Sentence examples for time of tyranny from inspiring English sources

Only the Dickens of "Oliver Twist" and "A Tale of Two Cities" can compete with Hugo as a popular poet who is also a great writer — and Dickens, for all his radicalism, worked more comfortably within the reformist society of Victorian England than Hugo, who wrote in exile in a time of tyranny in France, ever could.

Stoic arguments were more generally supportive of playing a part in political life, but in times of tyranny, some adherents inclined to withdrawal and contemplation, while others might incline to resistance; yet we see resistors to tyranny, as also active contributors to ordinary politics, among most of the other schools as well.

The Festival of Lights is also a story about seeking freedom in times of tyranny.

But Mr Hessel and his small left-wing publisher (which is used to print runs in the hundreds) say that he has evidently struck a national, and international nerve, at a time of market tyranny, bankers' bonuses and budget threats to the survival of the post-war welfare state.

Lasus was prominent in Athens in the second half of the sixth century at the time of the Pisistratid tyranny and was thus probably a generation older than Hippasus.

Over the passage of time, tyranny revisits.

There were celebrations for those, mainly Islamists, with newly gained access to power, but protests from others who feared a new form of tyranny, this time theocratic, was being imposed.

Since the time of the Enlightenment, political tyranny and the Roman Catholic Church had been blamed for backwardness.

After midnight — free from the drive-time tyranny of time and temperature, news and ads — a voice on the radio reaches listeners in cars and bars, isolated in empty offices and darkened bedrooms.

The Porters of our time deplore the tyranny of 'good taste' and refuse to accept 'emotional' as a term of abuse they are classless and leaderless.

The Porters of our time deplore the tyranny of 'good taste' and refuse to accept 'emotional' as a term of abuse; they are classless, and they are also leaderless.