Sentence examples for serve a tyrant from inspiring English sources

"But any excuse will serve a tyrant.

"You wanted to see what it is to serve under a tyrant, you should have been here when Stanley Fink and Mel Miller were the speaker".

Add to this the problem of selective memory: As evidenced by the obscurity of Baghdadi Jewish culture in Iraq today, awareness of particular poems is often a function of their propagation or repression by a tyrant to serve a sectarian or ideological goal.

Greenberg writes, "Cagliostro also borrowed many narrative and visual elements from Grimault's film: the basic plotline of disrupting the wedding of an evil tyrant and a beautiful innocent girl, the tyrant's luxuriously-decorated palace that is also full of traps, and a gang of henchmen serving the tyrant – both oversized goons and ninja-like assassins..."....

King has a fine feel for military matters, underscoring the brutality of laying siege to a city and the remarkable lack of discipline among soldiers -- and their lack of loyalty, less surprising given that they were fighting to serve tyrants whose legitimacy was often as tenuous as that of a pope's son's.

I don't turn into a tyrant.

How do you bring down a tyrant?

Perhaps Kalashnikov wants to suggest that a society in which mortal car accidents and random shootings serve as home entertainment is also one in which a tyrant can reign with acclaim and his opponents can be killed with impunity.

Now Calloway (a pseudonym she has used since the age of 19) has published a book, "what purpose did i serve in your life" (Tyrant Books, $19), said to be an account of her sexual encounters.

But this is a legacy of the PRI's "perfect dictatorship" and should not serve as a justification to avoid applying the law to a tyrant in the making.

I don't see him as a tyrant at all".