In American eyes, elections are the path out of tyranny and civil strife and toward legitimacy, good government, and peace.
When tyranny does arrive, these gun militants want to be ready.
Only those who have been persecuted or fallen victim to tyranny know the rare virtue that was the elemental dust of his make up.
When it comes to the actual work, however, the tyranny ends.
Many were elitists who, despite their opposition to tyranny, remained contemptuous of the masses.
They fled from your tyranny, and grew by your neglect of them.
The tyranny is greatest in regard to "American" and "Americanism."
Guernache was now enabled to bear up more firmly than ever against the tyranny of Albert.
To them Spaniards and Cubans now stood for tyranny and injustice.
It is a comfort to know that in the British islands this hateful kind of tyranny never found a footing.
late 14c., "cruel or unjust use of power," from Old French tyrannie (13c.), from Late Latin tyrannia "tyranny," from Greek tyrannia "rule of a tyrant," from tyrannos "master" (see tyrant).
