Sentence examples for seditious act from inspiring English sources

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In this way, communicating with people outside our prescribed societal sphere feels to me like a deliciously seditious act.

Considering the distribution of such material a seditious act, the authorities instituted reforms and replaced several staff during Marx's attendance.

Another writer noted that "the U.S.' stand-ins are the perpetrators, and not the victims" and described this reversal as "the movie's most seditious act".

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Others like him wield knives while spouting heated rhetoric calculated to inflame followers to seditious acts like "severing the head from the body" and "braising short ribs with onions, carrots, garlic and red wine in a 350-degree oven for three hours".

When, in October 1795, crowds threw refuse at George III and insulted him, demanding a cessation of the war with France and lower bread prices, Parliament immediately passed the "gagging acts" (the Seditious Meetings Act and the Treasonable Practices Act, also known as the "Two Acts").

Following the trials and an attack on George III, conservatives were successful in passing the Seditious Meetings Act and the Treasonable Practices Act (also known as the "Two Acts" or the "gagging acts").

In particular, the Seditious Meetings Act prohibited groups of more than 50 people from assembling to discuss any political subject without prior permission from the sheriff or magistrate.

There is some evidence to suggest that in the period of social unrest that followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and which saw the introduction of the Seditious Meetings Act, gatherings of botanists may have been used as cover for the activities of politically radical reformers such as Samuel Bamford.

When Cooper, who served as his own counsel, tried to prove that everything he said about Adams was true (since only false statements defaming the government were, by the terms of the act, seditious), the court refused his request to subpoena the President, found the printer guilty, and sentenced him to six months in prison.

She also reminds the judge that Kamble had earlier received a warning, under the Dramatic Performances Act, for staging "seditious material".

But López Rivera was himself convicted of seditious conspiracy rather than an act of violence.

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