Searching for the word tyranny in Senate within the 1970s…
The word tyranny
- appears in 0.1% of speeches
- appears 107 times in 81 speeches
- was spoken on 70 sitting days by 34 different people
- appears in speeches on 70 different topics
Top speakers:
- CARRICK, John (22 uses)
- HANNAN, George (12 uses)
- CAVANAGH, James (8 uses)
- BUNTON, Cleaver (5 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (4 uses)
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Top days:
- 20 September 1972 (7 uses)
- 20 September 1973 (7 uses)
- 6 August 1974 (4 uses)
- 13 November 1979 (4 uses)
- 18 September 1974 (3 uses)
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Top topics:
- ADJOURNMENT: Terrorist Activities - Law and Order (5 uses)
- QUESTION: TREATMENT OF POLITICAL DISSIDENTS (5 uses)
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (5 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT (4 uses)
- QUESTION: SENATE (REPRESENTATION OF TERRITORIES) ACT 1973 (4 uses)
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Associated words:
- potential tyranny (4 appearances)
- communist tyranny (3 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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I suggest that we should consider carefully all the theories that have ever been put forward on the tyranny of the majority before we say that those facts alone negate the right of the Senate to exist.
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I should like to say to Senator Wright that democracy is the opposite of tyranny and oppression and to give way in this instance would be tyranny in its worst form.
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We believe that it is possible to have a just society without the oppression that has been practised in the Soviet Union and we are not heard to condone the tyranny that is practised in that country on individuals or in Russia’s relationships with other countries.
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I hope it does work and that we do not develop a new age of tyranny by trade unions.
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These people were driven across the world by cruel events and the tyranny of a cruel invader.