Sentence examples for amounts to treason from inspiring English sources

"This amounts to treason," said Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwe's justice minister, local news media reported.

The Sudan Tribune called the deal a "breakthrough" for opposition forces, but Hassabo Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, Sudan's second vice president, said the call amounts to "treason to the homeland".

"These two defendants have committed what amounts to treason against the people of the City of New York and their fellow police officers," said Judge Jack B. Weinstein of United States District Court.

That amounts to treason, since the man, Longaville by name and winningly played by Bryce Pinkham, has taken a solemn vow with his pals to have nothing to do with women.

In it, Watkins declares that opposition to guns rights amounts to treason, and "it's punishable by death".

"Participating in this election would amount to treason against the mujahedeen," he said.

Of the myriad rebel groups fighting in Syria, at least a score are boycotting the conference, declaring that to attend would amount to treason.

Re "The Alarming Age of Surveillance" (editorial, June 12): I agree that Edward J. Snowden's disclosures "do not amount to treason".

Members of Congress have denounced him as a "defector" whose actions amount to treason and have demanded he be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Hardline nationalists say the signing of the deal would amount to "treason", but the political analyst Misa Brkic said: "This manoeuvre has the aim to trick people and to bring reforms to a standstill".

In 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I, Haywood was arrested in Chicago, along with scores of other IWW members, and he was convicted the following year on charges amounting to treason and sabotage.