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"tyrannical" Definitions
  1. using power or authority over people in an unfair and cruel way

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We should have learned the lesson from the replacement of the tyrannical shah of Iran by the far more tyrannical and dangerous ayatollahs.
The issue was that the tyrannical and unpopular individual mandate to purchase health insurance was so tyrannical and so unpopular that Congress wound up watering it down considerably.
Unlike the Silicon Valley-based techno-libertarians and utopians who claim Bitcoin will save us from inevitable tyrannical government meddling, Eduardo feels Bitcoin actually did save him from tyrannical government meddling.
If only I had stood up to my tyrannical roommate.
Currently, the obsessive focus of my tyrannical mind is crystals.
But we're not here to talk about the tyrannical Chucky.
It's to shoot at the government when it becomes tyrannical!
Raise them so that even a tyrannical reformer will hear.
He called it the planet's "most tyrannical and oppressive regime".
It's to shoot at the government when it becomes tyrannical.
They described the case as a tyrannical use of federal authority.
It's clear today that they have been vampirized by tyrannical criminals.
The people, he wrote, can be as tyrannical as any king.
As Plato predicted, Trump's tyrannical psyche manifests in his political views.
A "tyrannical atmosphere of 'ideas,'" he called it in February 1987.
They do just fine objectively identifying authoritarian, tyrannical, or violent leadership.
But it's not true — the US is an imperial democracy and tyrannical.
In August he deposed the tyrannical president of Ethiopia's troubled Somali region.
Much like the original 1977 film, it challenges fascism and tyrannical oppression.
Do people have a right to defend themselves against a tyrannical government?
The seizure represented the resistance against the Bourbons, the tyrannical French monarchy.
Few people are brave enough to stand up to a tyrannical regime.
How to limit government and make tyranny, including tyrannical majorities, less likely.
The political lifespan of a tyrannical autocrat would be much shorter. Arnold.
Madison recognized that "the people" can be as tyrannical as a monarch.
The film's anger is concentrated in two devastating scenes of tyrannical white intruders.
Rosie O'Donnell was 100% trolling Donald Trump as the pervy, tyrannical gym teacher.
The army I'd seen was hierarchical, tyrannical, masochistic, and violent, it horrified me.
He can be petulant, rude, puerile, spoilt, controlling, tyrannical, obsessive, unfeeling, even cruel.
They were the tyrannical revolutionary leaders in the classic dystopian novel Animal Farm.
You are in danger of tyrannical minority rule inflicted by supposedly majoritarian institutions.
There's also his father, played as an abusive, tyrannical patriarch by Bruce Dern.
" He referred to the "doing away of judges" as a "tyrannical power grab.
Kalukango), the well-paid mistress of the fatuous and tyrannical Mayor (Marc Kudisch).
She ran away from tyrannical, religious parents when she was in high school.
In a social media video, Perez said he was fighting a tyrannical, vile government.
This year the Communist Party expelled him, saying he had been "tyrannical" and "shameless".
Listen, that might sound a touch tyrannical, but new Gmail is pretty darn cool.
Patrick's father (grippingly played here by Hugo Weaving) was frustrated, tyrannical, cruel and abusive.
Becerra is a way forward, rather than another success for the tyrannical Christian patriarchy.
It entailed putting limits on politics that would restrain both tyrants and tyrannical majorities.
In "Matilda," the titular character famously stands up to the "tyrannical" headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
It would be far worse, Lincoln recognized, to invest the President with tyrannical powers.
I've already written about the misuse of power and unhappy families and tyrannical fathers.
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But to the people whose impulses are being checked, those features can feel tyrannical.
"We will not be intimidated by these tyrannical attempts to silence journalists," he vowed.
In another, she has saved humanity from a tyrannical emperor by stealing the drink.
And it confirmed the worst fears of their foes about an interloping tyrannical president.
"This is the intolerable, politically motivated provocation and tyrannical blackmail ...," it said in a commentary.
No Senate Republican dismissed this notion of an unchecked executive as a dangerous, tyrannical idea.
On the Trump-sceptic right pundits call the president a tyrannical "child upon the throne".
There is a halfway position between regarding President Trump's action as either righteous or tyrannical.
As we speak, the Iranian people are protesting against their tyrannical regime, demanding their freedom.
To suggest that "cunt" be removed from every English-speaking person's lexicon would be tyrannical.
Socialism is a one-way ticket to economic collapse, tyrannical government, and immense human suffering.
" It is this same sort of compulsion that Thomas Jefferson famously called "sinful and tyrannical.
As a parent you often are forced by your tyrannical children to try carnival games.
Nor did references to tyrannical emperors disturb my three-month trek through Haile Selassie's Ethiopia.
The power brands wield over their suppliers can be oppressive to the point of tyrannical.
He got pushed to a degree, but it was hardly nothing tyrannical or nothing crazy.
By design, the unelected, largely unaccountable Supreme Court serves as a bulwark against tyrannical majorities.
But he eventually felt that was "a form of accepting the tyrannical regime," he added.
As his charm dissolves, he devolves from a mischievous daredevil into a ranting, tyrannical drunk.
"This is the intolerable, politically motivated provocation and tyrannical blackmail...," it said in a commentary.
Other groups believe a shadowy elite is plotting to rule the world through one tyrannical government.
In the other, darker ending, they're instead hardened by the experience and turn tyrannical, purging dissenters.
Some point to the English civil war and the short-lived but tyrannical republic that ensued.
He was also a tyrannical sadist who belittled and abused Astrid's mother, Stien, and their children.
For a significant segment of the globe, tyrannical governments determine what is permitted on communication networks.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in England, Mourinho is dealing with his own disastrous kitchen in a tyrannical fashion.
As Mathayus, he plans to take down the tyrannical ruler Memnon for the Scorpion King crown.
The maximum, "super spicy," was nothing but scorch, without nuance, crescendo or flow, monolithic and tyrannical.
Government propaganda at home portrayed the communist USSR as godless, tyrannical and antithetical to individual freedoms.
Once in Mexico they're hired by a tyrannical, counterrevolutionary general at war with Pancho Villa's troops.
Backers of a ban say that such tours do "nothing but provide funds to a tyrannical regime".
But it was a brutal place to work, with employees subject to harsh discipline and tyrannical foremen.
Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, wanted it to be resistant to control by tyrannical governments and banks.
How far does Cressida [in The Hunger Games] go to release her homeland from a tyrannical despot?
"It's for restraining tyrannical tendencies in government," he said in a Leadership Institute speech several years ago.
Unbeknownst to most earthlings, the Milky Way is ruled by the Galactic Federation, which Rick finds tyrannical.
Locking up Americans for refusing to turn over newly banned weapons in common usage would be tyrannical.
There can be no question but that Venezuela is being led by a tyrannical group of people.
What happens now will be definitive and will determine a free or tyrannical future for the country.
Lowe himself is a delicious villain, and his tyrannical regimen forces the Balcombes to leave St. Helena.
I watched his face: rugged and angular, but no discernible tyrannical features, and I detected no scars.
Surrounded by tyrannical divas, lethal vendeuses and "the star-spangled bitches" of fashion, Bill appears totally happy.
In 2013, he wrote on his blog that armed revolution was an important defense against tyrannical government.
Gun-rights advocates also make the grandiose claim that gun ownership is a deterrent against tyrannical governments.
"This is about defending yourself from a tyrannical government," Mr. Glenn said, standing at a gun range.
Requiring government actors to be answerable to the people protects the public from arbitrary and tyrannical governance.
"We could be calling Aries tyrannical, or we could be calling Cancers manipulative wet noodles," she says.
Having experienced the potential for that fate up-close, Rafael Correa reacted by removing his tyrannical constraints.
In the novel, Matilda uses telekinetic powers to gain revenge on her tyrannical school principal Miss Trunchbull.
Perez claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was to fight what he said was a tyrannical government.
During a television interview in 2007, he waxed indignant about the tyrannical rule of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.
They have little in common with Chechnya, a tyrannical state where elements of sharia law have been reintroduced.
After her mother passes away, preteen Ofelia is left alone with her tyrannical stepfather, a Spanish army officer.
Bastille Day, which falls on the 14th of July, celebrates the populist seizure of power from tyrannical rule.
Product changes will be reduced to the lowest common denominator, designed not to offend or appear too tyrannical.
In a country where the majority controls so little, are we really in danger of tyrannical majority rule?
While Huawei is big, it can never be best as long as it remains under Beijing's tyrannical thumb.
So there are blog posts — in which you can see minimalism's can-do optimism curdle into something tyrannical.
Violence plagues some corners of the world, and too many still live under the grip of tyrannical regimes.
His main focus is a supposed liberal plot to seize people's guns and install a tyrannical world government.
In "Tyrannical Minds," Haycock uses such tales to illustrate that childhood experiences do not by themselves make tyrants.
Congress outlawed flogging in 1862, after repeated complaints from sailors that tyrannical captains were wielding the lash unfairly.
Hard-headed, tyrannical and bloody-minded, Kieft had angered the natives by trying to levy taxes against them.
How can a powerful, wealthy American man hold affection for the tyrannical, corrupt leader of a hostile power?
Though their ineffectual father seems vaguely sympathetic to their plight, he never stands up to their tyrannical mother.
Leona Helmsley was given the sobriquet "The Queen of Mean" because of the tyrannical treatment of her employees.
But he turned into a tyrannical leader who waged a campaign of oppression and violence to maintain power.
Or perhaps people feared that Obama's liberal views would lead to tyrannical policies that would warrant an armed rebellion.
His present predicament reminds Filipinos of episodes during the tyrannical rule of President Ferdinand Marcos, overthrown 32 years ago.
Kotaku's report on the NeoGAF situation cites users who have taken note of Malka's more problematic, occasionally tyrannical behavior.
"What we've seen is a scaling up and a quickening of the efficiency of this tyrannical operation," added Ryan.
So that's the backdrop against which Trump is acting, and it really does clarify some of his tyrannical behavior.
That book might have been a childhood favorite for Marge, but it was also, again, about a tyrannical slaveowner.
Such governance can be tyrannical but also ironically fragile, as the state's selective blindness makes it a stumbling giant.
Their main goal was to undermine the idea that representative democracy was inherently superior to their own tyrannical system.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed tyrannical and oppressive rule on a great people for far too long.
Picasso is portrayed as both brilliant and tyrannical — possessive of Gilot but also careless with her desires and needs.
When the imperial rulers became ineffectual or tyrannical, they could rightly be removed in a coup or a revolution.
While some believe that Mr. Maduro inherited a tyrannical government from his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, I beg to differ.
In recent days, Mr. Pence used increasingly hostile language, calling the North the most tyrannical regime on the planet.
The way the US has casually interfered in the internal affairs of other sovereign nations is simply put … tyrannical.
Is Donald Trump a cunning Emperor Palpatine, a tragically tyrannical Darth Vader — or perhaps a Tatooine-based crime lord?
As with most utopian designs, one can imagine that if built, especially into whole cities, they would feel tyrannical.
Vice President Mike Pence, who described North Korea as the world's most tyrannical regime, arrived in South Korea today.
So I stand with the EFF when I say: Free the Internet of Dildos from Tzu Technologies' tyrannical grasp!
Patients with both mental and physical impairments were subject to torture, murder, and the tyrannical rule of its head nun.
And yet, Daenerys, whose tyrannical tendencies have been alluded to at multiple points throughout the show, will not brook opposition.
Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress, is formidable, a "fierce tyrannical monster who frightened the life out of pupils and teachers alike".
