Sentence examples for seditious speech from inspiring English sources

Writers found themselves subject to arrest and trial for "seditious" speech.

"Where shrill speech ends and seditious speech begins is being worked out in practice — and in very harsh practice".

On the face of it, it seems odd that a remnant of 18th-century restrictions on seditious speech should excite anyone beyond a self-serving clique of journalists.

"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.

"Additionally, many minutes were provided for [Republican presidential candidate] Ben Carson to promote his seditious speech against the government.

He was also imprisoned (1881 82 and 1883) for seditious speeches.

He was jailed twice for insulting the new colonial leaders, including Governor Lionel Copley, who accused Carroll of, "uttering several mutinous and seditious speeches".

The team of defence barristers included Chartist leader Ernest Jones, who had spent two years in prison for making seditious speeches, and W. P. Roberts, whose fee was paid by subscribers to a defence fund to represent nine of the men.

He was also fined the huge sum of £5,000 for uttering "seditious" words.

The sovereign retains full discretion to determine which actions are acceptable and what forms of speech are seditious.

After all, who is to decide what kind of speech counts as seditious?