Sentence examples for sedition to from inspiring English sources

In 1820 he was forced by military sedition to return to constitutionalism during the Liberal Triennium (1820 23).

In a speech on 7 June commemorating the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, he urged Iranians to vote, warning: "They [enemies of Iran] wish either a low turnout in the election or sedition to emerge afterwards".

The laws, passed during Turkey's efforts to meet criteria for membership in the European Union, would have let Mr. Erdogan, who was banned from Parliament after his conviction for Islamist sedition, to run in interim elections next year.

"We wish to feel the rock of the waves," the king says, impatience agitating a stomach already on the verge of sedition, "to know the kiss of the wind.

The government is using draconian laws, including those against sedition, to prosecute opposition figures, and this week it banned a member of Parliament for one year after he called the prime-minister-in-waiting a murderer.

As he describes it, early Islamic lore (whose precedents can't be ignored) is overwhelmingly concerned with the avoidance of fitna, a term that can mean many undesirable things from sedition to confusion to war or anarchy; Islam deplores (though you can argue about how severely it seeks to punish) any kind of speech that leads to or in itself amounts to fitna.

Criticism of the regime was thus tantamount not only to sedition, but also to treason.

"The authorities use sedition laws to curtail free speech and also concoct criminal cases to lock up critics of the government".

Carlson is thought by some people-including O. John Rogge, a prosecutor in the mass sedition trial-to be the country's most gifted private investigator of Right Wing subversives, and it perhaps significant, in trying to evaluate.

Some commentators and legal experts fault the government for exploiting the colonial-era sedition law to silence its opponents, when it should instead have left university rectors to manage what they say is no more than exuberant student debate.

Five years ago Mr. Erdogan was jailed for sedition, leading to the political ban.