Sentence examples for treasonous act from inspiring English sources

What I did was a treasonous act".

One reader charged me with a "virtually treasonous act".

Sent to France to arrange a marriage of Henry's sister Mary with Francis I of France, Suffolk married her himself, a treasonous act.

You left an entire nation behind in the Rose Garden while celebrating a military deserter whose treasonous act you smiled at for all the world to see".

Everyone who happens to threaten or is perceived to be threatening his position is accused of committing a treasonous act, even if he doesn't prove it.

"Why would you try to promote a treasonous act unless you still stick to the ideals of promoting slavery?" he said.

The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1864-1866 recommended that there be no change to treason law, quoting the "more merciful" Treason Felony Act 1848, which limited the punishment for most treasonous acts to penal servitude.

Otherwise, they say, the trio must be put on trial with their least punishment being execution for committing treason, trying to stage a coup, starting a "colored revolution," and other "treasonous" acts.

But Georgetowners didn't limit themselves to overt, treasonous acts like joining the Confederate Army.

Our security forces have routinely investigated and arrested people suspected of spying and other treasonous acts.

Some unquestionably were, and busted conspiracies and postwar admissions support the notion that some Copperheads committed treasonous acts.