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In fact, China’s courtship of resource-rich Third World tyrannies and its recent step toward the weaponization of outer space undermines its carefully crafted new image as a paragon of “harmonious” social development.
So far, the Brexit debate in Britain has been almost entirely emotional, focusing on the historical greatness of Britain, the horrors of foreign tyrannies, or, conversely, fears of what might happen if the status quo were to be upset.
To neo-conservative ideologues, it is the democratic oasis in a desert of tyrannies.
Nor have former British colonies like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada become tyrannies.
So why is it that tyrannies like Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe are members of this Commission?
Because of these stands, Palme has often been portrayed as a consistent adversary of tyrannies.
For a long time, it was a losing struggle, marked especially by the spread of both communist and anti-communist tyrannies.
Bush is right to assert that repressive regimes can no longer hide behind a cloak of sovereignty: what goes on inside tyrannies and failed states is of vital interest to the rest of the world.
Such, it seems, is the ironclad certainty that grounds most tyrannies all over the world – anything their subjects are or have, they sustain or retain at the whim of the regime.
How can mere vigilance, insistence on the rule of law in the face of armored, entrenched tyrannies, ever make a difference?
Not only does it shine, it illumines; it actually begins to melt tyrannies.
He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.
All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.