Norman is the truest casualty of his tyrannical mother, and Hitchcock has a clear compassion for the character's tragic dimension.
It's a monumental breach of the laws and norms that protect citizens from the tyrannical abuse of violent state power.
Is the tyrannical regime of Bashar Assad the priority target, or is it Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)?
Silencing Brooks's right to shoot the 30-footer in the final seconds despite an overwhelming lead is of course tyrannical.
"He believes in democracy and he hasn't been tyrannical in the way he's gotten the best of us," he added.
He'd reached a sort of tyrannical status on the ship, and wended his way throughout like a snake with secrets.
Bernie is a sincere man who wants to help, but socialism and a bigger, more tyrannical government isn't the answer.
Rather than standing up to the British Redcoats, they're standing up to the perceived tyrannical government of the Obama administration.
The framers of the Constitution did not want, and did much to prevent, abuses of power by a tyrannical executive.
On Tuesday, Trump reiterated his fondness for tyrannical strongmen when he praised former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's approach to terrorism.
Dany's M.O. in Slaver's Bay was to play the liberator — extreme violence, she could argue, was warranted against tyrannical oppressors.
Callimachi: But Mosul, like the rest of Iraq, paid a heavy price under the increasingly tyrannical rule of Saddam Hussein.
We all have firsthand experience of how unnecessarily rigid and tyrannical a society's conceptions of manhood and womanhood can be.
" In the same speech, he advocated for "civil disobedience" to respond to what a questioner described as the "tyrannical government.
On the Fourth of July, Americans will celebrate our great nation's freedom from a tyrannical government thousands of miles away.
The violence at first had little to do with religion: It was about the Syrian people versus a tyrannical government.
Back when you worked for Bush 43, you called Kim&aposs father a tyrannical dictator and North Korea a hellish nightmare.
It prevents any one branch of government from amassing too much power or independence from the others branches, thereby becoming tyrannical.
Ruthless and bloodthirsty gangs roam the open roads and the tyrannical Authority seek to rule who remains with an iron fist.
Some wonder if letting out those opposed to his tyrannical rule is a way of easing pressure on him to reform.
One thing hasn't changed since the days of the Roman lawyer Cicero: Free republics are sometimes taken over by tyrannical demagogues.
That makes for a rather uncomfortable tension with the Rebel and Resistance missions to fight for freedom against a tyrannical Empire.
To hear him tell it, Obamacare is not just regrettable but tyrannical; gun controls are the high road to the gulag.
" He called North Korea "the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet," which is "nothing short of a prison state.
It sounds like something a villainous, tyrannical government would do in a science fiction story, but it's happening in real life.
This story of his spiraling trajectory has engendered a vigilance to catch the scary leader before he becomes the tyrannical monster.
It's why he has called for the overthrow of the tyrannical Iranian regime in an effort to 'Make Iran Great Again.
It's not that Honduras or El Salvador are tyrannical regimes; rather, the problem is that criminal gangs are out of control.
I never questioned my mother's tyrannical decree over my culinary coming-of-age—adults made the rules and offered little explanation.
Making the tyrannical mom into a homophobe is the perfect detail, an evil cherry on top of a very evil cake.
" In the same speech, he also advocated for "civil disobedience" in response to what a questioner described as the "tyrannical government.
But he's also a tyrannical thug who has been emboldened by Donald Trump's disregard for human rights in American foreign policy.
That they would be the 3 percent today that would take up arms against the tyrannical federal government and overthrow it.
Hardliners here argue that letting up pressure now would only reward tyrannical governments for creating impoverished societies vulnerable to the pandemic.
Now thousands more lives are in danger because of a tyrannical and unprovoked attack by Mr. Erdogan on this peaceful region.
How did life change after your Oscar for best supporting actor for playing the tyrannical music instructor Terence Fletcher in "Whiplash"?
Among the many things that keep people awake at night is a vision of a tyrannical Trump openly defying the Constitution.
As the country's economic crisis deepens and he becomes more tyrannical, he is alienating his own political base, according to experts.
But though that story pits a resistance fighter Batman against a tyrannical Superman, it otherwise has little to do with this Knightmare.
President Xi should study it carefully before taking China off the path of economic growth and onto the path of tyrannical growth.
Because fictional tyrannical dystopias are primarily envisioned as affecting white people, it can be harder to see negative policies that oppress others.
The free single people of The Lobster operate under their own rigid rules, under the tyrannical leadership of Loner Leader (Léa Seydoux).
What they stumble upon instead is a human settlement run by what looks to be a tyrannical group of gun-wielding maniacs.
History has shown us that governments all over the world have turned tyrannical, and it's quite easy for them to do it.
" Still, she notes, "in their anomic, tyrannical hearts they like to know who's boss, for weakness drives them to enslave and dominate.
So when "social justice warriors" come along to "shut down debate," they appear to be acting in un-democratic, even tyrannical, ways.
Nor was he a tyrannical figure whose toppling will transform the Trump campaign, instantly, into a Technicolor land of dancing, liberated Munchkins.
The plot concerns a messianic Stranger who arrives and brings what the libretto euphemistically terms "love" to a tyrannical Ruler's oppressive land.
" She was reluctant to talk much about her role as a tyrannical old woman, modeled on Albee's mother, in "Three Tall Women.
Maeve's sense of resolve may be bracing and perhaps tyrannical, but she's one step ahead on the evolutionary scale of the show.
He's frustrating fodder for that eternal question: How could someone with such elegant, sensitive visions be so unremittingly willful, tyrannical, unfeeling, ungiving?
What he has cared most about are the rewards of long-term stability, irrespective of a nation's governing ideology or tyrannical behavior.
But good looks, like good taste, can start to feel tyrannical, or at least dull, and lately things have started to shift.
As a result of Borchetta and Braun's "tyrannical control," she would not be allowed to perform songs from her first five albums.
In several of John Hurt's best-known roles, he played the leaders of authoritarian regimes or subjects struggling underneath their tyrannical reigns.
Nearly every role in the play, which centers on a tyrannical mother and her five daughters, was played by a male actor.
In one a femalepeers through a wine looking glass while a handful of canvases follow men in suits in distorting and tyrannical situations.
But, as with Cliven Bundy's standoff, the anti-government militiamen driving this crisis believe it's about standing up to a tyrannical federal government.
" He also railed against compelling people "to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.
The students decided to treat her joke like a dare and have since showed up in skirts to picket Mitchell's tyrannical uniform guidelines.
The smallest cohort -- anti-government extremists -- however, go a step further, intoxicated by a vitriolic view of the government as traitorous and tyrannical.
The argument goes that the Union is a compact, and that membership can be annulled for perceived wrongs or a tyrannical central government.
A clever plot about a tyrannical theatre producer destabilized by a demonic Amazon Alexa-like device delivers, down to its disturbing final shot.
In the recent past, King Saran banished magic from the land of Orïsha, killed its magic wielders and rules with a tyrannical fist.
The festival marks the beginning of Italy's carnival season and is believed to commemorate the town of Ivrea's overthrowing of a tyrannical baron.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., of Cesar Chavez and Susan B. Anthony, to a tyrannical regime in Chile that oppressed its own people.
But it's easy to imagine a future Trump, a candidate who shares his tyrannical nature but is skilled enough to capture a plurality.
Saudi Arabia has begun to loosen the tyrannical hold over society enjoyed by the clerics who imposed what they considered a true Islam.
Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) was beaten by her husband, Florek (Jon Bernthal), and is now abused and manipulated by her tyrannical mother (Jacki Weaver).
The tyrannical head nurse (Grace McLean) and stuffy doctor (Andrew Kober) turn into the Queen and King of Hearts, among other menacing things.
Everyone knows that Rob is wrong, but still he refuses to bow to the tyrannical power of real life, of proper, actual facts.
Ann Dowd of The Leftovers and "Ann Dowd is always good" fame plays Aunt Lydia, a tyrannical but loving guardian of the Handmaids.
Donald Trump can't wait to see Kim Jong Un again, after the U.S. President received a "nice letter" from the tyrannical North Korean despot.
He fired shots at and lobbed grenades on the Interior Ministry and the Supreme Court to fight what he said was a tyrannical government.
Woodcock, as befitting his chosen vocation, is fastidiously attentive to detail and a bit tyrannical about his surroundings, though he rarely raises his voice.
Sessions has doubled down on civil asset forfeiture, a tyrannical practice used by police departments to systematically strip people of color of their wealth.
Although I'd be ready to see her, I'd feel a mounting resistance to what I perceived to be her tyrannical wish to control me.
Even the drama of Veronica's tyrannical father Hiram's obsession with Archie hasn't created any true tension in this relationship, until now with the breakup.
If a situation has been brewing that involves envy or any sort of bratty or tyrannical behavior, it will come to a climax now.
The more tyrannical Stalin became, the more people had cause to doubt him, and the more likely it became that they would abandon him.
Out in the woods, the loners practice guerrilla warfare and declare their opposition to the sexual regulation and tyrannical monogamy represented by the hotel.
He and two partners started a pirate radio station for the million or so people trapped in Mosul after ISIS began its tyrannical reign.
Key to the Hitler mythos is the story of a scary leader who became a tyrannical monster; he did not invade Poland in 1933.
His current film, "The Boss Baby," in which he voices the character of a tyrannical infant, is currently No. 1 at the box office.
It takes the larger-than-life figure of Picasso and repaints him as a brilliant but insecure artist and a loving but tyrannical man.
"She would be tyrannical in the sense of making extraordinary demands," according to the former executive, who said Rebekah was preoccupied with WeGrow 's Instagram.
In the 20th century it became an emblematic text for radical movements, as the titular character sacrifices herself for her principals against a tyrannical state.
They want to use reconstruction money as a bargaining chip to force Mr Assad to make concessions and set Syria on a less tyrannical path.
In a more magnanimous mood, tyrannical male dominance morphed into a much more generalizing libido sciendi (lusting curiosity) applicable to both sexes as frolicsome spirit.
For example, some campaigners say they want to unshackle transgender people, women and minorities from social norms, hierarchies and language that they see as tyrannical.
By behaving like a tyrannical toddler in the middle of a meltdown, Trump confirmed that he is temperamentally unfit to serve as commander in chief.
Crypto-evangelists extol the virtue of its decentralisation, highlighting that there is a fixed total supply, preventing the token from being debased by tyrannical governments.
Obviously, majorities should rule where government is going to rule, but the fact is that majorities can be tyrannical, and they can be self-interested.
In the heartland, these are people who feel they've been the victims of sustained economic violence at the hands of tyrannical governments of both parties.
Trump thought he would benefit from insulting a democratic leader - who answers to voters -- and by embracing a tyrannical one who answers to no one.
Never mind that there is no utopian Muslim "Caliphate", only heavy bloodshed, tyrannical punishment of Muslims, rape of Muslim women, and death to Muslim dissenters.
We've now had three generations of tyrannical rule and abuse, and people who have lived under this their entire life have never thought for themselves.
But when you return to it as an adult, wielding the only weapon said to be able to defeat the tyrannical Ganondorf, it is ruined.
It's harder to understand why fascism takes root in a society when a story is constantly contrasting it with other, less tyrannical forms of government.
And I am equally upset at my party cowering to an increasingly tyrannical minority and failing to pass a specific resolution to a specific comment.
But the play does have a delicious villain in its Morris, played by David Wohl as a tyrannical perfectionist who thrills at his own gravitas.
On the way there—and in fact, on my way anywhere during this tyrannical day—I had to listen to the Tragically Hip's greatest hits.
For Vestrini, the refusal to compromise or accept tyrannical notions of truth was as much a part of her process as her meditations on death.
