Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine.
I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
