Frazier was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1987, joining four teammates from the 1973 championship team: Reed, Jerry Lucas, Bill Bradley, and Dave DeBusschere. 1  Great Basketball Players.
British English: tyranny NOUN. A tyranny is a cruel, harsh, and unfair government in which a person or small group of people have power over everyone else.He described these regimes as tyrannies and dictatorships.
The Oxford English Dictionary offers alternative definitions: a ruler, an illegitimate ruler (a usurper), an absolute ruler (despot) or an oppressive, unjust or cruel ruler. The term is usually applied to vicious dictators who achieve bad results for the governed. The definition of a tyrant is cursed by subjectivity. Oppression, injustice and cruelty do not have standardized measurements or thresholds. The Greeks defined both usurpers and those inheriting rule from usurpers as tyrants.