Sentence examples for under a tyrant from inspiring English sources

The most-significant change in the conception of tyranny from the ancient world to the modern lies in the role of the people under a tyrant.

"You wanted to see what it is to serve under a tyrant, you should have been here when Stanley Fink and Mel Miller were the speaker".

We were reminded Libya had spent 'forty years under a tyrant.' We were urged to remember the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, which occurred 23 years ago this December 21st.

At night when I closed my eyes I was haunted by nightmares of dystopian worlds in which me and my friends were under attack by a tyrant police regime hellbent on annihilating us.

What red-blooded teenage boy wouldn't want to flee a home where he feels like a prisoner under the thumb of a tyrant?

We get a full insight into this world that isn't under the thumb of a tyrant king or has its magic shackled.

Colvin would be the first to demand that we concentrate less on her own death than on the outrage of the Syrian Army, under the command of a tyrant too often described as a "mild-mannered" eye doctor, slaughtering its own people.

Here Guy deftly sets a timeless and all-too-familiar emotional tussle — two proud men, each convinced he knows the other's fatal weaknesses, each feeling grievously wronged — against the less familiar social and political landscape of medieval Europe, showing how Becket's belief that his religion obliged him to oppose a tyrant evolved under the influence of various scholars.

My sister and I were like soldiers under the vicious regime of a tyrant, scared to put even the slightest foot wrong through fear of sadistic retribution – yet suffering that very fate regardless.

A man of liberal mind, Mariana disturbed his superiors with his defense of the heretic Arioso Montano and with his De rege et regis institutione (1598; The King and the Education of the King, 1948), a treatise on government that argued that the overthrow of a tyrant was justifiable under certain conditions.

Is he giving and charming to his boss and a tyrant to those under him?