Hyperinflation (like extreme income inequality, which unfortunately is still a problem) was the result of gross economic mismanagement but was not coupled with tyrannical oppression.
In 2018, almost four decades after from the collapse of Pol Pot's tyrannical communist regime, the international tribunal ruled that the Khmer Rouge committed genocide.
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical," Jefferson wrote.
The answer could determine who owns the future, China, ruled by a tyrannical government, or the United States, with its traditions of freedom and tolerance.
They now refer to the agency as tyrannical, even labeling the director "King Richard" and calling for his firing in the name of defending democracy.
"More than 200 years ago our founders sought to escape an oppressive, tyrannical governance in which absolute power vested with a monarch," Justice Gonzalez wrote.
We cannot be sure whether the chickens and the fish will care, but for us, the humans, these standards are key to avoiding tyrannical behavior.
She collects her scraps and brings them to a junk-trading outpost run by a tyrannical orange blob named Donald Trum — I mean, Unkar Plutt.
The notion that a book can cause pain is just one more example of the tyrannical coddling of overly sensitive readers that defines this era.
They fret about tyrannical government, but by waving their guns threateningly, by frequently citing the right to rebel, they invite the government to respond with force.
When the proposed Constitution was before the people for ratification, many anti-Federalists worried that the new government would be too powerful, and could become tyrannical.
On Bill Nye Saves the World, everyone's favourite science guy uses "flavour" to describe a diverse array of sexualities, and the tyrannical attempt to dictate another's.
Mr. Godfrey — a folksy, sentimental ukulele strummer to his audiences but an imperious, tyrannical boss behind the sets — ordered all his entertainers to take dancing lessons.
Set on Mars, that series chronicled a brutal class struggle led by a member of the Red caste Darrow on Mars, which toppled the tyrannical Society.
For the uninitiated, Italy's Carnevale D'Ivrea seems more like a rejected Monty Python sketch than a centuries-old tradition celebrating the deposing of a tyrannical baron.
The Three Percenters, in other words, reserve the right to oppose any government they deem tyrannical—even one they might, in some distant future, help create.
But even starting Season 3, we were talking a little bit about a notion of some tyrannical force and some populism and what that would mean.
As a child, she lived with Granny's Goodness' Home for Orphaned Youth, and the pack of kids are taught to fight against Darkseid, Apokolips's tyrannical ruler.
Some of Mr. Doctorow's earlier novels feature rebellious hacker heroes who take on shadowy corporations and tyrannical government agencies and fight the erosion of civil liberties.
In so doing he turned the story of a once-servile son who brags about killing his tyrannical father into an exploration of Trinidad's national identity.
Inside his locked office, surrounded by walls of card files, the tyrannical, perpetually bored deity sits behind a computer and plays nasty practical jokes on humans.
This naturally makes him useful to Cyra, sister of the tyrannical Shotet leader; Cyra's own currentgift grants her the ability to project, and experience, constant agony.
A century and a half later, in 1973, a tyrannical regime of violence visited Chile once more in the name of conservative values and oligarchical interests.
But the Zimbabweans who danced in the streets of Harare and Bulawayo on Tuesday also knew that the tyrannical system he had created was still alive.
When the only defenders of journalism are journalists — when elected officials in a democracy behave as if reporters are combatants — leaders with tyrannical instincts become emboldened.
Jack Dishel, the comic-genius creator of viral YouTube show :DRYVRS starring in two main roles - the technology-obsessed Sultan, who's a perverse and tyrannical buffoon.
Ohio Republican John Boehner called it "tyrannical" government overreach, claiming that it would force small farmers to jump through regulatory hoops anytime they dug a drainage ditch.
John Henry finds that the town is being upended by a tyrannical capitalist determined to force residents off their land so he can bring a railroad through.
But slowly, and then all at once, she faces problems of a different scale: A tyrannical regime takes control of her bank accounts, her child, her body.
Hence the significance of the Hammonds' case — and the change to their sentencing, which just further fed into views of a tyrannical federal government out of control.
In the (admittedly wonderful) past season of Netflix's GLOW, Sam, the visionary but tyrannical director of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, gets his own mini redemption tour.
And depending on your interpretation of it, it did stress certain values concerning tolerance and acceptance, as well as working to defeat a fascist and tyrannical evil.
It appears she's a friend of a friend of Bebe Doc, presumably Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, the tyrannical ruler of Haiti at the time.
Or, like a sore loser, the union makes the British pay for their departure by every means possible and thus exposes the tyrannical nature of its power.
The bloody conflict, however, proved to be a catalyst for a devastating civil war in Syria, which threatened to topple the tyrannical regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Their music video depicts a hapless man following the 44 rules of a tyrannical woman in a not-so-subtle allusion to life under Thailand's military junta.
In an interview with New York Times Magazine last month, Martin compared the President to the show's character King Joffrey, a tyrannical teenage ruler on the series.
Stop pretending that one faction, Fatah, is somehow well-intentioned — a fact refuted by its murderous, tyrannical history, not to mention its openness to allying with Hamas.
Somehow he sensed the potential for such madness in the war-crazed Europe of 1914 and 1915 — and in the life of his tyrannical, guilt-inducing father.
He had been a fugitive — and an online nuisance to the government — ever since, posting videos urging Venezuelans to resist what he called Mr. Maduro's tyrannical government.
In a time of rising authoritarianism, the United States must now exert its global leadership as a force for liberty, democracy, and free media against tyrannical regimes.
At the same time, it is their attempt to rectify what is seen as the increasingly tyrannical and dysfunctional nuclear oligarchy upheld by the nuclear-armed states.
Within pages, I found myself suffering at the hands of its tyrannical egomaniac of a protagonist, Howard Roark, forever plunging a fist into soil and holding forth.
On Campus WATERVILLE, Me. — Conservative media outlets have built a cottage industry of outrage on the premise that conservative students are victims of a "tyrannical" campus left.
An electoral college would help prevent the presidency from being wielded by those who would use it to impose tyrannical measures like universal background checks for firearms.
Patients aren't obliged to help their doctors enforce a tyrannical demand, so there would be no moral reason your friend should inform him of his cannabis use.
"They are going to go to tyrannical dictators who often have trouble convincing their militaries to attack their own people, which we saw in Egypt," Asaro said.
Many Americans were suspicious of a centralized government, worried that it would overstep its constitutional boundaries and become as tyrannical as they believed the English monarchy had been.
However, she suddenly found the story about a tyrannical slaveowner much more racist than she remembered and tried to edit it to fit modern standards of political correctness.
Social bonds sometimes constrain people as well as sustaining them; escaping an abusive husband or tyrannical mother-in-law is easier in a city than in a village.
Based on true events, Outlaw King follows Robert as he tries to free Scotland from Edward I of England, a tyrannical leader who violently occupied his home country.
Now is the time of testing whether we can keep our republic, or whether this republic is destined to change into a different, more tyrannical form of government.
Ever since the rise of the Soviet Union, the idea of democratic socialism has been tainted in the West by its more authoritarian, tyrannical cousins of communist dictatorship.
They offered to find a sweater for me to put on, so it wasn't some tyrannical end of free press, but I opted to just go around instead.
" But, considering the sport's allegations of animal cruelty, perhaps its description should be changed to "the breaking of a horse's instincts and body, through often tyrannical training techniques.
The era's conservatives insisted that human nature — and therefore human society — was irredeemably imperfect, and that too much mucking around with social legislation bred an overreaching, tyrannical government.
The book describes Mao as a tyrannical personality with a fiendish sexual appetite and appalling personal hygiene who suffered from a motor neuron disease in his last years.
That's largely due to the efforts of historians of the Dunning School, who spent decades creating a narrative of Reconstruction as a tyrannical, corrupt and failed social experiment.
North Korea, he said, starved and tortured its people, and had ordered the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of its tyrannical ruler, Kim Jong-un.
There's definitely a tyrannical streak in Fadell—in a heated moment Fadell once asked his cofounder, Rogers, to postpone his honeymoon to help the Nest team meet some deadlines.
When you finally succumb to your basest urges and relax into a wholly tyrannical' dissidents-on-their-knees kleptocracy (and you will!)' your legacy in fashion history really begins.
Many weeks later, when I attended a professional makeup workshop in Turkey, the (kinda tyrannical) instructor went around the room calling out people for wearing and not wearing makeup.
The southern states said they were raising arms to assert a right to rebel against tyrannical government, but they did it on behalf of their power to keep slaves.
The Bundys have been organizing opposition to the government case against the Hammonds on social media in recent weeks, which they described as a tyrannical use of federal authority.
The first time he worked with Tarantino, on the Jamie Foxx-starring film Django Unchained, he earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role as a tyrannical slave owner.
The typical sovereign citizen group is a community of right-wing, anti-government agitators who have seceded from what they see as the tyrannical and illegitimate US federal government.
Perhaps, your correspondent suggested to Mr Anderson, some of the narrative threads of the past year—tyrannical men, women demanding attention and redress—had been woven into the film?
Think of the people in Venezuela: They're under a tyrannical regime that has a hyper-inflationary currency, and the majority is unable to leave their families and loved ones.
Angry Reddit users called her tyrannical, lobbed vicious insults at her, and at one point even tried to associate her name with the Nazi swastika in Google search results.
Under President Nicolas Maduro, "dictatorship has become more tyrannical" and the suffering of its 30 million people has increased amid dire shortages of food and medicine, said Luis Almagro.
The United States, South Korea, Japan and all Asian nations need to stand strong against a rogue tyrannical regime that only wants to "divide" our closest allies in Asia.
The film's producer, Stanley Kramer, that most earnest of Hollywood liberals, never oversaw anything comparable to this extravagant Technicolor vision of a tyrannical piano teacher's quest for world domination.
The jihadist group has provided another set of shifting battle lines, introduced more warlords, compelled more foreign interventions and, most of all, put communities under its tyrannical, fanatical rule.
By focusing on Israel, the Human Rights Council not only damns a nation that actually respects human rights, it deflects attention from the actual crimes of such tyrannical regimes.
The Founders were concerned about the equally tyrannical nature of individual autocrats and populist mobs, as both can deprive a nation and its people of their rights and liberties.
Truly democratic rulers would not want to live in a country without a vibrantly free press -- only a tyrant or a subject content to live under tyrannical rule would.
We don't get the picture of Abigail Adams, who's furious to the point of threatening rebellion and using the language of tyrannical rule with regard to gender relations, right?
Still, a lesson of fundamentalist regimes worldwide is that when reactionaries try to enforce their ideas about gender traditionalism, they can be more tyrannical than real tradition ever was.
When the people of Venezuela, Cuba and Iran are suffering, he is quick to dismiss that a tyrannical political system such as socialism or Islamic totalitarianism is to blame.
"The Jar" is a wild political comedy about a tyrannical feudal lord, Don Lollo, who orders a gigantic human-size clay pot to hold his estate's great olive harvest.
Brutalized by her tyrannical father (Peter Mullan) and unprotected by her long-suffering mother (Daniela Nardini), the sharp-minded Chris plans to leave the farm and become a teacher.
Vicky, a young ballerina, joins the troupe run by the tyrannical impresario Boris Lermontov, and her career soars until he, resenting her romance with the composer, kicks her out.
Articles about Ms. Klobuchar's behavior as a tyrannical boss stand out not because such behavior is unique, but because the same has not been written about her male counterparts.
Chernobyl's Deputy Chief Engineer Anatoliy Dyatlov, interpreted by English actor Paul Ritter as tyrannical and arrogant, "did not behave as terribly with people as the show portrays," Parashyn said.
