Sentence examples for to sedition from inspiring English sources

Instead, it said talk of sectarian conflict amounted to sedition.

Criticism of the regime was thus tantamount not only to sedition, but also to treason.

"Any critical comment against government policy does not amount to sedition," Soli Sorabjee, a former Attorney General of India, said.

At the time, before Serbia's October Revolution, a small-town bar with an African name was tantamount to sedition.

On the group's Web site, he proposed a law that would make observing Islamic law, which he likened to sedition, a felony punishable by 20 years in prison.

In addition, since feudal armies were made up entirely of officers, as it were, they tended to be ill-organized, ill-disciplined, and prone to sedition.

He has done so on Independence Day, which, since he was born too late to own slaves and in too liberal an age to allow him to outlaw sedition, will forever be his only resemblance to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Jeffrey L. Pasley rightly celebrates the newspaper editor Thomas Greenleaf, a man on "John Adams's enemy list," whose opposition to the Federalists in general and to the Sedition Act in particular helped to establish modern legal definitions of freedom of the press.

The French parliament made it a crime not just to incite sedition but also to justify it.

Riyadh will insist that the Iranian role in Bahrain is subversive with the intent to instigate sedition if not to absorb Bahrain just like Vladimir Putin absorbed the Crimea.

In a country where a court can sentence a woman to be stoned to death, such words amount to outrageous sedition and heresy.