treason

IPA: trˈizʌn

Examples of "treason" in Sentences

The magazine was accused of treason.
Electoral fraud is treasonable and criminal.
Both acts are treasonable punishable by death.
Failure to do so was to be treated as treasonable.
It all depends what your definition of "treason" is ...
He was extradited from the UK and imprisoned for treason.
And to call it treason is to rob the word of all meaning.
In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation.
Negative misprision is the concealment of treason or felony.
The offence of treason was created by of the Crimes Act 1958.
It became a maxim that treason was next to sacrilege in gravity.
The Treason Felony Act 1848 prohibits the advocacy of a republic in print.
Firstly I would using say that the term treason is highly inappropiate and irresponsible.
That deserves its own form of recognition in law, and 'treason' is the offense which best captures it.
Technically a country can be treasonous because the primary definition of "treason" is "the betrayal of a trust."
Perry's very loose and dangerous use of the term "treason" is something that brought him criticism from many corners - just not Republican primary voters.
We find by experience, that it punishes them very freely for what it calls treason and rebellion, which, it seems, according to this system, reduces itself to common injustice.