Sentence examples for tried for sedition from inspiring English sources

And then he was tried for sedition".

The reformist leaders were tried for sedition.

Imprisoned in the Tower of London and tried for sedition, the bishops were subsequently acquitted.

Nor the last?Four leading Cuban dissidents were tried for sedition.

Godolphin had Sacheverell tried for sedition by the House of Lords, but Londoners rioted in sympathy with the defendant.

Gandhi himself was arrested on March 10 , 1922 tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment.

Wheelwright was tried for contempt and sedition that month for his fast-day sermon, and in a close vote he was convicted, but not yet sentenced.

He subsequently was indicted and tried for corruption as well as for mutiny and sedition for his involvement in the 1979 coup (charges that had been leveled in 1994 but not pursued at that time).

In 1764 he was expelled from the Commons and tried in absentia for sedition, libel, and obscenity.

Of all the people tried in this country for sedition, he undoubtedly got the warmest obituary in the Herald Tribune.

In 1910 Aurobindo withdrew himself from all political activities and went into hiding at Chandannagar while the British were trying to prosecute him for sedition on the basis of a signed article titled 'To My Countrymen', published in Karmayogin.