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Example sentences for: tyrant

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The more absolute the power of the local tyrant, the more rapidly and completely his policy desires are implemented.
, Anthony Lewis in the New York Times ) accused the Clinton administration of idly standing by while the Communist tyrant oppresses his people.
He is, of course, "a vicious, ruthless tyrant, but so are many people in the world whom Nato has chosen not to bomb.
Peisistratus, a resourceful and relatively benign tyrant, continued to steer Athens towards greatness.
To the left of its entrance is a copy of Donatello’s Marzocco, Florence’s heraldic lion, next to his bronze of Judith and Holofernes, which always made the Medici uneasy with its theme of a tyrant decapitated.