Tyranny

  • 61better a century of tyranny than one day of chaos — Ibn Taymiyyah (or Taimiya) was a fourteenth century scholar of Damascus; this saying seems to have originated in his Kitāb al Siyasa al Shar’iya (Book of Divinely Ordered [literally, ‘Sharia’] Politics) written c 1311–15 (see quot. 1966). 1966 F …

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  • 62The Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. II — Infobox Album | Name = Tyranny Off The Beat Vol. II Type = compilation Artist = Various Artists Background = Released = 1995 | Recorded = 1995 Genre = Industrial Length = Label = Off Beat Records Producer = Various Last album = This album = Next… …

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  • 63Stiletto Tyranny — The perils of vertiginously high heels, not least for catwalk models. Hilary Alexander made an impassioned call in The Telegraph for an end to “Stiletto Tyranny” following Prada’s Spring/Summer 2009 show: At least two models tripped and fell on… …

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  • 64tyrannous — tyranny ► NOUN (pl. tyrannies) 1) cruel and oppressive government or rule. 2) a state under such rule. 3) cruel and arbitrary exercise of power or control. DERIVATIVES tyrannous adjective …

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  • 65ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …

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  • 66The Experiment — was a documentary series broadcast on BBC television in 2002. It presented the findings of what subsequently became known as The BBC Prison Study (Reicher Haslam, 2006)BackgroundThe genesis of the programme was the 1971 Stanford prison experiment …

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  • 68The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2009 — This is a list of adult non fiction books that topped The New York Times Non Fiction Best Seller list in 2009. Date Book Author Publisher January 4 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Little Brown January 11 Outliers Malclom Gladwell Little Brown January… …

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  • 69political philosophy — Branch of philosophy that analyzes the state and related concepts such as political obligation, law, social justice, and constitution. The first major work of political philosophy in the Western tradition was Plato s Republic. Aristotle s… …

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  • 70Tyrant — In modern usage, a tyrant is a single ruler holding absolute power over a state or within an organization. The term carries modern connotations of a harsh and cruel ruler who places his or her own interests or the interests of a small oligarchy… …

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