" To be clear, McVeigh, who visited Waco, Texas, during the infamous siege at a cult compound in 1993 that resulted in a fire that killed more than 20123 people, was radicalized by what he viewed as tyrannical government action taken at Waco, writing to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) before the Oklahoma City bombing, "all you tyrannical people will swing in the wind one day for your treasonous actions.
The grandiose or tyrannical put up monuments; writers make sure their books are deposited in libraries; the multitude order gravestones and label photographs, though all this floats in impermanence too.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday condemned President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba, saying the trip legitimizes the "tyrannical dictatorship" of Cuban President Raul Castro.
In order to compete in the Games, they become citizens of a small nation, but the stakes are raised when their new tyrannical dictator tells them it's medal or die.
While Walden carried on Tuesday, characterizing the efforts to reinstate the 2015 net neutrality rules as antiquated or tyrannical overreach, he had other industry-crafted lies in his pocket, too.
Peter and Catherine, for all their whims and tyrannical ways, were superb at this: Catherine's favourite, Grigory Potemkin, was an outstandingly gifted administrator; Alexander Suvorov an equally impressive military commander.
The city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, wants to come to its rescue by advertising for a "night czar" — and whatever such a tyrannical-sounding role entails has set off people's imaginations.
Mr Xi is no Mao, whose tyrannical nature and love of adulation were so great that he blithely led the country into the frenzy and violence of the Cultural Revolution.
Tyrannical despots, vast quantities of narcotics, women seen as second-class citizens: it's hard to imagine how reporting on the war in Afghanistan could have prepared Kim Barker for Hollywood.
As an openly feminist candidate, Myles confronted a tyrannical political class of white men that, up until today, continues to ignore and often exacerbate the struggles of the historically oppressed.
The film is set in a futuristic Japan, where Megasaki City's tyrannical Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Kunichi Nomura) orders that all dogs be deported to a wasteland called Trash Island.
"Now is the time of testing whether we can keep a republic or whether this republic is destined to change into a different, more tyrannical form of government," he added.
Swift made a direct plea to fans via Twitter and Instagram on Thursday night asking them "to talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control" over her.
His villainous actions come from a place of wanting to prove the world wrong about his past, and a tyrannical need to become the most powerful being in the universe.
To alienated users, a tyrannical ideologue and his "shadow bans" is a more appealing, or at least comprehensible, story than the alternative: practiced, selective indifference, guided by growth and advertising.
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Because what is Higgins if not a kind of tyrannical director, rehearsing Eliza in her role until she walks and talks and smiles and laughs just the way he wants.
I still think the Federalists got more things right than wrong, but I keep returning to the Antifederalists and their deep skepticism about our capacity to restrain a tyrannical executive.
The devastating account of elite athletes training through injuries or eating disorders and their tyrannical coaches outlines a win-at-all-cost attitude that became the norm in these sports.
The "farmer king" liked nothing better than to wander among his fields, talking happily to peasants, pigs and princes alike, not a tyrannical thought in his amiable, befuddled old mind.
"We came here because a tyrannical king is trying to take away our Second Amendment rights," said Jerome Bell, 203, who said he's from Virginia Beach and running for Congress.
"We came here because a tyrannical king is trying to take away our Second Amendment rights," said Jerome Bell, 53, who said he's from Virginia Beach and running for Congress.
They encounter human beings with machines and poisons, snarling dogs and a large colony of rabbits who have surrendered their freedoms for security under a tyrannical oversize rabbit, General Woundwort.
But he was also decent and generous, secretly aiding those persecuted by the tyrannical Emperor Domitian and giving away a lot of money for education in his hometown of Comum.
Let's remember that the founders put in very strong checks against tyrannical majoritarianism: The Senate was not directly elected, the electors were meant to curb demagogic characters, and so on.
In the fourth installment of the Mad Max series, water is scarce, petrol is king and the disrupt society is run by a tyrannical ruler, whom Charlize Theron's character rebels against.
Auteurs will no doubt refuse to use digital actors in their films on principle (though some might prefer them, since they will uncomplainingly follow even the most tyrannical director's every command).
Fear is the factor no one wants to address — fear of criminals, fear of terrorists, fear of the government's turning tyrannical and, perhaps more than anything else, fear of one another.
Of course, Trump's tweet is still important insofar as it includes the tyrannical possibility ("perhaps" is one of Trump's underrated tics) of removing the citizenship of those who burn the flag.
Another shows a giant sinking iceberg, its surface labeled 'protests, rallies, uncooperative movement and strikes', while submerged under water are successive layers tagged 'Electoral fraud', 'Tyrannical rule' and 'Police-triad collusion.
In the meantime, they're continuing their occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon because they want to let the world know that the federal government is a tyrannical force.
Their subject was the ongoing unrest caused by the Stamp Act, which imposed the first direct taxes on colonists, and by other legislation the people in Massachusetts judged oppressive and tyrannical.
The pair are the senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge, the tyrannical communist faction that killed more than 1.7 million people -- about a fifth of Cambodia's population -- during the 803s.
Over time various Amendments to the U.S. Constitution have helped the country run effectively, to include more people in our democracy, to safeguard against the rule of a tyrannical, unstable demagogue.
"It is time that we expose those who glamorize and apologize in the service of Communist, authoritarian, and repressive governments," he declared, criticizing people who nurture "idealized" views of tyrannical regimes.
On the surface, 3% sounds like another bad Hunger Games knockoff—a young adult dystopian story where kids learn they're chosen and rebel against a tyrannical adult-run system of control.
He arrived before dawn outside the La Carlota airbase, in Caracas, and recorded a video declaring that the time had come to force out the country's increasingly tyrannical ruler, Nicolás Maduro .
While men are certainly not the focus of this spacious story, they have an outsize influence as tyrannical husbands and fathers bent on controlling the lives of their wives and daughters.
Mr. Sessions cast the Justice Department's decision to act in grand terms, painting a picture of a society at risk of ceding its fundamental freedom to tyrannical elements that police speech.
As the US Supreme Court declared in 1942: 'freedom to think is absolute of its own nature; the most tyrannical government is powerless to control the inward workings of the mind.
As that spectacle was opening in Washington, 12 time zones away, in Hanoi, the president was wrapping up a friendly dinner with Kim Jong-un, the tyrannical leader of North Korea.
Netanyahu offered to share Israel's water expertise with Iran, saying "the Iranian people are victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water," according to the Times of Israel .
The first novel introduces readers to a villager named Heloise who witnesses the brutality of the tyrannical Order, which nominally protects the world from wizards with the power to summon horrific demons.
If anyone knows the dangers of a tyrannical regimes, it certainly is the Germans, and Trump's actions, and that of his puppet master Stephen Bannon, have done little to assuage those fears.
Wilson was referring to the post-apocalyptic action thriller "Mad Max: Fury Road," in which a small band of humans look to escape from a tyrannical leader after the collapse of civilization.
The Supreme Court has successively removed civil rights, reproductive rights and gay rights from the whims of tyrannical local or national majorities by constitutionalizing them, notwithstanding attempts by conservative legislatures to resist.
The abominable treatment of women in the profession, and the lack of class and racial diversity, do little to undermine the cliché of the tyrannical master-architect belting out orders to subordinates.
And the leaders he praises are tyrannical ones, like Russian and North Korean leaders Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, who use military displays to convince their peoples of their country's strength.
This particular group of feral young things belongs to an indigent tribe ruled by the tyrannical and sadistic Monty Mae Maloney (Xanthe Paige), a woman with a smokin' body and Beyoncé moves.
Sure, it's a tyrannical rule that only makes sense in a Kafka kind of way, but the head chef is the one with the big knife, so best do as they say.
Into this rather longwinded and stagy mix, Boyd throws a variety of devices: a tyrannical father, an allegation of musical plagiarism, a false accusation of fraud and a simmering case of tuberculosis.
In "Little," Rae plays April, the beleaguered assistant to a tyrannical tech mogul (Hall) who is sent hurtling back via a swish of a wand into her nerdy, bullied younger self (Martin).
And when a tyrannical authority responds to legitimate demands for liberty with indiscriminate violence, its people must decide whether to flee to parts unknown or to stay and fight for their freedom.
Embodied with a distracted air and a sneaky tyrannical streak by the excellent John Magaro, Joe isn't squarely in the spotlight for much of this production, which is directed by Mr. Nelson.
Opinion Columnist Working in digital media is like trying to build a fort out of marshmallows on a foundation made of marbles in a country ruled by capricious and tyrannical warring robots.
According to this argument, known as "insurrectionist theory," the Second Amendment gives citizens the right to rebel against a tyrannical government—a right that is rooted in the very foundation of the republic.
We have laid out a path toward a bright and prosperous future for all of Iran, one that is worthy of the Iranian people, who have long suffered under the regime's tyrannical rule.
It's only fitting, then, that Meyers (as a symbol of patriarchy) is hell bent on silencing three generations of Strode women (Laurie, Karen, and Allyson), who band together to end his tyrannical predation.
Whether she's portraying a "nasty woman" in American Horror Story: Cult or gearing up to play a tyrannical nurse for her upcoming Netflix series Ratched, Paulson perpetually has a lot on her plate.
Photo: Ng Han Guan (AP)A misconfigured online database has exposed new details of China's tyrannical surveillance apparatus, which the country's government has used to further suppress one of its most persecuted populations.
Speakers with a hateful message become martyrs of the "tyrannical campus left" when protesters prevent them from speaking—particularly when things turn violent, as happened when Murray visited Middlebury College earlier this year.
On North Korea: Pence said the nation is "the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet," and that nothing changes in the U.S.' approach until they get rid of their nuclear weapons.
Still, by conflating the two, Trump showed North Korea he understands its objections to Bolton's approach, since Kim almost certainly sees his nuclear arsenal as the ultimate security guarantee for his tyrannical rule.
Conservatives tend to retort, in so many words, that "the people" were always meant to have guns as such, since an armed citizenry functions as a putative check on tyrannical government over-reach.
How did the left in the West come to embrace restriction, censorship and the imposition of an orthodoxy at least as tyrannical as the anti-Communist, pro-Christian conformism I grew up with?
The storytelling team of tyrannical father and his dimwitted progeny recalls another anarchic Irish celebration of the narrative impulse, Enda Walsh's "The Walworth Farce," to which "Bears" may or not be paying homage.
Those brave men and women protesting on the streets of Tehran are risking everything to confront a tyrannical regime that takes its people for granted – a situation not dissimilar from our own beginnings.
But Democrats see a more sinister motive, warning that Trump is adopting a tyrannical approach that politicizes the Justice Department and will discourage federal employees from upholding their constitutional duties across all agencies.
Op-Ed Contributor Earlier this month at the National Assembly in Seoul, President Trump highlighted the tragic tale of the "two Koreas" — one free, just and peaceful, the other tyrannical, oppressive and dangerous.
It then accelerates even more dramatically once the community she had come to worship as the living embodiment of Jesus joined the Sandinista insurgency destined to topple the corrupt and tyrannical Somoza regime.
It might allow her to finally triumph over a tyrannical husband, but it does not make her a leader or put her in the running for Greatest First Lady, not by any stretch.
Their answer was quoted by the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, as she assumed her role in executing the gravest act a government of the people can take against a tyrannical president.
Dunbar, a right-wing Christian activist who questioned the constitutionality of public schools in 2008, labeled the education system 'tyrannical' when she published her book, 'One Nation Under God,' while serving on the board.
In addition, the poems of this section are all 14 lines, evoking the sonnet form, which has connotations of authority, rule, and dictated structure—ingredients that, when mixed just right, result in tyrannical systems.
