Sentence examples for tyranny on from inspiring English sources

In the first place, the connection is never made by intelligent ancient writers interested both in the mechanics and psychology of hoplite warfare on the one hand and in tyranny on the other.

And yet, by expressing fury over Democratic "tyranny" on health care, Republican leaders would seem to be abandoning one of the core principles of small- r" republicanismall- r

President Bush's "second-term mission", says the headline, is "to end tyranny on earth".

He escaped that tyranny on the back of a horse, learning to ride at a level that few achieve.

But if the hastening tempo of the railway age brought collective liberation, it imposed a new tyranny on the individual.

We forget that Rooney was a supernova, a man-boy who had enjoyed a reign of tyranny on the pitch since he was seven years old.

May 29, 2013 Announcing that he had "freed New Yorkers from the tyranny of the park-on-a-driveway, drive-on-a-parkway paradox," Mayor Bloomberg presided on Wednesday over the opening of the Hutchinson River Linear Automotive Storage Facility.

Now Saudi Arabia is the mark; one of the most repressive tyrannies on the planet which already has one of the largest stocks of armaments (at $48bn, it was the seventh largest military spender in 2011).

It's the tyranny of the four-on-the-floor kind of thing - there's absolutely no room for breathing or pausing.

I tried to make it a more general attack on tyranny, and on the constant waging of war, which seems to be the go-to mode, to the detriment of everyone who lives on this small planet.

The remaining Greek tyrannies on the island collapsed, and there followed a brief revival of prosperity for the Greek cities of Sicily.