Further, since his followers already have suspicions of a tyrannical government, it played neatly into a preconfigured context.
There, Somjit, a tyrannical housemaid, grudgingly takes her in with a warning to stay far from the mistress of the house, Madame Ranjuan.
We do not face the threat of a tyrannical government today that justifies its overthrow, but the Founding Fathers left the possibility that a future tyrant would require an armed insurrection.
Our second amendment was largely created to enable citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.
Taking collective responsibility for social problems is not the same thing as knuckling under to a tyrannical government.
"This was a tyrannical regime, which had no pity towards women, " she says.
Linklater wickedly suggests that this ingratiating style, combined with Christian piety, consorts well with a tyrannical Southern insistence on civility.
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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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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George Orwell warned of the dangers of a tyrannical government that justified its rule in the name of the greater good in his classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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For a year now, the people of Syria have been in the midst of a heroic struggle against a tyrannical regime, but no American help has come their way.
It was ridiculous and overexposed but irresistible, a heavyweight match of Atlantic coast free-spenders, and for a while it looked as if the two teams would maintain a tyrannical grip.
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It would only be fair, however, to note that they will be able to exercise that right because coalition forces liberated them from a tyrannical, barbaric regime that never would have permitted such freedom of expression.
Go to any NRA convention, or look around the group's website, and you will learn that gun owners are the true American patriots, the only force standing between democracy and a tyrannical state delivered by emotional elites with naive but dangerous ideas.
With the Obama administration refusing to back the anti-regime protesters, and the European Union similarly hemming and hawing, millions of Iranians who are on the streets, risking their lives to protest a stolen election and a tyrannical regime, have been cast adrift by those they thought would support them.
And that effort continues every day as we provide assistance to the opposition, non-lethal assistance, as we ramp up our humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, and as we continue to pressure our friends and partners around the world to recognize the fact that allying with Assad, helping prolong Assad's brutal, tyrannical regime is a very bad choice.
Besides, a more complicated form of government protects the people from a possibly tyrannical legislature.
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.
Surely, I thought, Americans would reject this trajectory of decline and turn to a leader with a more positive vision a vision of economic vigor and a resolve to face up to a militant tyrannical ideology rather than appease it.
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Hit it with all your might, like you're knocking a repressive, tyrannical government off the face of the Earth.
But David, working in his library amid Dickensian piles of documents, turns tyrannical, and falls into a funk that's both painful and instructive to behold.
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Assad runs a dynastic, tyrannical system, which has survived for decades not by making peace, but by making big trouble--punctuated by deals in which Syria practices its own variation on North Korea's rich repertoire of threats, talks and extortion.
Like the first Socrates, he saw himself as a gadfly of the tyrannical, lazy or self-satisfied.
Russia traditionally has been ruled by a powerful, oft-tyrannical center.
Nevertheless, American citizens can purchase unabashed weapons of war such as the Bushmaster .223 rifle used to mow down 20 Sandy Hook first-graders purely as a bulwark against these imagined tyrannical threats.
Mr. Jefferson would be appalled and outraged to know his beloved Commonwealth of Virginia has become a weapon of mass tyranny in the hands of unprincipled politicians and bureaucrats, a wholly owned subsidiary of the tyrannical national-security state in Washington, DC.
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At some point in the past three years, I realized we had a choice to make: Keep working late hours for little pay in the service of tyrannical bosses who berated us with accusations of insignificance, or work late hours for little pay in the service of a new, self-determined future.
In Syria, dictator Bashar Assad's violent repression of the popular revolt against his tyrannical, minority regime has exposed the Syrian leader as a vicious murderer.
Farther afield, China's eagerness to do business in Myanmar, and its consequent reluctance to chide the tyrannical generals that run the place, helped to prevent a forceful international response to the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations there last year.
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