Sentence examples for sedition by from inspiring English sources

Acts of sedition by the Jews against their conquerors were met with swift execution.

Godolphin had Sacheverell tried for sedition by the House of Lords, but Londoners rioted in sympathy with the defendant.

In a case that has outraged human rights advocates, Dr. Binayak Sen was sentenced Friday to life imprisonment on charges that he committed sedition by aiding Maoist rebels.

Although he had no connections with that organization and he had had no part in the insurrection, Rizal was arrested and tried for sedition by the military.

Now derided as a lackey of "the Hindu Raj," Ghaffar Khan was imprisoned and charged with sedition by Islamabad's new masters.

After serving as a representative of the Livonian landowners to the Swedish court in 1690 91, Patkul was arrested and sentenced to death for sedition by the Swedes in 1694 for airing the Livonians' grievances over land questions.

WESTPORT Westport Country Playhouse "Sedition," drama by David Wiltse, directed by Tazewell Thompson.

That was the eventuality raised last month by a prominent general in the Revolutionary Guard, who described the "sedition" faced by the country as "deeper and wider" even than that of four years ago.Even if the elections pass off relatively smoothly, whoever replaces Mr Ahmadinejad will inherit daunting problems caused by sanctions.

The United States government charged that Mr. Powell had violated wartime sedition laws by printing false statements.

The country's clerical rulers say the protests in the poll's aftermath were an attempt at sedition led by America and Israel.

Human rights campaigners in Iran, speaking on condition of anonymity, say state repression has intensified in the runup to the polls on 14 June amid authorities' concern of a repeat of the anti-government protests that followed the 2009 election, which was described as a sedition led by the country's foreign enemies.