Translation for '
tyrannical' from English to Hungarian
ADJ | tyrannical | more tyrannical | most tyrannical | |
SYNO | authoritarian | autocratic | despotic | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- The Reverend James Boyer (1736–1814) was the tyrannical headmaster of Christ's Hospital from the years 1778 to 1799.
- Special Note: Bouillabaisse is likely based on French conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte, what with his short stature and tyrannical nature.
- The plot revolves around a madcap inventor who constructs a mechanical gunfighter to fight against a tyrannical crime lord.
- A sequence of two novels, starting with the first interstellar flight made by humans escaping a tyrannical civilization on Earth.
- Beccaria cited Montesquieu, who stated that "every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity is tyrannical".
- Salazar and Almíndez soon ousted Zuazo, and began a tyrannical and criminal government.
- In modern times, the term is also applied to earthly tyrannical power, as implied in surah An-Nisa verse 60.
- In terms of the Christian tradition, the KD maintain, a tyrannical government has no moral right to govern, "and the people acquire the right to resist".
- In William Tenn's short story "Brooklyn Project" (1948), a tyrannical US Government brushes aside the warnings of scientists about the dangers of time travel and goes on with a planned experiment - with the result that minor changes to the prehistoric past cause Humanity to never have existed, its place taken by tentacled underwater intelligent creatures - who also have a tyrannical government which also insists on experimenting with time-travel.
- Chingichngish (also spelled "Chengiichngech", a tyrannical ruler of the first beings, who was poisoned by his sons.
- An older version of Lady Quark becomes one-half of the tyrannical ruler of L.E.G.I.O.N.
- He is considered by many as "Nicaragua's most tyrannical leader", and is viewed in that light.
- Human diplomats stationed on the planet Rejoicing teach the porcupine-like natives to revolt against their tyrannical emperor.
- The term now implies tyrannical rule. Despotism can refer to any absolutist or dictatorial regime or leader that uses their power in a cruel manner.
- The death of Msiri ended a rule that had become tyrannical, but also destroyed political stability.
- The terms "maharajalela" (in Malay language), and "merajalela" (in Indonesian language), to describe tyrannical rule, stem from his name.
- "Sic semper tyrannis" is a Latin phrase meaning "thus always to tyrants". In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown.
- In the 14th-century French epic poem [...] , a tyrannical lord claims the [...] unless he receives part of the bride's dowry.
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