A lack of justice in the Khashoggi case means that tyrannical leaders can press on with their abuse of human rights and ramp up their attacks on critics, as well as the free press.
Not quite, although Outlaw King and Braveheart do focus on the same sliver of history: Scotland's fight for liberation from Edward I of England's tyrannical rule, also known as the Wars for Scottish Independence.
Above everything, actor Paul Kaye (familiar from his role as Thoros of Myr on Game of Thrones) gets a callout for throwing himself utterly into his role as brittle, tyrannical school administrator Arthur Savage.
While the world may have looked on in shock, the reality remains that K-Pop and J-Pop stars in Asia are subject to tyrannical rules and absurd social stipulations from their management teams.
Shakespeare depicted him in his play as a cruel, sadistic, tyrannical hunchback responsible for one of the most notorious crimes in English history - the murder of his young nephews, "the Princes in the Tower".
"Today's FBI forgiveness of tyrants' illegal acts illustrate purpose in why I insist Americans rise up and tear down this tyrannical system that is destroying America from within," she wrote in a Facebook post.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under intense scrutiny for suspending his country's Chief Justice just weeks before a general election, a move that critics have attacked as tyrannical and unconstitutional.
She is a former school board member known for her right-wing positions, who has questioned the constitutionality of public schools in the past and labeled the education system "tyrannical," The Associated Press reported.
John Morris Russell, a former assistant to Mr. López-Cobos and now conductor of the Cincinnati Pops, remembered a boss who, rather than taking a tyrannical approach, had a deft personal touch with musicians.
"Now is the time of testing whether we can keep our republic, or whether this republic is destined to change into a different, more tyrannical form of government," Nadler said after Wednesday's contempt hearing.
At worst — if Trump really was as impulsive and tyrannical as some feared — they wouldn't stand for it; they'd leave, and by leaving they'd show that this president was so bad they couldn't stay.
Every day, Venezuelans of all stripes pour into the streets protesting the loss of their freedom and their constitutional rights by a tyrannical regime that condemns them to scarcity, illness, malnutrition and outright hunger.
But Hobbes argued that any laws, even the laws of a tyrannical dictator, no matter how harmful they may be, confer some minimal non-excludable benefit on everyone that we can consume non-rivalrously.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 53%Synopsis: Forced to join the Hitler Youth of Germany in 1939, young university students Peter (Robert Sean Leonard) and Thomas (Bale) rebel against the tyrannical reign of the Nazi regime.
The Iranian threat has increased exponentially due to an influx of billions of dollars to the regime that resulted from the Obama administration's flawed nuclear deal that provided sanctions relief to a tyrannical regime.
And a long, sordid history of American malign influence – from overthrowing a democratically-elected Iranian government (for oil) to propping up a tyrannical regime – elevates national security to the forefront of the Persian psyche.
And as Jack Shafer recently pointed out, his dedication to ensuring submission began before he was an elected official—when he was the boss at a company notorious for its tyrannical treatment of employees.
The spiritual implications of abrogating native title and the multibillion dollar theft of native land underscores the difference between true freedom and becoming subjects to a tyrannical economic system and the worldwide police state.
In the days before he met Kim, Trump predicted that the talks would be "very productive" and said on Twitter that his tyrannical friend should take advantage of the "AWESOME" economic incentives for denuclearizing.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Sunday slammed President Trump as a "tyrannical" leader who is attempting to prop up a "dismantler" rather than a leader to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
She's whipped the people of King's Landing into a xenophobic fear of Daenerys Targaryen, the supposedly foreign-born (gasp!) daughter of the Mad King, come to enslave them all under a tyrannical dragon-backed rule.
And in "Animals" — the season's 12th episode, directed by Mad Men's Matthew Weiner — things come to a head when the women stage a peaceful protest against the policies of tyrannical guard Piscatella (Brad William Henke).
Like Logan, she doesn't need to be taken care of — she just wants to form an alliance to reunite with her makeshift mutant family, and get to the Canadian to escape a tyrannical United States.
Please ask them for help with this - I'm hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote.
"Defending our people must be done with the pride in the independent spirit and resolve that built our nation, not with the tyrannical impulses that were the very reason our country was created," he said.
Please ask them for help with this — I'm hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote.
Our nation revolted in opposition to the tyrannical rule of a king, and while the Framers understood the need for an energetic executive, they took pains to deny the new office of president unchecked power.
Pence said after talks with Abe in Tokyo on Wednesday that Washington would soon unveil its toughest ever economic sanctions on North Korea, calling the country the "most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet".
" Yet the court insisted on its authority to try him and he was convicted of "a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will.
In both these books, Jaeggy recounts a Swiss childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, seemingly a lot like her own: boarding school, a tyrannical grandmother, a divorced mother and father both geographically and emotionally remote.
The opening will also be attended by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who vowed tough new sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs on Wednesday and called it the world's most tyrannical regime.
If, for example, the Democrats controlled all of Congress instead of just the House, there would be no concerns about a Republican tyrannical executive, because Democrats in Congress could use their power to check that.
Particularly among the generation that grew up in the 1960s, embittered with their parents for enabling dictatorship and war, Lenz's novel elevated Nolde's "Unpainted Pictures" to symbols of heroic artistic resistance against a tyrannical regime.
In recent months, Mr. Kim has rebranded himself from an international pariah and tyrannical leader who ordered his own half brother executed to a smiling statesman, meeting with the leaders of China and South Korea.
He combined comedy and the tough-guy personality, and received the best reviews of his career, in "My Favorite Year" (1982), as King Kaiser, a tyrannical 1950s TV variety-show host modeled on Sid Caesar.
The tyrannical auteur of the zombie movie (Takayuki Hamatsu) is revealed to be a mild-mannered hack — his motto is "fast, cheap, but average" — who channels years of frustration into one glorious explosion of creativity.
The Queen of Crows by Myke Cole Myke Cole's The Armored Saint is one of my favorite books this year: it's set in an fantastical world where magicians are hunted by a fascist and tyrannical order.
It was a defining moment in U.S.-Iranian relations, essentially reinforcing to the world that Washington stood with Iran's tyrannical government and not with the millions of its subjugated citizens seeking Western-style democratic political reforms.
The history of American Christianity is full of prayer meetings in which the faithful bewail a nation adrift, and vow—like the tribes of Israel before them—to stand fast in the face of tyrannical rulers.
The chief justice, who had called the ruling "immoral, unconstitutional and tyrannical," had simply been defying the federal courts once again, they said, only this time he was directing 68 other officials to do it, too.
Instead, the game makes it clear that this kind of work, performed under a tyrannical boss who is trying to squeeze each worker for every last second and every last bit of effort, is profoundly unfulfilling.
Instead, most predict the country will remain carved up between warlords and a tyrannical regime, with little hope that the nearly 5 million Syrian refugees who have fled their homeland will have an opportunity to return.
But while this urge toward continual reinvention was a catalyst driving her intellectual voracity and her resistance to stasis, it was also a tyrannical voice telling her she needed to banish her inner child for good.
I read it almost every day, starting with the always entertaining letters to the editor, where the ignorant and misinformed produce tyrannical and byzantine solutions to the world's problems, as well as complaining about gas prices.
He may have labeled himself "Easy Dave" to the news media during labor talks in 1994, but behind closed doors he was known for his temper, and for an approach that some found tyrannical at times.
Part of The Hitman's Bodyguard problem may simply be its framing device: the trial of the tyrannical former Belarusian president Vladislav Dukovich (Gary Oldman), who's being tried in the International Criminal Court for war crimes and atrocities.
The promise of the gig economy—that it would empower workers to be their own bosses, liberate them from tyrannical office culture, and let creative types chase their dreams while maintaining a side hustle—is wearing thin.
That said, I would also say all of this is happening under a tyrannical, fascistic leader and in some ways I see a lot of this as a certain kind of getting up to speed on neoliberalism.
Growing up in the Free Cities of Essos, first under her brother's tyrannical control and then as a self-made queen, Daenerys learned to deal with her enemies cruelly to make sure no one would oppose her.
As the story approaches its climax, it quickly becomes clear that the clumsy effort to avert the next reign of terror is strikingly reminiscent of the tyrannical behaviour that Khrushchev and the praesidium were trying to escape.
Not one person challenged his assertion that the capacity to bear arms referred to the people's ability to form militias as a defence against a tyrannical government (much of the debate surrounded the question of religious scruples).
Editorial It is a familiar claim by many Second Amendment defenders — and, during the Obama administration, an increasingly popular one — that unfettered gun rights are necessary to protect American citizens against the threat of a tyrannical government.
And the proliferation of the app isn't simply a result of tyrannical superiors—people who rack up enough points can also reportedly use them to redeem discounts at some businesses or comped admission into some tourist spots.
Slate wrote:... Particularly in Facebook's case, deplatforming also has to align with a set of clearly articulated policies so that it isn't read as a tyrannical act of corporate censorship that will further inflame accusations of bias.
Republicans complain that the federal government spends too much money subsidizing insurance, that the range of options available to people shopping for insurance are too constrained by regulation, that the individual mandate is tyrannical, and so on.
The new corrections officers, led by tyrannical captain of the guard Desi Piscatella (Brad William Henke) are utterly unconcerned with the inmates as human beings with names and identities, and the new regime only reinforces that viewpoint.
Apparently poisoned by two young women as he walked through Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Kim Jong-nam's death appears to be the latest example of his tyrannical brother's enthusiasm for violence that is both bizarre and cruel.
She refers to the government's "tyrannical rape of our private data," a disturbing choice of words given fsociety's collaboration with Julian Assange's WikiLeaks and its own less than stellar track record with both rape and private data.
In 1832, during a performance of "Richard III" at the Bowery Theater in Manhattan, 300 boisterous audience members joined the cast onstage to participate in the final sword fight and the slaying of the tyrannical King Richard.
In a 20-page memo written by Trump's legal team and delivered to Robert Mueller, as reported by the New York Times this weekend, they make an unusually frank case for a tyrannical interpretation of presidential power.
Dictatorships will always have to fear their people as they get richer and better educated; tyrannical regimes can always splinter; and courageous opposition leaders will always rise up (though not, it would seem, in the Republican Party).
Part of the experience of growing up in his era was rebelling against his influence, and Mr. Neville gives some room to the satirists who pushed back against what could seem like a limiting and tyrannical niceness.
Tolstoyan ethics, which fused Christian anarchism with a refusal to partake in violence or evil, represented an individualism so tyrannical that it could not empathize with the erring human face as it learned to act over time.
A college student may intellectually savor Beckett's vision of the corrosive effects of time in its depiction of a tyrannical, blind and disabled man, Hamm (played by a deliciously splenetic Cumming) and his resentful manservant, Clov (Radcliffe).
Calls for the president's impeachment grow louder from the self-styled Resistance – increasingly strident folks on the left, some proudly calling themselves socialists – who act as if they are fighting a tyrannical enemy nation occupying the White House.
Jaslyk was opened in 1999 by the tyrannical Islam Karimov, who ruled the post-Soviet Central Asian country for a quarter of a century until his death in 2016, after bombings in Tashkent sparked a hunt for dissidents.
Fadell says "you can't make an omelet without braking eggs" and admits his style "may not be for everyone," but he stresses that he's been in the Valley for 25 years without a tyrannical reputation following him around.
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that Washington would soon announce new, tough sanctions to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile programs, calling it the planet's "most tyrannical and oppressive regime".
But what he finds is a land on the decline, devoid of most natural resources and run by the tyrannical chief Maham (Kabir Bedi), who is determined to mine all the gold in his kingdom to buy weapons.
