Assertion: execution | /r/CapableOf | pronounce sentence
Facets:
value: against one tyrant
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: against tyranny
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Still others view it as a vital step towards democracy in Britain, with the prosecutor of Charles I, John Cook, declaring that it "pronounced sentence not only against one tyrant but against tyranny itself" and Whig historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner, who wrote that "with Charles' death the main obstacle to the establishment of a constitutional system had been removed.
text: Charles's prosecutor, John Cook, published a pamphlet defending the execution of Charles, giving "an appeal to all rational men concerning his tryal at the High Court of Justice", in which he asserted that the execution had "pronounced sentence not only against one tyrant but against tyranny itself".