"It was tyrannical what they were trying to do to us, " says Dr. Maddox.
Besides, a more complicated form of government protects the people from a possibly tyrannical legislature.
But, overbearing and tyrannical government cannot survive if people refuse to comply with its illegitimate demands.
Like the first Socrates, he saw himself as a gadfly of the tyrannical, lazy or self-satisfied.
Venezuela is moving from a relatively diverse economy into an Arab-like oil petro-tyrannical welfare state.
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Our second amendment was largely created to enable citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.
Further, since his followers already have suspicions of a tyrannical government, it played neatly into a preconfigured context.
Taking collective responsibility for social problems is not the same thing as knuckling under to a tyrannical government.
But, they also intended militias to be the last, not the first line of defense against tyrannical government.
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Boston is the cradle of American liberty and is justifiably famous for its rejection of oppressive and tyrannical government.
In theory and in practice democracies can foster tyrannical majorities, thus making the understanding of natural rights so crucial.
Hit it with all your might, like you're knocking a repressive, tyrannical government off the face of the Earth.
Even so, he's not the caricature of the difficult, arrogant and tyrannical maestro.
"This was a tyrannical regime, which had no pity towards women, " she says.
On the positive side, they conclusively ended the tyrannical rule of Saddam Hussein.
And it is demonstrative of Turkey's Islamist leaders' exploitation of democratic freedoms in the service of their tyrannical ends.
Linklater wickedly suggests that this ingratiating style, combined with Christian piety, consorts well with a tyrannical Southern insistence on civility.
Some have been more tyrannical and rights-violating than others (see more, below), while most have been merely administrative and wholly innocuous.
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The old gun lobby line that a pack of civilians with hunting rifles will stop a tyrannical federal government is silly.
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Protecting citizens' right to speak out against their government has always been an integral part of what separates us from tyrannical regimes.
Now we have a story about a tyrannical tycoon, Mr. O'Hare, who opposes oxygen-producing trees because they compete with his bottled-air business.
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By Philip II, Spain had the makings of the first police state infused with the ill-gotten moral authority of a tyrannical clergy.
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"Fair trials were unimaginable under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule, " Bush's statement read.
The founders knew first-hand the tendency of centralized monarchies to make rash, tyrannical decisions that were often counter-productive, not to mention undemocratic.
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With American support they can do much to end the tyrannical regime.
And on the other we have the old, corrupt and tyrannical Mubarak.
ITT's imitators, faced similar problems when its tyrannical founder, Charles Bluhdorn, died.
Earlier, there was the equally stomach-churning sight of the tyrannical Libyan regime getting a turn at chairing the UN's Commission on Human Rights.
There, Somjit, a tyrannical housemaid, grudgingly takes her in with a warning to stay far from the mistress of the house, Madame Ranjuan.
Mr. Kramer says a company with Apple ties actually proves that being abrasive and tyrannical don't go hand in hand with innovation and success.
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