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    treason


    1. "We are here to try them for treason


    2. “To pretend to please everyone is mad, but to pretend to please everyone in a time of revolution is treason


    3. The charges against him are many, treason, murder, torture, etc… Proof of his crimes will be entered into the records


    4. Any failure to follow your specific orders could be considered treason, do you understand that?”


    5. “Do you understand that treason is a capital offense?”


    6. still accusations of heresy and treason throughout the


    7. Stenarch proposed a charge of treason against me


    8. The treason charges failed


    9. But she had been a prisoner summarily condemned for treason


    10. That’s treason in my way of thinking

    11. Had we been at war at the time he released those documents, his action could well have been considered treason


    12. Couldn’t you be tried by the women’s movement for treason?”


    13. "You will hang for treason as well


    14. They simply said they give us ten years before we fell to black majority rule which in those days came close to treason


    15. I read in the newspapers that during the recent far right treason trial the authorities apparently breached lawyers' confidentiality by bugging interview rooms


    16. Buchanan was an utter incompetent whose inaction and borderline treason made the Civil War almost inevitable


    17. His successor John Tyler not only expanded slavery, he committed treason


    18. But because of Buchanan's weakness, and in the eyes of some, near treason, over half a million Americans died needlessly


    19. I am certain that the good sisters of Saint Cecilia‘s properly explained to young Ian that Pilate was never convinced, ―I find no guilt in him‖, of Christ‘s guilt and that the trumped-up charges of Treason and Sedition leveled against Him by the High Priests were unfounded and unsupported by so-called ―witnesses‖ brought to bear testimony against Him; but manufactured, however, by religious leaders who considered Him (Christ) a threat to their ecclesiastical authority


    20. There is no longer any doubt in my mind that treason, as it was once (properly) understood, is on the verge of extinction; elasticized out of the American Constitution by the penumbral dynamics governing free speech in whatever form that may otherwise antagonize the well-bred standards of decency and good taste; depending, of course, on the topic and the person doing the talking!

    21. Essentially Johnson threw away most of what Unionist fought the Civil War for, ending slavery and punishing treason


    22. Southern Unionists who stayed loyal to the United States and did not commit treason as Confederates did


    23. He was far too lenient and granted many of them amnesty for their treason during the Civil War, pardoning all but a few hundred


    24. Instead the US sees the surreal situation of millions of Americans wearing a symbol of treason and being taught to admire traitors who tried to destroy the US because of their own fanatic belief in white supremacy


    25. Anyhow, unprecedented powers had been granted to these groups: they were no longer burdened by the necessity of observing the civil rights of citizens suspected of treason


    26. He would continue the war, but remain very handicapped by divisions in Congress and public perception that he would give in to the treason of the Confederacy


    27. But Roosevelt feared the arrest of famous figures such as a Du Pont on treason charges would crash the Stock Market again


    28. But the committee issued no indictments for treason as they deserved


    29. Again, trials and convictions of elites for treason would trigger economic panic


    30. John Tyler holds the dubious distinction of being the only former president to ever outright commit treason

    31. That does not mean treason the way some conspiracy minded types use the word to mean “things I disagree with


    32. Gordon had fought diligently in the halls of government to win Manuel a bronze plaque, awarded by a grateful nation for heading an investigation that unseated a political rival of Gordon on charges of treason


    33. That last temptation was the easy way out, the bloodless shadow of a victory, a postponed defeat and utterly, nothing else than treason


    34. Now he understands that by not using his powers for the good of mankind, he is guilty of treason, of double-crossing the Universe


    35. 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he brought, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of


    36. the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets, and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason


    37. Surely, by signing the Declaration of Independence, they were signing their own death warrants for treason should they fail—a far cry from the activities of the power-crazed Lenin


    38. taught to sing praise; Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason


    39. Complicating matters, the Mexican government had passed a law making it treason to negotiate with the United States


    40. I was going to have you executed for treason once the revolt was launched, but there have been some complications

    41. church, after all, she forgave her husband for treason that he had,


    42. You see, back then, to have a child with a human was considered treason


    43. “She will be charged with treason and executed


    44. of his treason, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites


    45. “the most blatantly unprincipled war opposition short of treason in living memory


    46. “This is treason and blasphemy!” Resp the messenger


    47. for this damnable treason and sacrilege, the wizard caused


    48. Was it ever less than a treason


    49. judge, and then has the audacity to interpret it in any fashion that they wish, is committing treason


    50. bribery, the shady deals, the high crimes and treason













































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    Synonyms for "treason"

    betrayal perfidy treachery treason high treason lese majesty subversiveness traitorousness disloyalty dishonesty sedition disaffection

    "treason" definitions

    a crime that undermines the offender's government


    disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior


    an act of deliberate betrayal