Sentence examples for tyranny it from inspiring English sources

However, by deposing a dangerous tyranny it not only fulfils its duty to protect its citizens but also liberates the oppressed.

If 2008 wasn't a big year for semiotics or for what Barnes calls "the depths of this phallocentric tyranny," it did no apparent harm to Of Montreal — its latest album, "Skeletal Lamping," is moving the band closer to the center of whatever the indie-rock conversation is now.

Europe is not only compromising its own values by turning a blind eye to tyranny, it is rewarding a regime with aid instead of thinking strategically.

It was defiance, it was Nazi tyranny, it was the pall of smoke surrounding the Dome.

The first step to tyranny, it suggests, is the creation of 'in' and 'out' groups based on irrational prejudice.

When they embrace tyranny it is usually out of ignorance and a naïve optimism about human nature.

When the UK sells arms to tyrannies it acts as a signal of support for the human right abuses that are taking place in those countries.

The guy who will wean the US off Middle Eastern oil and the wars and tyrannies it supports to get it - or his opponent?

In elections in a corporatocracy, as is the case in elections in all tyrannies, it's in the interest of the ruling class to maintain the appearance that the people have a say, so more than one candidate is offered up.

It is an irony of tyranny that it cultivates bad habits in its victims that can survive the death of tyrants and complicate the journey to freedom.

Or: "That's all tyranny is: it's not in personality, it's in a set of circumstances".