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Examples
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Zimbabwe was slipping further and further into famine and tyranny,
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Van Niekerk said it was his opinion KwaNdebele was too poor to take independence and it could be achieved only through tyranny,
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The tyrant must be the chief sufferer for his tyranny,
Old times in Dixie land : a southern matron's memories, 1901
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It is obviously against the persecutions and grinding tyranny,
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Colchester had declared for Mary five years before, because she was the true heir who had the right to reign, and rebellion was not right because her religion was wrong: but now that God delivered them from her awful tyranny,
The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Attucks, leading on Boston citizens to resist tyranny,
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The author of this note has heard the lamentations of daughters and wives, whose homes have been made desolate by the foul spirit of tyranny,
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Flore Brazier complained to the tradespeople in the markets, and to the women with whom she gossiped, about Monsieur Rouget's tyranny,
The Two Brothers Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Flore Brazier complained to the tradespeople in the markets, and to the women with whom she gossiped, about Monsieur Rouget's tyranny,
The Celibates Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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One of type of striving is fighting in the battledfield againast oppression and tyranny,
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