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Example sentences for: tyrant

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More pagan temple than church, it served as a mausoleum for the cultivated but cruel tyrant, Sigismondo Malatesta, and his mistress (later wife), Isotta degli Atti.
Congolese (formerly Zairian) rebel-turned-ruler Laurent Kabila is being downgraded from liberator to tyrant.
But these days the besieged tyrant of an ailing country can make the United States look mousy.
It soon becomes apparent that solving the mystery will require a blend of reason and superstition--a mighty stretch for a young man whose life is pledged to rationalism and whose unconscious roils with visions of his free-spirited mother (Lisa Marie) being brutalized by a "Bible-black tyrant" of a father.
was the subject of a report from Moscow in Milan's Corriere della Sera, which quoted from several of the poems extolling the Iraqi tyrant.