Sentence examples for seditious in from inspiring English sources

None of these statements is seditious, in the usual sense, in that none of them advocated the government's overthrow.Yet Malaysia's sedition law is almost comically broad.

Its owners were "found guilty of harbouring an itinerant printing press".Kyle Durrie aims to follow in these wheel ruts, seditious in her own way, providing hands-on experience in the disintermediation of letterpress printing.

After the wedding, she found herself at the receiving end of good ol' southern disapproval when she decided to keep her maiden name – an act that was seen as virtually seditious in unreconstructed 1970s Arkansas.

In December 1792, Paine's Rights of Man, part II was declared seditious in Britain and he was forced to flee to France in order to avoid arrest.

Erskine's reply opened with a defence of the freedom of lawyers to represent whichever clients came to them, and followed with an exposition of his views on the nature of the freedom of the press arguing that the publication of radical tracts served only to improve the government by highlighting its weaknesses, and could not be seditious if published in good faith.

(Not for nothing does Lyra, the contrarian heroine of Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, begin her own seditious adventures in a wardrobe in Oxford).

Throughout this period, but particularly in the middle of the 18th century, the Bastille was used by the police to suppress the trade in illegal and seditious books in France.

López Rivera, 70, was charged with "seditious conspiracy" in 1981 and sentenced to 55 years in jail.

His opinions having become both suspect and irrelevant in Philadelphia, Paine sailed in 1787 for Europe, where he was soon charged with seditious treason in Britain (for publishing part two of The Rights of Man), imprisoned and sentenced to death in France (for his opposition to the execution of Louis XVI on the ground that it was an unprincipled act of murder).

His only crimes were for conspiracy -- 55 years for seditious conspiracy in 1981, and an additional 15 years for conspiracy to escape in 1987.

Anwar, too, is under further investigation, accused of making seditious comments in a political speech.