Hayhurst wrote a TV play, The Man Who Crossed Hitler, and a documentary, Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant, about the extraordinary story of a young Jewish lawyer who subpoenaed Hitler to appear as a witness in a criminal trial in 1931 and who, in the process, called him "a cross between Baron Münchhausen and Attila the Hun".
"Tyrant" is about an "unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle East nation," according to the show's website.
When the US went to war in Iraq in 2003 on the basis of a big lie about weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqi leader was a tyrant, no doubt about it.
During the 8th and 7th centuries Corinth was ruled by the Bacchiad family of nobles, but they were eventually overthrown by Cypselus, who, followed by his son Periander, ruled the city as tyrants from about 657 to 550.
The Comte isn't really a tyrant; his ideas about virtue just happen to be a little out of date.
Expelled from Sicily by Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, about 315 bc, Timaeus went to Athens, where he studied rhetoric under Isocrates' pupil Philiscus of Miletus and passed 50 years of his life.
FX has ordered a second season of "Tyrant," the drama about an American family that gets pulled into the inner workings of a turbulent fictional Middle Eastern country.
Paleontologists know a good deal about the "tyrant lizard" and its ecosystem in North America, just as they know lots about the Late Jurassic period, the time of such famous dinos as Allosaurus, Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus, Zanno said.
The Next Day is a song about a tyrant, let me leave it at that.
Like many natural history museums, the Carnegie hopes the seemingly unquenchable thirst for all things dinosaurian, particularly anything about the tyrant lizard king, will increase memberships, donations, attendance and even gift-store purchases.
At home he was a tyrant, nagging his daughter about her weight, bullying his sons to play ball games so as to stop them becoming effeminate, and berating his wife for taking a teaching job and neglecting the housework.
