In Gao Village, the reunited family endured the petty but absolute tyranny of the local party boss, a venal, sadistic drunk.

He forged order out of chaos and built a nation state at the terrible price of absolute tyranny.

But the gut- tergangs were too entrenched to be rooted out by any- thing short of complete cataclysm or absolute tyranny.

"The history of mankind," Stanton proclaimed, "is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her."

Killing the Teleks seems a small price to pay for security against absolute tyranny.

"The history of the present government of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations all designed to establish an absolute tyranny over the people."

The reason for the filibuster is to prevent exactly the kind of situation in which we now find ourselves, which is the absolute tyranny of the majority over the minority.

This was the gauntlet thrown down by the 1848 convention that was modeled on the Declaration of Independence to underline the disparity between the privileges of men and the "absolute tyranny" suffered by women.

A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of the Turks.

The three looked on if silently, thinking greedy thoughts of the vast energies waiting for them on Earth, exulting in the contemplation of the absolute tyranny they could establish.