Sentence examples for foreign tyranny from inspiring English sources

He also noticed that many films involved what he called defiance: ordinary Americans standing up to foreign tyranny or more often domestic bullies.

Nazism and Communism were fundamentally utopian, Viereck argued, sanctioning the murder of any person or group perceived to be an obstacle to a perfect society, and because liberalism suffered from a milder version of the same flaw — a naïve belief in progress and humanity's essential goodness — it was an inadequate defense against foreign tyranny.

Let's consider "X" all the times such arms, in the hands of private citizens, are used to subordinate tyranny, foreign or domestic.

Maud Gonne joined the attacks: "Mr Yeats asks for freedom for the theatre … I would ask for freedom for it from one thing more deadly than all else — freedom from the insidious and destructive tyranny of foreign influence".

Beyond these obvious steps, today citizens have other means at their disposal that are much more relevant than guns to fighting off tyranny either foreign or domestic.

Legislation restructuring our energy economy - protecting us from climate change, creating clean energy jobs and freeing us from the tyranny of foreign oil - is still very much alive in the Senate.

As evidenced in the Nov. 1 article "White House denounces Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua as a 'troika of tyranny,'" U.S. foreign policy is aggressive in nature — one could even say it is predatory.

A collection of 29 pieces representing 40 years of reporting from Africa by Poland's most famous foreign correspondent, whose reports on tyrannies abroad (Angola, Ethiopia, Iran) gave Poland's Communist rulers the fantods.

A collection of 29 articles that represent 40 years of reporting from Africa by Poland's most famous foreign correspondent, whose articles on tyrannies abroad (Angola, Ethiopia, Iran) frequently gave Poland's Communist rulers the fantods.

Their research supports the shrewd observation of John Stuart Mill, the nineteenth century British philosopher, that Englishmen first learned at home and then practiced on their wives the tyranny they subsequently exercised on foreign shores to amass and control the British Empire.

As James Madison said, "The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home".