Her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They had decided against the idea on the grounds that rich Chinese would "tyrannize" the poor Chinese and treat them far worse than did the Dutch. From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
Then doe they tyrannize at their owne rude swindges. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Insurers tyrannize doctors, they tyrannize patients. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Kreig: Will An Oct. 27 Hill Hearing Make History For Your Health Rights?] Reference
Shall tyrannize in Trinity, and domineer in 'John's.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittulae, Random Verses] Reference
Who should tyrannize, what persons, what ruling assemblies?. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
And because it turns out to be just an excuse to tyrannize. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2006] Reference
How the Incas began to tyrannize over the lands and inheritances. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
But they had no right to tyrannize over others, and tie them down to their own. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Barton] Reference
Why should a newsletter that I should probably be getting over RSS tyrannize me!. From Wordnik.com. [Cool Tool #2: Kill the Tyranny of the Urgent USE Inbox Zero Strategies] Reference
Zimbabwean officials the United States accuses of helping Mugabe tyrannize Zimbabweans. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Indeed, Miss Lucinda enjoyed the possession of one pet who could not tyrannize over her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
In most societies minorities frustrate and tyrannize others, but this is a far cry from dic - tatorship. From Wordnik.com. [DEMOCRACY] Reference
When we live primarily from the false self, when the ego is in control, we tyrannize others and our own hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Kabir Helminski: Does Religion Cause War?] Reference
“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.”. From Wordnik.com. [Obamideal: Magazine Photoshops Prez Image for Cover, Is It Ethical? - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState] Reference
One of them was the young doctor Francois Duvalier who, with; his son Jean Claude. would tyrannize Haiti for 30 years. From Wordnik.com. [No Way To Cut And Run] Reference
Old poisons that had spoiled his life in many ways and that he thought he had conquered crept back to tyrannize over him. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
And Tocqueville followed Jefferson and passed the news on to Mill that the majority could always tyrannize over minorities. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America] Reference
The desire of tyranny could scarcely be excited in the individual, the power to tyrannize would certainly not be delegated by. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Each part, as it became powerful, tried to tyrannize over every other party, and no one was allowed to preach without a license. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
A war of giants would not be imagined, until some men more robust than the rest had been seen to tyrannize over their fellow-men. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
We have no need of false revolutions In a world where categories tend to tyrannize our minds And hang our lives up on narrow pegs. From Wordnik.com. [Commencement Speech, Wellesley College] Reference
I knew that you would tyrannize, you always do whenever you get the chance, and very foolish I have been to give you the opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Thomas says, Once the king is established, the government of the kingdom must be so arranged that opportunity to tyrannize be removed. From Wordnik.com. [Was Aquinas a Whig?] Reference
They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. From Wordnik.com. [Socrates (469-399 B.C.)] Reference
And she says, ` Please, when you make your new laws for this new country, remember the ladies, and don't allow men to tyrannize over them. From Wordnik.com. [Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America] Reference
The national government was to be strong enough to protect us from each other and from foreign enemies, but not so strong as to tyrannize us. From Wordnik.com. [How to Read the Constitution] Reference
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831] Reference
No one was allowed to tyrannize over the weak, and morality was enforced by rules, and any infraction of these regulations was severely punished. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
In other words, we have ceased trying to free man only from the tyranny that things force on him, but also of secular ideas which still tyrannize him. From Wordnik.com. [CEREMONY MARKING THE CENTENNIAL OF CUBA'S STRUGG] Reference
Well, I applaud that community for refusing to give in to criminals who tyrannize the neighborhoods with their guns and took their children's freedom away. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Weekly Radio Address] Reference
The people, through their chosen representatives, wielding the whole power of the national organization, could not be expected to tyrannize over themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It had given him a perverse sort of pleasure to tyrannize all the people who had expected him to by a tyrant and who had repulsed all his efforts to be otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
Today's ruling codifies the right of the majority to tyrannize the minority -- at the very least whereit concerns denyinglegal status topeople who happen to be homosexual. From Wordnik.com. [14 Amendment: R.I.P.] Reference
Today's ruling codifies the right of the majority to tyrannize the minority -- at the very least where it concerns denying legal status to people who happen to be homosexual. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Malloy: 14th Amendment: R.I.P.] Reference
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