BACK IN the days of the tyranny of distance, the primal terror of Australians was the fear of abandonment.
While the abolitionist movement was fighting a tradition of tyranny against the African-American, the women's movement was fighting a tradition of protection.
That skirts the moral question of humanitarian assistance in the crowded 21st century, which is how to resolve the tyranny of the present and ensure the kind of help that will safeguard the future.
They lived underneath a crushing tyranny.
You will not look upon tyranny and injustice in faraway placesas the inevitable tragedy of mankind's fallen nature.
I'll be a President who harnesses the ingenuity of farmers and scientists and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all.
"We see then as they were: as the opening of a new twilight struggle between hope and fear, peace and hatred, freedom and tyranny - a struggle that has now finally, fully been joined," said Rice.
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
These controls reduce the risk of the tyranny, but also create a system that is ill-fitted to respond to the rapidly evolving needs of citizens living in a digital life.
Relativism does not entail that we should tolerate murderous tyranny.
So just over half the cantons, which might represent a minority of Swiss voters, can overrule the majority in a referendum, thus addressing Madison’s worry about majoritarian tyranny.
Humanity can avert climate catastrophe without accepting ecological tyranny.
It seems likely that he did not want live through it: to see the Tunisian revolution triumph and prove that nation and society were and will remain stronger than tyranny.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
The tyranny of evil men...
The French film industry is more often given to introspective agonising about American cultural imperialism or the tyranny of the market than to self-congratulation.
Years ago, an Australian historian proposed that the key to understanding Australia was “the tyranny of distance”.
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