Similarly, most experts believe that Kim will never agree to give up a nuclear program that he sees as a guarantee of regime survival against a hostile United States that he has demonized to solidify his tyrannical rule.
It is important on this symbolic anniversary, one marking the symbolic toppling of a tyrannical political system, that we remind ourselves of the important role each one of us has in protecting democratic freedoms and rejecting authoritarian impulses.
Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a budding journalist and personal assistant, suffers at the velvet-gloved hand of her tyrannical boss, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), in this adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's tissue-veiled portrait of the fashion magazine business.
In truth, it is an indictment of the policy, revealing that taxing those with the bad luck to die was an idea spawned by tyrannical regimes whose essential business model was the conquering and enslavement of other peoples.
Sailors soon complained that commanders could be just as tyrannical with bread and water — or as crews wryly call it, "cake and wine" — as they had been with flogging, and there were repeated attempts to end the practice.
That is the opportunity to appoint and approve a justice to the court who is empowered with a swing vote to give free rein to the hateful impulses of a tyrannical chief executive unchecked by an acquiescent Congress.
The series tracks Catherine over the course of her 34-year reign, as she evolves from an idealistic, vulnerable usurper warding off enemies on all sides into a tyrannical autocrat who no longer dreams of liberalizing the country.
History will not only record Trump as a corrupt, tyrannical demagogue, it will also record his staggering success: How one man with no political experience hijacked a major American political party and its tens of millions of loyalists.
He educated and empowered Tunisian women and allowed relatively strong civil society groups to emerge — trade unions, lawyers' syndicates, women's groups, who were vital to toppling Bourguiba's tyrannical successor and forging a new Constitution with Tunisia's Islamic movement.
I don't really watch my language much, which I should and I know I should, but it's like I said [in the initial email]: Years in the Navy and on the railroad, those are both high-stress, tyrannical environments.
We can impeach a president when his conduct subverts our form of government -- the rules and norms that make up our constitutional order -- and threatens tyrannical government by the chief executive without regard to the legislature or the law.
"Even in the United States and other free nations, some journalists, academics, public officials and saddest of all, young people, have developed and promulgated idealized, warped views of tyrannical regimes," General McMaster said this week at the Atlantic Council.
Ordinarily, this would be silly, but Drudge's conspiracy theory is dangerous because Hurricane Matthew is dangerous and real and it shouldn't be treated as a metaphor for our tyrannical government, or whatever the hell Drudge is trying to say.
Donner makes it clear that these dreams are not necessarily overblown hysteria, especially in the case of first- or second-generation Americans who have grown up hearing stories of tyrannical homeland regimes from family members who escaped for America.
Despite the anti-Federalist fears of a tyrannical central government, the Constitution does include another safeguard against this affront to liberty: Article V. Although never implemented, Article V gives states significant power that can — and should — be used today.
Though fans had plenty of complaints about the final season of "Thrones," Daenerys' downfall was particularly disappointing for many people, especially those who had come to see her as Westeros' last hope for "breaking the wheel" of tyrannical bloodshed.
The 29-year-old appealed to her 85 million followers on Twitter to express their support for her in an ongoing row over the ownership of her songs, and accused the executives of exercising "tyrannical control" over her music.
Read: In "The Patient Assassin," which recounts the life of a man seeking revenge for British brutality in India in 1919, Anita Anand poses a question: When is violence morally legitimate in a people's fight against a tyrannical regime?
This time around, Ms. Finamore ambitiously set out to track the steady, if occasionally zigzag, evolution of the ways in which most everything we think about fashion has been governed by that hoary and tyrannical old bogeyman — the binary.
Always tilted toward using American power to defend the defenseless, moderate the tyrannical, rescue the needy and inspire and strengthen the forces of decency — but when she loses the argument to do so in one country, she doesn't resign.
"In addition to further empowering and enriching Iran's tyrannical regime, Iranian accession to the WTO could seriously complicate our ability to combat Iran's support for terrorism, human rights violations, ballistic missile program and other illicit activity," the lawmakers wrote.
The centerpiece of this exploitative system would soon become the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a tyrannical practice of subjugation that went hand in hand with the underdevelopment of the African continent and of the indigenous people of the Americas.
In addition, from the moment he took office, Trump has shown a tyrannical willingness to invent his own version of the truth and to weaponize the federal government to serve his ego and pursue personal vendettas, large and small.
It hardly sounds revolutionary by today's standards to bring back kings — though the leadership vacuum left in the wake of Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 turned out to be more tyrannical than the aristocrats Cromwell and his allies deposed.
SURVIVORS OF THE tyrannical and rapacious regime of Ferdinand Marcos, strongman of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, are rejoicing at the prospect of his widow, Imelda—famous for her vast shoe collection—soon having to don prison-issue plastic sandals.
In line with his man-of-the-people persona on the campaign trail, Odinga has visited victims of police brutality in recent weeks and framed the current political battle as one between the disenfranchised masses and an increasingly tyrannical Kenyatta regime.
Her involvement with Rick recasts him as a leader comfortable in a coalition of equals, signaling that his current pivot away from the tyrannical impulses the show rolls out whenever it wants to complicate things might actually stick this time.
It's a thought-provoking hour, and one that ends on a cliffhanger: After finding a way to outrun the tyrannical captain of the USS Callister through a wormhole, the crew heads for new adventures in faux-space, free from their captor.
"We do not draw analogies to the rise of communism and fascism lightly, but both of those tyrannical movements rose to power replacing democratically elected governments, by virtue of threats of, or actual, violence against their opponents," the AJC said.
"Hold on Clark, I'm just gonna take a nap" There's a trope that appears in a few alternate universe comics, Injustice: Gods Among Us being the most recent, where Lois dies and in his grief Superman goes dark and tyrannical.
They reveal the rich and complex story of humanity -- showing a plural past of many peoples, ideas and faiths -- the very plurality that today's extremists typically seek to deny and to destroy in favor of a single, narrow, tyrannical vision.
President Trump's rollout of his ill-conceived executive order on immigration is evidence that the Framers were correct about human nature: Expect all those with power to be tempted to abuse it and those with unchecked power to be tyrannical.
"Debbie Meier said in one of her books that, without a powerful system of accountability, well-intentioned schools can easily become smug, secretive, tyrannical and even racist," said Elaina Watkins, who has three children at the school and supports Ms. Garg.
Fortunately, the founding fathers anticipated the likelihood of a tyrannical, spend-thrift central government — it is for incumbent state legislators to utilize the power granted to them under Article V to put the nation back on a fiscally sustainable path.
"Tourist travel to North Korea does nothing but provide funds to a tyrannical regime — that will in turn be used to develop weapons to threaten the United States and our allies," Wilson said in a statement, according to Yahoo News.
Swift's performance was hotly anticipated after the singer spoke out earlier this month, alleging that music industry executives Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun were "exercising tyrannical control" and sought to block her from performing her old music at the show.
Mr. Chesnut had a gift for illuminating the struggles of working people, like the beleaguered factory hand in "Oney," a song, drawn from his experience with a tyrannical employer, that became a Top 19813 country hit for Johnny Cash in 1972.
Based on the book by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths, Net Worth describes the beginnings of the formation of the NHL Players' Association in the face of tyrannical owners who exploit the players and bust their attempt to form a union.
Those on the left, if they truly want to right the havoc that Koch wrought, must firmly reject the idea that government is somehow inefficient, wasteful, or tyrannical, and instead unequivocally reclaim it as the best means of solving shared problems.
For employees, those victories came at a price in terms of dealing with Weinstein's tyrannical side; still, even many of them profess to have been surprised -- at least for a time -- when revelations began to surface about alleged sexual assaults.
The life of that sad human being, as Knausgaard's far-ranging and brilliant analysis implies, bears more than a little resemblance to that of Knausgaard himself: the tyrannical father, the grandiose dreams of cultural achievement, the humiliations and the poverty.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%Synopsis: In Ridley Scott's retelling of biblical mythology, Moses (Bale) defiantly rises up against the tyrannical rule of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton) as he plans to release thousands of slaves and lead them to freedom.
The winning political card today, as Mr. Trump has shown and Marine Le Pen may demonstrate in the French presidential election next year, is to lead "the people" against a "rigged system," Muslim migration and the tyrannical consensus of overpaid experts.
Guided by their tyrannical father, who warns them of "three principal dangers on their path to glory—premature shaving, pornography, and car driving"—they try to balance the pressure of potential athletic glory with the challenges of adolescence and early adulthood.
There's more than a dash of The Devil Wears Prada here, in Rick and Kirsten's tyrannical treatment of their underlings, as well as Charlie and Harper's conviction that pampering these mercurial monsters is the best way up the corporate ladder.
His policies have prompted the greatest exodus in the history of Latin America, stripped the country's institutions of their democratic guarantees and established a tyrannical state, where opponents are deprived of the most basic human rights, including the right to live.
Whether it's the wise words of an all-too "cool" housewife, the preferred salutation of a tyrannical sorority leader or a star lawyer's no-holds-barred philosophy, the quotes from these shows will ensure you'll always have just the right thing to say.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is open to talks with North Korea, but only to convey the U.S. stance that "the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet" must give up its nuclear weapons, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday.
Most importantly, the government can prevent rejuvenated communities from becoming segregated, tyrannical or corrupt by ensuring that national laws against discrimination apply to all communities, and that members have both the necessary information and the democratic right to oust bad local leaders.
Once we learn to ask, once we learn to presume that all children are competent to communicate on their own behalf, once we learn to believe victims, these tyrannical authority figures will no longer be able to abuse disabled children with impunity.
"Putin is pursuing the classic despot's strategy: He is invading neighbors and beating the drums of war in order to distract his own people from his ruinous and tyrannical rule," Council on Foreign Relations fellow Max Boot wrote in the LA Times.
There was a time in our history when limiting the possession of guns meant limiting our liberty — our ability to counterbalance a powerful central government that could fall into tyrannical hands; our ability to fend for ourselves; our ability to protect our families.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former chief financial officer of a company that licensed the name and recipes of the chef who inspired the tyrannical "Soup Nazi" character on the TV comedy "Seinfeld" pleaded guilty on Monday to tax evasion, according to court records.
In the new Netflix film "Set It Up," two personal assistants (played by Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell) come up with an unusual plan to keep their tyrannical bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) busy: Make them fall in love with each other.
In the same New York Times newspaper, whose editors have been unflinching advocates for this proposition, we know that this representation was as much of a lie as the idea that the tyrannical government of Iran would live up to any agreement.
Contrary to Mr. Nayed's claim of "tyrannical Islamist rule," many Libyan leaders, including the president of the Justice and Construction Party, a leading Islamist political party (of which I am a member), have worked hard to reduce tensions and make way for negotiations.
He was part of a group of 22 students at his school Wednesday morning who recited the Pledge of Allegiance, held pro-Second Amendment signs, and talked about how the Second Amendment was about defending against tyrannical government or any other threats.
Some American analysts claim this pattern is changing — that the young, western-educated leader of North Korea brings an awareness of western prosperity and a concern for his people that is diametrically different from the tyrannical impulses of his father and grandfather.
The West End show, which brings the anthems of Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman to life, tells the story of the young leader of a rebellious gang as he falls in love with the daughter of a tyrannical ruler of post-apocalyptic Manhattan.
This is the tyrannical regime that killed my aunt because she stood up for the rights of Honduran people — rights that include the most fundamental one we in the United States enjoy, the right to choose our elected leaders and hold them accountable.
