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We have no idea exactly what emerged from such interbreeding but apparently in some cases it led to a sort of 'giantism', Nephilim and benei anak, who proceeded to terrorize and tyrannize others.

Sons of God, daughters of men?

The Arab political entities prefer to manage the next election on the basis of Arabic sects that abide by the idea of Arabic nationalism, which existed over the 80 past years in Iraq to tyrannize Kurds, Mantik explained.

Kurds yet to make alliances for January elections

Profoundly undemocratic (a minority of a third can tyrannize the majority), the two-thirds rule mixes like a witch's brew with California's penchant for special-interest ballot initiatives that distort budget-making.

California's agony can't be ignored

He dares to make a stand against those who would tyrannize the weak, culminating in a battle against a chaotically malevolent Baron and his martial arts expert sister, (with an amusingly indecent finale

The Prince of Heroes Chapter 1

It doesn't target the oppressors, but the "go along to get along--or to prosper" crowd who enable the oppressors to tyrannize.

Violence and nonviolence part 8

His casting of a middle-aged Goneril (Nancy Palk) and Regan (Brenda Robins) to tyrannize the visibly-younger Cordelia (Patricia Fagan) hinted at a bitterness that found its origins in blended family life.

King Lear

Conrad, in discussing Walser's attack on the unnamed "Meinungssoldaten" who allegedly tyrannize public discourse on the Holocaust, makes the rather extreme claim that "Walser is doing exactly what the Third Reich did, that is, depicting Jews as the oppressors of Germans"--since most of the intellectuals to whom he refers are non-Jewish Germans.

Parkes, Stuart, and Fritz Wefelmeyer, eds. Seelenarbeit an Deutschland. Martin Walser in Perspective

Second, the academy seems to tacitly accept that one religious culture--90 percent of cadets are Christian--may tyrannize the other.

Religious bias at the Air Force Academy: the press weighs in

Even more crucial, Wollstonecraft's novels not only analyze the social and psychic conditions that tyrannize, even dehumanize, women but, in and through their modes of representation, gain sympathy for women's situation and thus a precondition to changing it.

Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy: "An Eve to Please Me."

Another example is the view that in the absence of trade unions, employers will not exploit or tyrannize their employees.

Rick Tilman. Ideology and Utopia in the Social Philosophy of the Libertarian Economists

Whether to tyrannize or simply tidy up, sweeping away newspapers diminishes access to a free press