Analysts foresee two possible outcomes: brutal tyranny (the optimistic scenario) or bloody civil war.

In Haiti, events took a similar course as Francois Duvalier took advantage of American reluctance to intervene to implant an even more brutal tyranny.

The movement grew out of the horrors of World War II and the brutal tyrannies that darkened the rest of the 20th century.

If the American invasion was unjust, the Hussein government's war to perpetuate an unjust brutal tyranny was no better.

The film tells the story of how the animals of a farm successfully revolt against its human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves.

Many have wondered why revolutions aimed at increasing liberty so often end as brutal tyrannies.

A power broker, even if that power was said by some to be chimerical and the House itself a sop - a mask to brutal tyranny.

You mean the same people upon whom the West has imposed brutal tyrannies - till yesterday?

Experts debated whether he would be remembered more for his brutal tyranny or for his corruption and plunder of the economy.