I noted specifically how the government refused to apply air travel restrictions in 2014 to nations where the outbreak had taken hold when they could have stopped the spread in its tracks. The point is the creation of an “invisible enemy” that the populace cannot quantify and defend itself against without constant government oversight. And this could be ANY viral outbreak, not just Ebola. My immediate concern was the way in which a viral outbreak could be engineered or exploited as a rationale for a level of social control that the public would never accept under normal circumstances. Send us feedback.Back in 2014 during the Ebola scare in the US I published an article warning about how a global pandemic could be used by the elites as cover for the implementation of an economic collapse as well as martial law measures in western nations. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tyranny.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Ginia Bellafante, The New York Review of Books, While the assembly, now in its 75th year, is usually considered a dry, technocratic event, this year it is being framed by conspiracy theorists as a key moment in the battle between democracy and tyranny. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 June 2022 With its warnings against government tyranny and ideological cultists, Costa-Gavras’s classic is newly relevant.Īrmond White, National Review, 15 June 2022 Under the book’s tutelage, pregnancy became its own occupation and tyranny. Lee, National Review, Here the setting is a speculative American future ravaged by the familiar dystopian features of environmental collapse, technological tyranny and lawlessness. Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 July 2022 To stay in the business, captains and crew must absorb varying degrees of petty tyranny.Įvan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 Before then, the courts, the Justice Department, and historians had long viewed the Second Amendment as protecting only the rights of states to field a militia, as a check on federal tyranny.ĭavid Cole, The New York Review of Books, 8 July 2022 China has abused its powers to keep a country that, unlike it, managed the disease without tyranny out of discussions about global health going forward. Recent Examples on the Web Eragon and Saphira set out to defeat Galbatorix and free the land of Alagaësia from his tyranny.
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