Sentence examples for corrupt tyranny from inspiring English sources

But Nunn gives us little sense that Elsinore is a deeply corrupt tyranny poisoned by usurpation.

But this production does nothing more than reheat the old idea that Hamlet is the victim of a corrupt tyranny and is full of textual fiddling.

But this war is also a revolt of Palestinian youth against the corrupt tyranny of Yasir Arafat, who has turned their wrath on Israel to deflect it from himself.

The idea that the corrupt tyranny of Saudi Arabia, the sectarian heart of reaction in the Middle East since colonial times, and its fellow Gulf autocracies – backed by the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu – are going to bring stability, let alone freedom, to the people of Yemen is beyond fantasy.

The most popular role for the homosexual was as a 'decadent slaveholding lordling' whose corrupt tyranny was doomed to be overthrown by the young male heterosexual hero.

Maybe the family of al-Hussein understood that his sacrifice would cause an uprising which would overthrow the corrupt tyranny that existed at that time.

Western-style parties and parliaments almost invariably ended in corrupt tyrannies, maintained by repression and indoctrination.

Larry Vigon Chicago, March 21 , 2011• To the Editor: Western support for the popular eruptions in the Middle East is rooted in a hope that something genuinely singular is happening, that young idealists, having experienced the borderless freedom of the Internet, will lead their homelands away from corrupt tyrannies and toward pluralistic democracies.

Legitimate systems included monarchy (rule by one), aristocracy (rule by the few), and polity (rule by the many), while corresponding corrupt forms were tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy.

Many came to realise that their state was not even a conservative theocracy any more, it was a corrupt militaristic dictatorship cloaked in religion, no different from any other tyranny.

Corrupt yet stable tyrannies, which had supported a fragile peace with Israel, have been replaced by nascent Islamist republics and failed or failing states.