Sentence examples for soft tyranny from inspiring English sources

"We live in essentially a soft tyranny," he said.

Egyptians, tired of oppression, wealth disparity, and the indignities perpetrated on the middle and lower income classes, revolted against this soft tyranny that has inflicted pain on the people over the last 30 years.

In the case of UKIP, this dominant issue is the soft tyranny of the European Union as it interferes in the identity and the lives of the average Brit, reducing the power of Britons to shape their own culture.

Of course, Tocqueville was aware of the dangers of this kind of sleepless communitarianism; he wrote forebodingly about stifling conformism, the tyranny of the majority, the soft despotism of modern equality.

While it's true that this administration has done far worse than inconvenience Coke-heads, the existence of horrible things isn't an excuse to accept softer forms of nanny-state tyranny.

This idea that political correctness is making audiences soft and is a harbinger of tyranny is misplaced and ultimately dangerous.

Kim Jonever never made public appearances with his wives, but now his son seems to be moving towards a softer, more contemporary style of paranoid tyranny.

He talked of making poverty and tyranny history and of wielding soft power alongside hard power to achieve those ends: "smart power".

Even the soft-spoken language manuals are agents of tyranny.

Walking around the mazelike building in Foggy Bottom, you get the sense that if you duck into any office you will find earnest young women and men discussing globalization, the possibility that Facebook can topple tyrannies, and what is called "soft power," the ability to bend the world toward your view through attraction, not coercion.

Bush had already improved on Clinton's phrase "the tyranny of low expectations" with his own "the soft bigotry of low expectations" and drove it home again in his acceptance.