Sentence examples for and tyranny in the from inspiring English sources

Those are gorgeous sentences, but they are also tyrannical — and tyranny, in the conventional political sense, is entirely the novel's theme.

By denigrating reason, celebrating impulse and advocating repression and tyranny in the name of a loosely defined "general will", Rousseau's thinking, argues Mr Blom, was actively maleficent (and, unsurprisingly, venerated by Robespierre).

It was a choice between "tyranny in the name of the state" and "tyranny in the name of religion," Mr. Sabahi said at the time in a television interview.

"Just as together we broke the bonds of totalitarianism and tyranny in the Second World War," he said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSISS) in March, "so we faced down the threat of communism in the cold war".

An outspoken atheist -- or as he preferred to be called, an antitheist -- Hitchens rallied many to a belief in rational thinking by describing organized religion as the main source of hatred and tyranny in the world, Reuters reported.

I am continually amazed, but no longer surprised, when I witness incidents where individuals and entire denominations justify and perpetuate acts of bigotry and tyranny in the name of God and religion.

We Ethiopians, who endured a thousand years of feudal oppression and tyranny, in May carried out the third democratic election, which was considered by foreign and local observers to be generally free and fair.

Catherine Sullivan, using actors trained in antic, Richard Foreman-ish stylizations, fills several screens with eerie evocations of war and tyranny in a twentieth-century Eastern Europe of the mind.

There was a belief in the "rule of law", in a distinction between good government and tyranny, in "natural rights".

There I found a combination of glowing enthusiasm for Mr. Obama, a comparison between the democratic system in America and the tyranny in Egypt, the expectation of a fairer American policy in the Middle East, and then severe disappointment after Mr. Obama's failure to intercede in Gaza.

They pinned their hopes on the West, a sort of Super Friends League of Justice, committed to social justice and to end tyranny in the world, to punish elected leaders when they stepped out of line.