5 sentences with 'tyrants'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tyrants and other words derived from it.
• « Many of the tyrants built public works and provided jobs, while others strove to promote trade. »
• « The period between 650 - 500 BCE is sometimes called the "Age of Tyrants" in Greek history because many polis instituted tyrants to avoid civil war between the aristocrats and the less wealthy citizens during this period. »
• « Solon's successors were a collection of new tyrants, some of whom took more land from the aristocrats and distributed it to farmers, most of whom sponsored new building projects, but none of whom definitively broke the power of the old families. »
• « As if this were not enough, the Norwegian Nobel Institute opposes the view that the best way to ensure peace in this unstable world is to stand strong and be prepared, if necessary, to go to war. Yet how else do you win the respect of tyrants and aggressors like Saddam Hussein? »
• « From her home in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, Whig leader John Adams, in 1776: "In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to draw up, I wish you to remember the ladies and be more generous and favourable to them than your predecessor. Do not put such unlimited power in husbands. Remember that all men would be tyrants if they could". »