A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
1 Their economy is in ruins; their political system is an Orwellian tyranny .
2 It afflicts the cities; it is a tyranny in the country districts.
3 The trouble in Russia just now is the tyranny of the minority.
4 Individual accumulation is responsible for crime; crime necessitates laws; laws breed tyranny .
5 We talked about the war metaphors and the tyranny of positive thinking.
6 Until recently, I was feeling stifled by the tyranny of the new.
7 The problem is that one person's tyranny is another's universal healthcare bill.
8 And remember that there is no tyranny in the State of Confusion.
9 Thus do the results of tyranny aid in the overthrow of tyrants.
10 The poison of indolence is in our blood-thetendency to centralized tyranny .
11 Once, in the Holy Alliance, that Concert itself became an intolerable tyranny .
12 The government of the revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny .
13 Nor was the regular police of the city an engine of tyranny .
14 The force employed by tyranny and injustice accomplishes nothing permanent in history.
15 The tyranny of the King's unfair laws of taxation and religious intolerance.
16 It is quite as harsh as the tyranny of the old-fashioned despots.
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