Suddenly the program's chief impact would be the imposition of significant and unnecessary risks, such as leaked master keys, rogue TSA agents, and misuse by tyrannical governments, on the entire flying public who don't go to the inconvenience of using invulnerable luggage.
Vice President Mike Pence, who was visiting South Korea for the Olympics, has used increasingly hostile language against the North in recent days, calling it the most tyrannical regime on the planet and steadfastly avoiding interactions with North Korean delegates at the Games.
"Graveyard Shift" is a horror story about mutant rats, sure, but it's also about the power dynamics of the working class; the men in the story can't say no to their tyrannical boss, not if they want to keep collecting a paycheck.
Salahi also pushed him to research Western foreign-policy blunders—for example, that in 1953 the American and the British intelligence services had orchestrated a coup in Iran, overthrowing a popular Prime Minister in order to prop up a tyrannical, pro-Western Shah.
Indeed, not only is such thinking largely inconsistent with over 200 years of established American constitutional practice, but it also ignores and undermines the genius of the Constitution's framers, who saw the judiciary as perhaps the most important deterrent to tyrannical power.
And was the missile attack against a Syrian airbase, launched just after Mr. Xi and Mr. Trump met on Thursday evening, meant as a message to the Chinese that Mr. Trump is willing to use force unilaterally — and suddenly — against a tyrannical leader?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief financial officer of a company that licensed the name and recipes of the chef who inspired the tyrannical "Soup Nazi" character on the television comedy "Seinfeld" has been indicted for tax evasion, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday.
It's a sense that the basic contours of America's system, despite yawning inequality and the undeniably outsized influence of the rich over politics, is fundamentally just — and that the attempts to reform it are illegitimate efforts to impose tyrannical forms of majority rule.
The former television star was a huge part of the show, from host Stephen Colbert's opening monologue to the end, when "The Handmaid's Tale," about a dystopian future in which a tyrannical government has taken over the United States, was awarded best drama.
" As Hall explains, Aristotle, who lived "at close quarters with the tyrannical Macedonian royal family, the ruthless Phillip II and his scheming wives, concubines and lieutenants, all jockeying for position at court, seems to have meticulously observed the misery of immoral people.
Criticizing Trump for flouting congressional subpoenas and refusing to hand over information critical to their investigation, Democrats argued that impeachment was a much-needed check on a tyrannical executive who behaved like a king as he sought to undermine a US election.
"Tourist travel to North Korea does nothing but provide funds to a tyrannical regime—that will in turn be used to develop weapons to threaten the United States and our allies, as I saw firsthand on a rare visit to Pyongyang," Rep.
And while all of this reeks of self-serving publicity stunt on Tecate's part, what better way to mock a narcissistic billionaire's tyrannical immigration policy than by spending a shitload of money on ads and getting a ton of free publicity in the process?
Older Britons certainly don't show any desire to weaken public services, but perhaps the rise of terrorism in Europe and their memories of the Soviet Union and other tyrannical regimes in European history have aroused their nationalism and desire for more local government sovereignty.
The more charitable interpretation is that he simply believes in the so-called unitary theory of government, and this tyrannical theory that any president cannot obstruct justice, that as long as he believes that he didn't do anything wrong, he can stop an investigation.
There's a memorable meet-cute: Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), two attractive New Yorkers in their 20s, meet in the lobby of an office building where they both work as assistants for equally tyrannical bosses, played by Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs.
Through an AI-powered network of blockchain token dubbed REDL (or "red gold"), she controls an operation that enables her team to develop and collect decentralized data in the real world, secure from the needs of tyrannical governments such as that of King Robert.
"I put you on top, I put you on top / I claimed you so proudly and openly / And when times were rough, when times were rough / I made sure I held you close to me," he spits at the object of his tyrannical affection.
NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - The chief financial officer of a company that licensed the name and recipes of the chef who inspired the tyrannical "Soup Nazi" character on the television comedy "Seinfeld" has been indicted for tax evasion, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday.
It was interesting to me that the film seemed not to be just a one-way satire of how "traditional" heterosexual coupledom is lionized, but also how, in the form of Léa Seydoux's tyrannical Loner Leader, singledom can be fixated on to a similar degree.
"   Policies such as our one-sided support of Israel against Palestinian rights, support for tyrannical governments in the region such as Saudi Arabia, and the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan which they believe "has not led to democracy" but "only more chaos and suffering.
He was inspired by William Luther Pierce's 1978 futuristic white nationalist novel The Turner Diaries, which depicts a right-wing insurrection against a tyrannical, overreaching government that devolves into a nuclear tinged race war in which Jews, gays and non-whites are done away with.
My point is that maybe it's not the "I" that's the problem; maybe the "I", as a mode of expression, in image or writing, or music, for that matter, can be humble or tyrannical, generous or attention-seeking, conservative or revolutionary, and so on.
She's off to work for Lady Hideko (a sensational Kim Min-hee), a pale beauty who lives with her tyrannical uncle, Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong), a collector and purveyor of art and rare erotic books whose darting tongue has turned black from his ink pen.
The second right seems more salient than ever in Trump's America: That is the citizenry right, running from the English Bill of Rights of 1689 through our own Declaration of Independence on down to the Second Amendment, to protect itself from a tyrannical government.
Nadler said Trump's stonewalling of Congress in various investigations was "an assertion of tyrannical power by the president and that cannot be allowed to stand," although the congressman tiptoed around the question of launching the impeachment process to try to remove Trump from office.
And so it was as if in thrall to a tyrannical tyke that the fashion flock obediently followed the Marni designer Francesco Risso down a ramp leading to the bowels of a landmark 1950s Brutalist structure, the Torre Velasca, to see his spring 2019 collection.
In her book "The Allure of Toxic Leaders," the social scientist Jean Lipman-Blumen shows that people complain about political dictators and tyrannical executives yet nearly always remain loyal out of a primordial admiration for power and need for security in an uncertain world.
In the book, Seierstad portrays the inner workings of an Afghan family with whom she lived for several months: the patriarch's acquisition of a second wife, the perils of flirting in a conservative society, the tyrannical behavior of men and the suffering of women.
A favorite on the academic and experimental theater circuits, Ms. Silverman has traveled the globe and beyond in her work, to places as far-flung as a sexually tyrannical South Africa ("The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane") and a Japanese-American afterlife ("Crane Story").
Because Boston's snowpocalypse has finally reached its end Winter in New England is tyrannical to say the least, and so when we finally escape its dominion the only proper way to celebrate spring's arrival is to shed every possible layer, even those layers covering your delicate soles.
As the first of a planned series of projects adapted from Agatha Christie's works, the story follows the Argyll family when a man suddenly appears with the knowledge that the black sheep of the clan, Jack Argyll, did not kill their tyrannical matriarch like they all thought.
From the point of view here adopted, the important thing is that, in practice, the Athenian democrats regarded their democracy as the alternative to tyranny—to arbitrary rule: in fact, they knew well that a popular leader might be invested with tyrannical powers by a popular vote.
"We'll be there to cheer our athletes, but we'll also be there to stand with our allies, and remind the world that North Korea is the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet," Vice President Pence said during a news conference in Japan on Wednesday.
She is interested in the way the X-Files explores the human condition and paranormal activity,but she is also fascinated by her heroes Mulder and Scully, who risk their lives against a tyrannical shadow government intent on suppressing knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life.
A meeting between Gabbard and Assad in January has only heightened the critics' belief that she's acting as an apologist for a tyrannical leader known to employ brutal tactics, even against his own people, to keep a grip on power in the country's yearslong civil war.
There probably isn't much if any truth to the story — among other things, Catherine was too smart and tough-minded to be that easily deceived — but never mind: the legend has become a byword for the general idea of prettifying reality to please a tyrannical ruler.
Instead, we're told that she was a "sickly, fretful, ugly" baby, and that "by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived"; she bullied and slapped her ayah, her nurse, who disliked and feared her.
It has a moral responsibility to overcome the tyrannical atmosphere of 'ideas' that has so dominated life on Morningside for the last 20 years; it has a responsibility to make the political, philosophical, and ethical experience here as diverse and varied as the cultural and ethnic experience.
"We'll be there to cheer our athletes, but we'll also be there to stand with our allies and remind the world that North Korea is the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet," Pence said after a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday.
But even more ridiculous is the fact that Trump ran his campaign on the notion that we, as a nation, are too politically correct; that women and minorities who flag others for racist or sexist behavior are handmaidens of an overbearing, tyrannical PC culture that has subsumed our society.
As a 2015 New York Times story looking at Waco's influence on today's far right put it: For right-wing militias and so-called Patriot groups, Waco amounts to evidence of a tyrannical, illegitimate government unblinkingly prepared to kill its own people ... the specter of Waco has not faded.
The more charitable interpretation is that he simply believes in the so-called unitary theory of government, and this tyrannical theory that the President can never – any President cannot obstruct justice, that as long as he believes that he didn't do anything wrong, he can stop an investigation.
As John Pomfret, an American journalist, notes in his book, "The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom", hundreds of people, many of them educated in America, "became the conscience of their nation in opposing the tyrannical ideologies" of the KMT and the Communists from the 19963s to the 1940s.
Most but not all: Even these mild measures have been savaged by some, including those seeking the Republican presidential nomination, who insist that the President's decision to act on his own initiative, rather than waiting for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to tighten gun safety regulations, is unconstitutional -- even tyrannical.
But, when we testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, we heard not only from the gun lobby, but from United States Senators that expanding background checks will, not may, will lead to a registry, which will lead to confiscation, which will lead to a tyrannical government.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) released a statement late Monday responding to "tyrannical" President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE's decision to fire acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
Koch Industries responded to Business Insider's request for comment with a statement saying that Ed Koch agreed to work on a Hamburg refinery "six years before Germany invaded Poland" and that the businessman quit dealing with Nazi Germany "when it became clear that Hitler's government was a tyrannical regime."
They spend the first part of the show retelling, at considerable, convoluted length, the premise tying together the old fables: A woman named Scheherazade saved her life from the tyrannical King Shahriyar's cruel whims by keeping him hooked on the tales she made up night after night after night.
I was fascinated by the chance to meet the figure at the center of an enduring New Mexico mystery — in 1997, the right foot of a statue honoring the state's founder, a tyrannical conquistador, was amputated and stolen — but sources had led me on wild goose chases before.
This Spanish picture about an aging socialite, Anabel (Susi Sánchez), who's confronted by Chiara (Bárbara Lennie), the daughter she abandoned about 30 years before, when the girl was 8, is both a knotty character study and a dreamlike immersion into the almost tyrannical, gravitational pull of blood bonds.
Palombi, a former international security consultant for Chatham House, pointed to the UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia, which ruled in 2018 that the Khmer Rouge committed genocide -- 40 years after the collapse of Pol Pot's tyrannical communist regime, which was responsible for the death of 1.7 million people.
" Making a reference to Ben Franklin and the founding of the country, Nadler said the US is in a "time of testing whether we can keep a republic or whether this republic is destined to change into a different, more tyrannical form of government as other republics have over the centuries.
Older Britons certainly don't show any desire to weaken government public services like the National Health Service, but perhaps the rise of terrorism in Europe and their memories of the Soviet Union and other tyrannical regimes in European history have aroused their nationalism and desire for more local government sovereignty.
In my short demo, I was able to choose totally different paths to destabilize a tyrannical city-state; I choose a direct military approach that saw me dispatching Athenian generals, breaking a naval blockade, and recruiting more Spartan allies, but there was a separate, more measured approach that I didn't try.
