Only those who have been persecuted or fallen victim to tyranny know the rare virtue that was the elemental dust of his make up.
In short, it is a struggle between liberty and tyranny, justice and oppression, hope and despair.
When tyranny does arrive, these gun militants want to be ready.
When it comes to the actual work, however, the tyranny ends.
The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob.
They fled from your tyranny, and grew by your neglect of them.
But there is really no need to choose between anarchy and tyranny.
Guernache was now enabled to bear up more firmly than ever against the tyranny of Albert.
I want to liberate Englishmen so far as I can from the tyranny of Shakespeare's greatness.
It is a comfort to know that in the British islands this hateful kind of tyranny never found a footing.
late 14c., "cruel or unjust use of power," from Old French tyrannie (13c.), from Late Latin tyrannia "tyranny," from Greek tyrannia "rule of a tyrant," from tyrannos "master" (see tyrant).
