Sentence examples for seditious action from inspiring English sources
The United States Supreme Court reversed their conviction, ruling that for the Smith Act to have been violated, a person must have advocated for a specific seditious action and not just held seditious beliefs.
"This seditious speech and subversive actions toward [Dr. Yahagi] and C.M.C. is deliberate and calculated," Dr. William T. Campbell Jr., a staff cardiologist and one of the defendants in the suit, wrote in a March 2010 e-mail included in the court file connected with the case.
The jurist John Selden was jailed there in 1629 for his involvement in drafting the Petition of Right, a document limiting the actions of the King, regarded as seditious although it had been passed by Parliament.
The sovereign retains full discretion to determine which actions are acceptable and what forms of speech are seditious.
During the First World War, when Hand was still a district-court judge, he struck down parts of the Espionage Act, a precursor to the Patriot Act, which had proscribed any actions that hindered the war effort, including the circulation of seditious materials.
"I think the current action is calculated to cause people to keep their heads down when it comes to producing seditious material as the Chinese public security probably sees it.
But the seditious, satirical spirit is intact.
It's a dishonest and seditious claim".
Baghdad has a large and potentially seditious Shia population.
Far from endorsing such comments, Steinbrenner regards them as seditious.
