and by those philosophers who adapt themselves to it, are weak sophisms easily contradicted. 20 Hume has furnished the most thorough refutation of them in his Essay on Suicide, which did not appear until after his death, and was immediately suppressed by the shameful bigotry and gross ecclesiastical tyranny existing in Essays of Schopenhauer
You would find faith and righteousness arrayed against the forces of darkness and ignorance, tyranny and disbelief.
As the Puritan's would say, ‘By his own tyranny, the king unthrones himself.’
He thought that if this system crumbled then anarchy and tyranny would prevail.
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
The reign of George the First, was a continual effort of the constitutional spirit against the remnants of papistry and tyranny, which still adhered to the government of England. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
Cynics will say that it will go underground, but I choose to believe that the US Congress has succeeded in shutting down the ultra-panoptic Total Information Awareness program — the scheme to protect Americans from tyranny through total dataveillance of our every move. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Congress Nixes Total Information Awareness
Johnson peppered Swing with demands for background information about the Imperial Valley, “particularly ... the hold of the banks and the tyranny of those who hold the mortgages, the newspaper ownership, the Chandler overlordship, etc.” Colossus
With the Arab world convulsed by the unrest in Tunisia and Egypt and with the acute danger that such instability will result in the region lurching even further into Islamic theocratic tyranny, the British Foreign Secretary's response is — to bash Israel. Notable
Some believe that the only solution for government in parts of the world is for there to be tyranny or despotism.
And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.
It was he, too, who laid before Lady Southdown the great advantages which might occur from an intimacy between her family and Miss Crawley, advantages both worldly and spiritual, he said: for Miss Crawley was now quite alone; the monstrous dissipation and alliance of his brother Rawdon had estranged her affections from that reprobate young man; the greedy tyranny and avarice of Mrs. Bute Crawley had caused the old lady to revolt against the exorbitant pretensions of that part of the family; and though he himself had held off all his life from cultivating Miss Crawleys friendship, with perhaps an improper pride, he thought now that every becoming means should be taken, both to save her soul from perdition, and to secure her fortune to himself as the head of the house of Crawley. XXXIII. In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious about Her
An armed people could protect themselves and their neighbors against crime and their liberties against tyranny.
There be other names of government in the histories and books of policy; as tyranny and oligarchy; but they are not the names of other forms of government, but of the same forms misliked. Leviathan
In that other abandoned Europe beyond Vienna tyranny, pogroms and ethnic cleansing would have continued.
The manufacture seems to have flourished; but Foggini, the Roman editor, (p. 26,) is at a loss to determine whether this picture was an original or a copy.] 54 See the tyranny of Phocas and the elevation of Heraclius, in Chron. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Britain, France and the other ‘democratic’ imperialist powers were horrified that people had done away with tyranny and rule by bosses and landlords.
Under this mild phrase, _to admonish_, was concealed a cruel exercise of tyranny -- it meant to warn a man that he was suspected of treason, and that he had better relinquish the exercise of his burghership. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
The only force powerful enough to stop the rise of tyranny and terror and replace hatred with hope is the force of human freedom.
To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom. The Most Ignominious Chapter of Our History : Law is Cool
In this case, I imagine he'll rant and rave against the tyranny of time. A RODENT OF DOUBT
In the eyes of many people the Soviet troops brought about the end of one bloody tyranny, a Nazi one, and the start of another, a Stalinist one.
People who join citizen militias often believe the government is out of control and armed citizens are needed to prevent federal tyranny.
General Bate was unwilling to exacerbate local perceptions of military tyranny.
But what you deny fruitlessly is the active part you took in the conflict that ensued between the patriots and the satellites of tyranny; it is your zeal and ardour in serving the enemies of the people, in supplying them with cartridges, which you took pains to bite, because they were directed against patriots and intended to mow them down; it is the desire you have publicly expressed that victory should belong to the power and partisans of your brother, and the encouragement of all kinds which you have given to the murderers of your country. The Ruin of a Princess
4 = The fight to extend democracy to peoples remaining under tyranny or in anarchic failed states Archive 2004-09-26
They all despaired of obtaining it from the coalesced powers, whilst they had a gang of professed regicides at their head; and several of the least desperate republicans would have joined with better men to shake them wholly off, and to produce something more ostensible, if they had not been reiteratedly told that their sole hope of peace was the very contrary to what they naturally imagined: that they must leave off their cabals and insurrections, which could serve no purpose but to bring in that royalty which was wholly rejected by the coalesced kings; that, to satisfy them, they must tranquilly, if they could not cordially, submit themselves to the tyranny and the tyrants they despised and abhorred. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
Equally parliamentarians spoke of cruelty, inhumanity and tyranny as features of the slave trade and slavery, often providing vivid examples.
Nor are we yet in sight of George Orwell's brilliantly imagined tyranny.
Fortunately we no longer have the burden of the "unfreedom" imposed by tyranny and the denial of political and civil liberties by an authoritarian regime. ANC Today
He says the compulsion of scientists to find the absolute truth can lead to a kind of intellectual tyranny.
The German law is wider, as it refers to persecution under National Socialism or any other form of despotism or tyranny.
v/ere we waken'd by this tyranny T 'ungod this child again, it could not be The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical
Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.
Listen, for example, to Sir Thomas Brownes excuse for publishing Religio Medici (1643): Had not almost every man suffered by the press or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. XI. Of Selection
“Judicial tyranny”, OTOH, would be if the judiciary struck down too many laws, or if it “legislated from the bench”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional
These days it seems we must all submit to the tyranny of the motor car.
Besides, dealing with slaves for profit is repugnant to our religion - a religion that came to us for the purpose of wiping out all traces of tyranny.

How To Use Tyranny In A Sentence

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