Sentence examples for treasonable from inspiring English sources

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treasonable

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Involving or constituting treason

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For his part in instigating this violence, Gordon was arrested on a charge of high treason but was acquitted on the ground that he had no treasonable intentions.

To Dr Verwoerd this is treasonable; to English-speaking South Africans it seems a sensible way preventing them from giving their support to the Africans.

The promise of gleaming new EU-financed motorways and fine civic buildings has been among the biggest inducements dangled before the ten countries due to join the club next year.So virtuous is regional aid generally considered that it is regarded as almost treasonable in the main recipient countries to question it.

He would order the publication of unfavourable articles, just as he once forbade his television stations to broadcast a documentary on Nixon, because it included an interview with Alger Hiss, a "treasonable spy".

Brazilians, he suggests, are specialists in such belly contractions.Questioning America's long-held AAA rating is not as treasonable now as it once seemed.

IN 1695, the year a speaker of the House of Commons was last ejected from the gilded post, Parliament voted not to renew the Licensing of the Press Act, which had censored "seditious, treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets".

He even called for a jihad, a holy war an action so reckless in a country with Indonesia's propensity for mayhem as to verge on the treasonable.

This, says Mr Sarraj, sees any form of criticism as treasonable.

Its trading significance had dwindled, its celebrated Roman baths were crumbling and, most awkward of all, a whiff of the unfashionable and treasonable Jacobite cause still hung over it.

A new law makes it treasonable to provide consultancy or "other assistance" to a foreign state directed against Russia's national security.

Such flirtations with the occupying forces amount to treasonable offences in the skewed, bloodthirsty opinion of many of those who dictate what is truth and falsehood in the new Ireland of the 1920s and onwards.

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