Sentence examples for executed as a spy from inspiring English sources

It was from Norwalk that Nathan Hale crossed Long Island Sound to Long Island, where he was captured by the British and executed as a spy.

The development came amid angry and polarised political opinion in America over WikiLeaks, with some conservatives calling for the organisation's founder, Julian Assange, to be executed as a spy.

He was tried and sentenced to be executed as a spy, but the sentence was overturned and a new trial was ordered in March 2012, which Iranian rights experts said appeared to be part of a calculation on Iran's part to use him as political leverage in its broader disputes with the United States.

May 2, 1750 London, England October 2, 1780 Tappan, New York John André, (born May 2, 1750, London, England died October 2, 1780, Tappan, New York, U.S ., British army officer who negotiated with the American general Benedict Arnold and was executed as a spy during the American Revolution (1775 83).

Mr. Jalali said: "To go in more or less alone after so much publicity, and after the Taliban issued a decree saying that anyone caught working with the king and the West would be executed as a spy, was a serious miscalculation.

He was furious when Dos Passos gave up on the fighting after learning that a close friend had been mistakenly executed as a spy: "What's one man's life at a time like this?" But in The Fifth Column, the play that Hemingway wrote in Madrid as the shells crashed around him, he portrayed Spain as a nightmare in which innocent men were killed by mistake.

He was given a show trial and executed as an imperialist spy in 1948.

At least 10 CIA agents within the Soviet Union were executed as a result of Ames's spying; ultimately, he revealed the name of every U.S. agent operating in the Soviet Union (after 1991, Russia).

He was eventually executed as a traitor.

A HALF CENTURY after the Rosenbergs were executed as atom spies, there's really only one nagging question left about the case: Why did two seemingly ordinary people from Manhattan's Lower East Side sacrifice their lives for a distant cause when it meant orphaning the two young sons they claimed to love?

Some government investigators even suggested that once it was fully understood, Mr. Lee's role was comparable to that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as Soviet spies in 1953.