0 government by a ruler or small group of people who have unlimited power over the people in their country or state and use it unfairly and cruelly:
1 unlimited authority or use of power, or a government which exercises such power without any control or limits
Faith, certainty, dogmas, anathemas, prayers, prohibitions, orders, taboos, tyrannies, wars and glories overwhelmed the order of things.
Even in some democratic areas—certainly in some tyrannies—civil wars, ethnic conflicts or other internecine strife predominate.
We felt that it weakened our argument all over the world, where we had to stand up against other injustice and tyrannies.
We know of "people's democracies"and allegedly"democratic" republics which are no more than tyrannies.
One of the most dangerous of all tyrannies is to prevent a person from leaving a country to work and live abroad.
He has talked as though something new was being done, something which will be creating precedent and setting up tyrannies.
As a result of that fear, it allows tyrannies to flourish.
If they ever suffer from these tyrannies it will be because they did not employ proper counsel to draft their schemes for them.