Sentence examples for threatening state from inspiring English sources

"Ntaganda's prosecution for threatening state security and 'divisionism' was based solely on his speeches criticizing government policies," the statement said.

Though charged with threatening state security, he has never been tried and has become something of an embarrassment to the authorities.

Last November, after a six-month trial, five Emiratis were sentenced to three-year prison terms for insulting the U.A.E.'s rulers and threatening state security.

In November, Mr. Mansoor and four others were convicted of threatening state security and insulting the Emirates' leaders and sentenced to three years in prison.

In January Nyamwasa was sentenced in absentia by a military court to 24 years' imprisonment on charges of desertion and threatening state security.

Victoire Ingabire, 15 years, convicted of threatening state security "Remanding me in captivity or silencing my voice can only postpone the revolution, it cannot stop the movement".

"The Trump Administration is threatening states' rights, including the rights of one in five Americans who live in a state where marijuana is legal," Wyden said.

But federal prosecutors didn't like this direction and they began threatening states which had spent thousands of staff and advocate hours drafting, debating, and passing access laws.

Ms. Uwimana angered authorities over articles they said threatened state security and denied Rwanda's genocide.

For one, the threatened state might be wrong in its assessment of the threat and launch an unwarranted destructive attack.

Functional agencies operate only within the territories of the states that choose to join them and do not therefore threaten state sovereignty.