Set a decade prior to the original Star Trek series, Star Trek Discovery follows the crew of the USS Discovery and disgraced Starfleet officer Michael Burnham as they contend with a war against the Klingons, and end up in the Mirror Universe, where they discover a tyrannical version of their world.
But if Trump falls for Kim's trap and, after indulging in the bonhomous moment of the summitry, prematurely relaxes sanctions — thus, legitimating and rewarding the world's most tyrannical leader — then his meeting with Kim will be yet another bleak moment in the inglorious annals of U.S. diplomacy vis-à-vis Pyongyang.
One of Enotiades favorite stories is the ancient Greek legend of Damon and Pythias, in which Damon offers himself as a hostage to the tyrannical king Dionysus I, so that his friend Pythias, who has been sentenced to death for plotting against the King, may visit his family to say goodbye.
It's a historical anomaly that the pardon power is even in the Constitution, considering that it is derived from royal grants of clemency and the framers of the Constitution, who had just revolted against a tyrannical king, were leery of putting too much power in the hands of a single person.
"When a ruler becomes tyrannical, we the people have the right to abolish government and institute new government based on the ideals that make us free," said Chris Hill of the Georgia III% Security Force, where he goes by the title General Holy War and the code name Blood Agent.
But it's still a lot of fun to obsess over him as some sort of evil-genius master manipulator and to look for his legacy in everyone from Aleksandr Dugin, Vladimir Putin's alleged ideological Rasputin, to Rosario Murillo, the powerful Rasputin-slash-first lady behind Nicaragua's tyrannical leader, Daniel Ortega.
For decades, the Kim dynasty has used diplomatic coercion and brinkmanship twinned with offers of talks and demands for concessions to cheat their way to a nuclear arsenal and preserve a tyrannical regime in defiance of the US. So there's a real chance Trump could be walking into a massive trap.
In an essay in the latest issue of The Claremont Review, Mr. Kesler calls Mr. Trump a "common-sense conservative" whose views on trade, immigration and foreign policy represent a return to the pre-New Deal Republican Party — more Calvin Coolidge 2.0 than the tyrannical Caesar "The Federalist Papers" warned against.
The daughter of a profligate entrepreneur from New Jersey and a well-to-do Mississippi woman, Varina was shipped off at age 17 from her home in Natchez to a plantation called the Hurricane, ruled by the tyrannical slaveholder Joseph Davis, whose gloomy brother Jefferson she married the next year.
One can't call them the next great rock band when dozens of scrappier outfits with similar influences exist in every small town across the Midwest, nor can one call them the next great arena-rock band when Arcade Fire is currently thrashing about under that genre's tyrannical yoke and U2 refuses to retire.
Taylor Swift's public feud with music industry executives Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun is raging on after she claimed they were "exercising tyrannical control" and blocking her from performing her old music at the American Music Awards, where she will be honored with the Artist of the Decade Award on Nov. 24.
Anand's account of the movement for Indian independence draws a contrast between the extremist path chosen by Singh and the nonviolent struggle led by Gandhi, posing a question that hangs over the pages of the book without being asked explicitly: When is violence morally legitimate in a people's fight against a tyrannical regime?
In the days leading up to his visit, Pence condemned North Korea, calling it the most tyrannical regime in existence and vowing to shine a spotlight on the country's oppression of its people, some of whom marched alongside their southern neighbors in the opening ceremony under a flag of a united Korean Peninsula.
As the first season has progressed, the series has grown into one of the most deftly executed dramas currently on TV. The show's sixth episode, "Which Side Are You On?" ended in heart-pounding fashion with Kendall Roy's (Jeremy Strong) failed attempt at staging a coup against his tyrannical father Logan (Brian Cox).
The tension has intensified between the Xi Jinping clique — including his old-school leftist and nationalist supporters who hail him as a hero — and those who oppose this tyrannical clique by advocating for political and civil rights and internet freedom, and include some within the CCP who embrace and defend Deng's reforms and policies.
"He is taking a Republican Party, a grass roots party that's spent 60, 70 years leading the war in the Cold War, hating the Russians for all their aggressiveness in the world and taking over the countries on the border and being tyrannical the way they are now and he has those people cheering against Western Europe,'" Matthews said.
Thus, Bundy and his fellow militiamen have seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge — located in a remote area some 50 miles southeast of the city of Burns — in hopes of creating a "base" where "patriots" like themselves can come, with their guns, to live and make their stand against the "tyrannical" federal government.
Because just as Negan explained to Gabriel that he inspires loyalty by inspiring fear and killing the "right" people instead of the most people (people are a resource, he repeated throughout the episode), Rick experienced the downside of not being a tyrannical dictator when he and Daryl couldn't agree on how to win the war after losing the Kingdom.
Rather than view Gorsuch as a tyrannical conservative activist who wants to impose on every part of the nation his personal political views, liberals should recognize Gorsuch has thus far been a crusader for individual rights, which means he would never support a federal law that deprives people of the liberty guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
Again, this would appear to suggest that modern western power structures are impervious to the storming-of-the-Bastille revolts that dominate high school history lessons, but as we've seen over the past few weeks, Trump's inauguration and his subsequent use of executive orders with tyrannical abandon have spurred a long-dormant spirit of activism into action.
Sheela indisputably turned out to be the most tyrannical, amoral, and ruthless of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's executive assistants so far, both in her conduct toward those outside the commune whom she perceived to be enemies of the Bhagwan and in her treatment of those inside the commune whom she perceived to be threatening to her own power and standing.
There is a way for us to make sure that lawful, responsible gun owners like yourself are able to use them for sporting, hunting, protecting yourself, but the only way we're going to do that is if we don't have a situation in which anything that is proposed is viewed as some tyrannical destruction of the Second Amendment.
"It was important to be here today to sit with defectors who have escaped the most tyrannical regime on the planet and hear their stories, and see the tears in their eyes and also to see the aftermath of the militarism that was once again on display in Pyongyang yesterday with one more military parade," Mr. Pence said.
This is a surpassingly strange slice of cinematic arcana, the product of a team of pro-Roosevelt filmmakers who rushed it into production to support the newly elected president and his Depression-era reforms; the fact that it actually seemed to support the fascist idea of a tyrannical executive was either lost on them or beside the point.
The Founders Proclamation praises America as a nation that promotes "liberty and justice over the evil forces of oppression and indignity" and cites two examples: "overthrowing tyrannical rule in the Revolutionary War" and "liberating Europe from Nazi control during World War II." These actions are a crucial component of American history and they should be studied and deeply understood.
While the original Heathers were classic prom-queen-type mean girls (and Shannen Doherty appears, as a link to that past), here the tyrannical trio represent groups that once would have been the object of their scorn, including a plus-sized girl (Melanie Field), a woman of color (Jasmine Mathews) and a gay boy (Brendan Scannell).
In the real world, the complexity of violence is even greater: A real appraisal of violence demands you contend with how it has shattered lives, yet also how it has protected them; how it has been a tool in the struggle against oppression, yet often works (whether performed or threatened, whether direct or indirect) to maintain the most tyrannical status quo.
Played by Annette Bening, Mar-Vell is a scientist who defected from the Kree during the Kree-Skrull War when she discovered the shameful secret: that the enemy Skrulls are actually a peaceful people who lost their home planet and are refugees searching for a new home, all because they don't want to follow the militaristic and tyrannical Kree rule.
Trump may have joined Republicans in their flamethrower criticism of the Obama presidency, but his focus was rarely on policy, or what some considered tyrannical expansions of executive power; he saw Obama as weak and ineffectual, tweeting that it was "almost like the United States has no president" and telling a biographer that the "natural ability" for success was missing from Obama's DNA.
You don't have to be much of a Freudian to read into the Jungle Books an attempt by Kipling to rewrite his own traumatic childhood, in which he was essentially abandoned by his parents and sent from India, the only place he had ever known, to England, where he was installed in a foster home run by a tyrannical Bible-spouter.
His willful personality, array of hot girlfriends, and sudden, wacky pronouncements (like "Call me The Artist..."—and they did) made him a rivetingly odd figure, like the tyrannical kid on that famous Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life," but one who was gently giggling over his power over the media, and generally using it to shake up banal ways of thought.
Problems do arise with this option, though if you're a tyrannical head of state who would like to buy a pop star to entertain your regime, you've got plenty of options: Beyonce', Mariah Carey, Kanye, 50 Cent, Lionel Ritchie, Black Sabbath, Elton John, Julio Iglesias, Sting, Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado, and Usher have all done it, and they seem to be doing just fine!
Against a backdrop of images of enraged white men carrying torches, which formed a kind of wallpaper that lined the room, Olujimi had also placed framed, hand-drawn watercolor images of white men and women who had attempted to kill sitting US Presidents — many of them lionized for acting based on their personal perceptions of being oppressed by a tyrannical government and its agents.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE compared the tyrannical regime to "small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention" in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America in July 2009.
It was frequently the funniest show on television — I don't think I laughed more at any line of dialogue this year than when a disgusted senator read, "You can't make a Tomlette without breaking a few Greggs" — but it was also full of crushing sadness and horror, as Succession made very clear that its characters all live in the shadow of patriarch Logan Roy's tyrannical abuse.
Chloë has indicated some in the above, and I agree with her that the painter paid insufficient attention to the primacy of her work's content over her own practiced, formalist approach, and that Hannah Black failed to recognize that her call to destroy the work was far too self-serving, opposing what she structures as a weak and apologist position against one that is tyrannical and vindictive.
With everything that's at stake in the Star Wars universe (the fate of the galaxy, an outmatched struggle against a tyrannical and totalitarian military regime hell-bent on dominating everything in its path, the quest to revive a mystical order of knights), it can be easy to forget that, at its core, it's a grand, sweeping adventure about a bunch of people, aliens, and robots living in space.
We can do that by reelecting President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and by electing members of Congress who will fight for our Constitution and fight for our rights for years to come so these tyrannical nightmares will never become a reality.
" Historian Philip Wayne Powell wrote of this smear campaign: "The basic premise of the Black Legend is that Spaniards have shown themselves, historically, to be uniquely cruel, bigoted, tyrannical, obscurantist, lazy, fanatical, greedy, and treacherous; that is, that they differ so much from other peoples in these traits that Spaniards and Spanish history must be viewed and understood in terms not ordinarily used in describing and interpreting other peoples.
The dispute culminated with Braun, who owns the master recordings to her first six albums after Swift signed with a new label last year, saying last week that his family had received numerous death threats as a result of the pop singer's accusations of bullying and tyrannical behavior The other artist of the year nominees are Drake, Ariana Grande, Halsey and rapper Post Malone, who led all comers with seven nods.
"Her supporters will celebrate her as a champion of women's rights, a patron of the arts and a beacon of social modernity, while her detractors will dismiss her as a monstrous power monger who played a key role in reinstalling her brother's dictatorial reign and benefited lucratively under his tyrannical rule," Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University, wrote in an article for Al Jazeera's website on Friday.
Until four months ago, the party tossed around words like "lawless" and "tyrannical" to describe a Democratic president who promulgated policies they disagreed with; they now absolve a Republican president with vast financial conflicts of interest, who obstructed an FBI investigation of his campaign, and breached national security to impress Russian government officials, on the grounds that at the presidential level, conflicts of interest, firing the FBI director and disclosing classified information aren't technically illegal.
The Hill's Ben Kamisar reports from Pence's Conservative Political Action Conference speech:  "For all the media fawning over the sister of the North Korean dictator, I think it's important that every American knows who this person is and what she's done," Pence said at the an annual conservative gathering outside of Washington, D.C. "The sister of Kim Jong Un is a central pillar of the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet," he added.

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