8 sentences with 'tyranny'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tyranny and other words derived from it.
• « Because the Greeks saw the Persian War conflict in terms of the triumph of true Greek civilisation over barbarian tyranny, and the surviving historical sources are told exclusively from the Greek perspective, this bias has managed to endure to the present day. »
• « Behind the scientific worldview and the rejection of tyranny was a focus on the capacity of the human mind to reason. »
• « European scholars wrote impassioned articles about how Greece, as the cradle of European culture, needed to free itself from the "oriental" tyranny of the Turks. »
• « Giuseppe Mazzini was the quintessential Romantic nationalist, someone who believed that nations would emerge organically to replace the tyranny of the old feudal order of conservative monarchs. »
• « Although emblematic of Stalin's tyranny, the purges did not cause nearly as many deaths as his other policies. »
• « Colonial troops fought in the name of defending democracy against fascism and tyranny, but in their home countries they had no access to democratic rights. Many independence movements, such as that in India, refused to help in the war effort as a result. »
• « As South Korea evolved into a modern, technologically advanced and politically democratic society, the North became a nominally "communist" tyranny in which poverty and even outright starvation were tragic realities of life. »
• « However, in the post-war period, the USSR quickly came to represent nothing more than the threat of tyranny to most people in the West, especially as it came to dominate the Eastern Bloc countries. »