Sentence examples for Tyrannical influence from inspiring English sources

Aristides, who has a second family, continues to exert his tyrannical influence over Lula and is dead set against the boy's pursuing an education.

Our spirit is usually impeded from its full expression by the tyrannical influence of the ego and its mercenaries, e.g., pride, passions, appetites, the "flesh".

The tyrannical influence of adenosine is not ubiquitous, however, as illustrated by several ribozyme and aptamer selections.

The 1985 production starred Anthony Hopkins as a tyrannical news titan whose influence reached around the world.

The Hotel in Amsterdam – written in 1968 and scarcely revived since – was an elegant tone-poem about a group of six friends, all fleeing from the influence of a tyrannical film producer.

In 2001, for the sake of the "special relationship," Blair attached himself to Bush, and then — for good reasons (abhorrence of Saddam Hussein's tyrannical cruelty, the hope of influencing the President's course) and bad (a fear of giving the Tories an opening) — to Bush's war.

It still makes me grin now, and it remains a calming influence to my occasional tyrannical hissy fits.

Eric's dissertation explores how petty officials influenced the development of "tyrannical" government across the calamitous fourteenth century.

In Christian theology, these choices are fundamentally private, and government attempts to influence them are both doomed and tyrannical.

But I also learned that there is a hierarchy to single motherhood, one that has been historically constructed by societal norms and patriarchal influences but still rules with a tyrannical hold today.

I took it to mean, and really thought, for years and years, that my collision of influences and background and interests created a kind of tyrannical high-low, a two-part identity that was fun, and weird, but had to be adhered to at all times in this strict "Kathryn" vs. "Kate" binary.