tyrannize

1 But the effect it produced on me was tangible, ponderable; it tyrannized over my imagination and drove it into corridors of thought as sombre as that in reality before me.

2 And yet Mrs. Haines tyrannized over us in her own fashion, and her tyranny was the more unbearable because it had no end except to spare herself trouble.

3 In the conduct of life, the strong are almost sure, not only to neglect the weak, but often to tyrannize over them; they become selfish and not unfrequently covetous, and require much for little.

4 “Lots of companies have been tyrannized by an overly powerful CEO,” said John Coffee, director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School.

5 There was a simple reason voters kept the write-in campaign under the radar, Cecere said: “They kept quiet because they feel tyrannized and bullied.”

6 Only to tyrannize behind the scenes and invariably whack others for his mistakes — coaches, general managers, executives by the score finding themselves slurred and slimed and used as human shields.

7 In such cases it is not society that tyrannizes the individual; it is the individual that endangers society.

8 The mechanics of Shakespeare’s plot — unfolding first in rigid, tyrannized Sicilia and then in pastoral, sunnier Bohemia — hinge on our rooting for the characters Leontes so cruelly censures.

9 God be with all such souls, and those also who despise the power of tyrannizing in turn over their fellow-beings.

10 The strong should not tyrannize the weak.

强者不该欺压弱者。

11 True, an island tyrannized by labor unions some 1,200 miles from Florida with an annual per capita income of $29,000—and a bankrupt state-owned electricity monopoly—presents special challenges.

12 In the 18th century, colonists speculated that a British statesman — John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, was a behind a cabal to tyrannize Americans.

13 The other half of Britain—the 16 million people who voted Remain—feel tyrannized by the slimmest of majorities.

14 In such societies, counters Madison, a majority will tyrannize the minority.

15 “Respect on its own is cold and inert, insufficient to overcome the bad tendencies that lead human beings to tyrannize over one another,” she wrote.

16 Esther was a Frenchwoman, who had lived with ‘Madame’, as she called her mistress, for many years, and who rather tyrannized over the old lady, who could not get along without her.

17 But if you've ever felt tyrannized by the rigidity of following a recipe in the past, I hope these make-do days of late have shaken you free.

18 “The war he had been sold was a lie, he thought, a con spun from the desire in the American heart to spread freedom and liberate the tyrannized peoples of the world,” the authors write.

19 The protector of the English republic, Cromwell, tyrannizes over it, and renders it powerful: but Cromwell dies, and Monk delivers England up to Charles II.

20 There was consolation in our solidarity — in objecting to those who segregated some of us and tyrannized the rest.

1 压制

grinding tyrannical heavy-handed inhibiting tyrannous interdictory repressively force oppression coercion repressiveness terrorization throttlehold sit domineer throttle tame constrain smother oppress coerce overrule bate with an iron hand with a heavy hand keep under control keep under sit upon ride over hardhanded hardship conquest repression stranglehold withhold ride bow squash restrain crucify overbear oppressive suppressive control inhibition squelch clampdown master govern suppress overlay cork neutralize extinguish quench subdue strangle quell quash

2 横行霸道

bully play the bully

3 压迫

grinding pressed press pressure stress pinch oppression yoke bear force ride squeeze grind oppress overweigh bring pressure to bear press upon force majeure put pressure bear down upon put upon

4 欺压

pussy-whip henpeck rack

5 专横

arbitrary tyrannical haughty dictatorial imperious domineering supercilious high-handed with a high hand