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Sentence count:134+9Posted:2016-12-15Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: CaesarismStalinismabsolutismauthoritarianismdespotismdictatorshipmonocracyone-man ruleshogunatetotalitarianismSimilar words: tyrantfertility rateper annumsunnyfunnymartyrat any ratecannotMeaning: ['tɪrənɪ]  n. 1. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) 2. dominance through threat of punishment and violence. 
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31. They could become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny of matter.
32. Their representatives are helping thousands of orphaned children and displaced families escape from the tyranny of civil war.
33. Who will protect minorities against the passions and tyranny of the popular majority?
34. The resounding cry of emancipation from the tyranny of imitation was echoed well into the twentieth century.
35. You, as members of the grand jury, are the living barriers between citizens and tyranny.
36. Could schools be built around the project method, in which the tyranny of traditional subjects was loosened?
37. One has led to the written constitution, but it has also led to revolution and at times tyranny.
38. Modernization by tyranny is no more likely to work today than it did when Stalin tried it half a century ago.
39. People who join citizen militias often believe the government is out of control and armed citizens are needed to prevent federal tyranny.
40. The forces of tyranny and aggression shelled the Mandali suburbs, Khurmal and Darband-e-Khan with long-range artillery.
41. You are freed from the tyranny of a limy soil as long as you use an ericaceous compost.
42. He says the compulsion of scientists to find the absolute truth can lead to a kind of intellectual tyranny.
43. A comparable reaction to the sadistic tyranny of the primal fathers would have been natural to the sons.
44. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
45. If equality means entitlement to an equal share of the profits of economic tyranny, it is irreconcilable with liberation.
46. Having lost his northern provinces, he does not hide his ambition to re-establish his gruesome tyranny over them.
47. When the war was over his father had carried on the fight against right-wing tyranny.
48. Her emotional intensity is experienced by the other characters as a tyranny from which they must escape if they are to survive.
49. Our nation was born as a pilgrims' refuge and made its wrenching break for freedom be-cause Old World tyranny was unbearable.
50. Forget the junta's involvement in heroin production and trafficking, and the humanitarian and refugee problems resulting from its tyranny.
51. I will tell you: because they only pretend to hate tyranny.
52. The music, by Brecht's contemporaries Weill and Eisler,(http://sentencedict.com/tyranny.html) adds atmosphere and reinforces the strong protest against tyranny and persecution.
53. Even his most generous acts were received with hostility and scorn, and this encouraged a natural predisposition towards tyranny and excess.
54. There was as yet no consensus on how best to overcome the Autarch's tyranny.
55. Love is the one thing we have against the implacable tyranny of time.
56. Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants, but the tyranny of masters.
57. In a town that chafed under this tyranny, every new house that went up was a vote against the Cecil interest.
58. The tie-up had been a favorite horror story that Jemmalee enjoyed telling to Carol when Carol was beginning to under-stand tyranny.
59. Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. George Bernard Shaw 
60. Why are the opponents of tyranny still portrayed as hysterical witch hunters?
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