Sentence examples for were tried for from inspiring English sources

Twenty people were tried for his murder.

The reformist leaders were tried for sedition.

Shade and Milligan were tried for boxing and sparring.

Next stop: U.S. District Court, where, in 1990, Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi were tried for racketeering.

In 1550 Bartolomeo and Lucrezia and were tried for heresy by the Inquisition.

The other two, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, were tried for espionage and sentenced to eight years.

One example was the prosecution of two Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers who were tried for fraud in 2009.

In 1603, two women of his household were tried for sorcery by local authorities, and, under torture, confessed.

General Galtieri and other junta leaders were tried for human rights crimes shortly after democracy was restored in 1983.

When that would not stick because Andrews' appointment was of questionable legality, they were tried for assaulting a black officer.

Shockley, Thompson, and Carnes were tried for the killing of the guards.