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Yi stole the elixir of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule, but his wife, Chang-E drank it.

But when the second leftists in turn became tyrannical, they continued to call it liberty!

When Leona Helmsley, the tyrannical hotel tycoon, drafted her will, the witness who signed it must have been a bit surprised.

But this doesn't require a tyrannical rule: a good head also needs to know when to get out of the heart's way.

Placing a child in a day nursery is coercive and tyrannical and a violation of the child's free and natural disposition.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long: Joseph and I were the only two that would stay.

The film depicts a strong contrast between the characters of the cerebral Judge Dee and tyrannical Empress Wu.

which I now occupy will not see that no rude hand of power or tyrannical passion is laid upon him with impunity.

The film depicts a strong contrast between the character s of the cerebral Judge Dee and tyrannical Empress Wu.

Among the Shadow Lords, tyrannical alphas hold on to power and privilege through tenacity, deception and continual subterfuge.

this alone legitimises civil undertakings, which, without it, would be absurd, tyrannical, and liable to the most frightful abuses.

Chomsky's America is a tyrannical behemoth which exploits and terrorizes, forcing its will on its own citizens and the rest of the world.

These tyrannical states do not care for the sanctity of human life. The terrorists delight in destroying it.

But Thomas (Vincent Cassel), the company's tyrannical director, tells her that perfection isn't enough.

No tyrannical society can long exist, he felt, when it cannot control the flow of information and ideas.

However, his beautiful wife Chang E drank the elixir of life in order to save the people from her husband's tyrannical rule.

Tyrannical rulers are self-seeking. But in God's kingdom, anyone who aspires to positions of power must be a servant.

Mitt Romney's health care plan became a tyrannical assault on American freedom when put in place by that man in the White House.

Here, in the popular rising against a "tyrannical" government, the fruits were more than the securing of a freer constitution.

Sooner or later, a child will rebel against the tyrannical rule of his father.

Tyrannical governments and tyrannical parents have tried to establish order through fear and punishment.

I know a man who dared to say No to his famously tyrannical boss Robert Maxwell.

to his death, the villagers celebrated the demise of the tyrannical king.

I knew that the people of this land were victims of the tyrannical Fascist regime of them all.

Westbrook, a GIRL of 16 whom he scarcely knew but whom he thought he should rescue from a tyrannical family.

Emperor of Rome ( a. d. 14-37). Chosen by Augustus to be heir to the throne, he was a suspicious, tyrannical ruler.

The earth was saved by a strong and tyrannical archer named Hou Yi.

He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king should be.

But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do thee any wrong, is irrational and tyrannical.

He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be.

Like so many other revolutionaries, his regime became tyrannical and collapsed when he died.

It is unimaginable that an office with so much unchecked power wouldn't eventually become corrupted or tyrannical or both.

They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas.

He thought he should rescue her from a tyrannical family.

Exercising power arbitrarily and often unjustly; tyrannical.

"For decades, these oil wells have suffered untold misery under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule, " said U.

In Zimbabwe, ordinary citizens suffer under a tyrannical regime.

For whatever things may have looked like from the outside, from my tyrannical perspective we could not even begin to fit in.

how come every time someone tries to take down a tyrannical dictator it turns out we've been helping them all along.

In times of political repression, tyrannical regimes use them as proof that rebels are misusing terms, i. e.

Tyrannical governments sitting on oilfields will be more likely to find protection from powerful oil-consuming countries.

Later in the novel, Hawthorne devotes 15 pages to an unnamed narrator who describes and taunts the corpse of the tyrannical Judge Pyncheon.

Any law that violates the indefeasible rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical .

On the positive side, they conclusively ended the tyrannical rule of Saddam Hussein.

But the line between authoritative and tyrannical in these matters in this part of the world is horrifically blurred.

The whole country was under the heel of a tyrannical dictatorship.

Tyrannical Hollywood film moguls ruled their stars' lives.

Since the fall ofthe tyrannical government of Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia has not had apermanent national government.

She works for a tyrannical new boss.

Yet this same lust for tyrannical conquest is also their greatest weakness.

And now we need the same revolutionary acts to bring down this tyrannical government.

The intruders' tyrannical behavior led the local people to revolt.

NO one will like to live in a tyrannical despotism.

Tyrannical behavior comes in all forms.

But words are tyrannical things, they exist for their meanings.

He has a tyrannical reign on his empire.

After an immense American sacrifice, including the loss of some 4, 400 lives, Iraq is a country that has thrown off its tyrannical past.

Episode 3: Reckoner Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical

Lifestyles of the Rich and Tyrannical

One effect of the digital Panopticon is the loss of privacy and the threat of tyrannical social control;