Examples of tyranny

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In general, 16th- and 17thcentury observers of the empire understood tyranny as absolute rule based on the cruelty of the ruler.
Neither of these two crackpots considers the problem of the tyranny of the director, although for actors it is a common one.
He had resisted, fatally, a tyranny that remained uniquely vivid in western minds ; his life was a moral human drama, a tragedy of righteousness.
In many ways this liberates processing researchers from the tyranny of constantly evolving grammatical theory.
Later contributors to the querelle simply blamed male tyranny for whatever inferiority women exhibited.
In constantly guarding against the tyranny of the majority.
None of the types of tyranny can find in its objectives any rationale for adherence (other than tactical and superficial) to the disciplines of legality.
Readers were therefore liable to imagine vengeance as a private matter rather than a blow against political tyranny.
While the lairds acknowledged no master, foreign or domestic, they also refused to recognize legal constraints, and exercised an oppressive tyranny over their inferiors.
A republic was defined by the participation of the citizenry in government, which preserved their ' free state ' from sliding into tyranny.
All came to oppose not only tyranny but monarchy, agreeing upon a substantially shared definition of liberty.
Emancipatory researchers are not aiming to save the government money through elder volunteering or to impose a tyranny of activity on older men and women.
Using technology to overcome the tyranny of space: information provision and wayfinding.
The standard of non-tyranny requires that political discussions involve contestation, the reasoned consideration of alternative arguments.
The crux of the matter was this : did statesanctioned religious assessment signify spiritual tyranny or the fulfilment of a public good ?
At a more detailed level, particular generic aspects of playing are discussed, such as getting away from the tyranny of the bar line.
The concept of tyranny, however, was not applied consistently throughout this period.
The track leads, he might think, into a moral impasse in theory and into either anarchy or, worse, tyranny in practice.
Although it asserts that women's tyranny is "the worst," the actual depictions of its youthful ephemerality and pettiness undermine the passage's explicit assertion.
The civil virtues of associations replaced aristocracy as an independent check on tyranny in a democracy.
Not least, the vocal cadence with its leading-tone and clear unconstrained dominant momentarily revokes the tyranny of the pedal.
Citizens, and especially empowered actors, weigh whether the net gains of state protection exceed the costs of tribute given to, or tyranny contrived by, pests.
Consider the mythological importance in democratic theor y of the lone dissenter, the loyal opposition, and (conversely) the tyranny of the majority.
The "tyranny of tradition," it appears, will continue to prevail.
Not least significant to officials was the concern that jobber tyranny was an avoidable cause of working class discontent.
On the tyranny of hypothesis testing in the social sciences.
His descriptions of his private life with his family gave no hint of his tyranny at home.
Right where it belongs - free from the tyranny of absolute control by either party.
Revivalism was a means of escape for some women threatened by the domestic tyranny of men.
They generate multiple meanings and, in so doing, free the reader from the tyranny of imposed definition.
In such countries, voters, not institutions, are seen as the bulwarks against tyranny.
Consequently, as soon as tyranny replaces self-government [the city] ... ceases to make progress and to grow in power and wealth ; [on the contrary] it declines.
Both resulting situations will soon develop into tyranny.
Electoral systems, and political institutions in general, become more complex as they try to offset the 'tyranny of the majority'.
People in other countries who have overthrown tyrannies have used it.
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