Sentence examples for tyranny against from inspiring English sources

2. The father's claim pitted parental control in a tyranny against care by relatives in a free country.

Each has its own particular sorrow and its grievance; there exists no common tyranny against which to rebel, not even the tyranny of hard times.

"I was fighting on the right side of history, liberating my people from tyranny against a ruthless enemy engaged in a massive attempt at genocide," he said.

W. S. Gilbert and George Bernard Shaw taught Yip Harburg, democratic socialist, sworn challenger of all tyranny against the people, that "humor is an act of courage" and dissent.

All that invective, taken together, really does add up to a long and revolutionary argument against tyranny, against arbitrary authority — against, that is, the rule of men above law.

What we did yesterday was our answer to the repression and tyranny against the people by the Bakiyev regime," said Otunbayeva, who once served as foreign minister under Bakiyev.

And through it all, we must never, never cease to believe in the moral superiority of our own values ― that we stand for truth against falsehood, freedom against tyranny, right against injustice, hope against despair," he said.

So they flipped the liberal script: Where Obama's acolytes were utopian, conservatives turned apocalyptic, pitting liberty against tyranny, freedom against socialism, American exceptionalism against the fate of Nineveh and Tyre.

The War Against Tyranny has begun, and you just won the first battle.

It is a truth wearily demonstrated by history that acts of tyranny condoned against some will finally become a tyranny visited on all.

"We were defending ourselves against the Ottoman Empire, against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, defending ourselves against Hitler's tyranny, defending ourselves against the separatist gangs in Kosovo".