6 sentences with 'tyrant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tyrant and other words derived from it.
• « In many cases, the result was the rise of tyrannies: a government led by a man, the tyrant, who had no legal claim to power, but who had been appointed by the citizens of a polis to avoid civil conflict (tyrants were usually aristocrats, but also responded to the needs of the hoplites). »
• « For the Greeks, the term tyrant did not originally mean an unjust or cruel ruler, since many tyrants managed to resolve major political crises on behalf of the hoplites and, at the same time, succeeded in placating the aristocrats. »
• « However, in 508 BC, the Athenian assembly appointed a new tyrant named Cleisthenes of Athens who finally took the radical step of allowing all male citizens to vote in public affairs and to be eligible for public office. This included free but poor citizens, those who were too poor to afford arms and serve as hoplites. »
• « There was a group of little boys running with all their might and with terrified precision on the football field, under the orders of a tyrant who would stride to the edge of the field and shout rather violent things at them: "You look like you've got rocks in your pants, Rafferty!" Or, "I want to see your power, 44! Do you understand? Power!" »
• « Subsequent generations kept alive the memory of the Glorious Revolution as a heroic defence of English liberty against a would-be tyrant. »
• « Patriots believed that the British monarchy under George III had become corrupt and that the king had become a tyrant who did not care about the traditional liberties of the members of the British Empire. Disaffection with the monarchy explains why a republic seemed a better alternative for the revolutionaries. »