Sentence Examples:
They preferred oppression to resistance, persecution and martyrdom to sedition and rebellion.
Any advocacy of significant change in established political practices is regarded as sedition.
We must tolerate sedition, it seems; must we also, in the same interest, encourage disease?
Some persons condemned to die for sedition, were pardoned, and all the exiles were recalled.
For Elizabeth, Mary Stuart embodied sedition, conspiracy, rebellion, battle, murder, and sudden death.
Adams's extreme measures against domestic danger, as embodied in his "alien and sedition laws," were unfortunate.
He would have their crime treated in a short and summary manner, like sedition or rebellion.
Disobedience to legal power is the first step of sedition; and palliative measures effect no cure.
Next, John Freeman, a Socialist, is accused of conspiracy, sedition, and obstruction of the highway.
Where danger tightens the restraints upon popular liberty, the idea of sedition is more narrowly defined.
The government of Louis Philippe resorted to severe repressive measures, and trials for sedition were common.
"I have marked a crop of sedition such as few sovereigns have been called upon to cope with."
The mere dread of revolt, sedition, or external interference makes men, ordinarily calm, almost mad.
Yes, it is rank rebellion, sedition and revolt against slavery, for life and love and freedom!
In vain were the seeds of sedition sown in various parts of the Empire and in neutral countries.
Even now you should be seized: you have uttered treason and sedition, which merit full punishment.
Both Terence and Doreen were painfully aware that the element of sedition was dormant, not conquered.
Edward endeavored to call off the vigor of his subjects from domestic sedition to foreign wars.
In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested, with members of a radical organization, on governmental charges of sedition.
Convictions under the sedition law were few, but there were enough of them to cause great alarm.
Philosophy, more potent than sedition, approached it more and more near, with less respect, less fear.
This was a serious misfortune in a community where the least scarcity produced murmur and sedition.
He represented to the queen the extreme danger the sedition was causing to Paris and to France.
We have shown, as we think, by the fairest argument, that this Society is an organized sedition.
Those injured, the great plantation owners, made no open demonstration, but the seeds of sedition were sown.
It is full of sedition, and therefore tabooed, but dog-eared from being much passed around in secret.
There must be no more holding up of essential parts of guns, no more writing and talking sedition.
Yes, you are a fugitive from the justice which would have punished you as you deserve for sedition.
And thus that sedition, which had been divided into three factions, was now reduced to two.
For a city in sedition cannot be happy, nor can a house in which the masters are quarrelling.
These people talk a good deal of sedition, but have not the pluck to carry out their preaching.
It is also charged against the returned immigrant, that he spreads sedition by bringing home strange religious ideas.
He shared Jeffrey's politics, aided him in defending Radicals charged with sedition, and wrote his biography.
Yet I did feel a certain excitement the first time I witnessed one of these attempts at sedition.
Far from submitting to be prosecuted for sedition, they claimed to prosecute the others for heresy.
Great numbers of them lost their lives under the charge of treason, sedition, or other crimes.
For thirty years there has been no rumor of disturbance or rebellion, nor any sign of sedition.
He had been finally taken prisoner, tried, and convicted of sedition and treason, and sentenced to death.
Whilst on this subject I will declare that I never did consider the sedition law as unconstitutional.
Vested interests proved, however, too powerful, and Ireland stood in her own light by persistent sedition.
Preachers of both religions were forbidden to preach out of doors, or to make use of language tending to sedition.
He charged Crofton with being a declared enemy to the Government and with preaching sedition and insurrection.
The manifesto "calls upon all faithful subjects to eradicate the hideous sedition and to establish faith and morality."
"Now, were I a poet (and I think I am poor enough to be one), I should make a satire upon sedition."
He was found guilty of sedition, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment and a fine of one thousand dollars.
The preachers utter words by way of doctrine for to build up rather than pull down sedition.
Southey calls sedition, and the firm, manly, and independent expression of public opinion, which he calls rebellion.
Every disturbance of the final settlements of 1815, every aspiration for changes or reforms, was condemned as sedition.
These Indians are strangers to sedition, pride, malice, envy, and other passions, which are so fatal to society.
The least noise was regarded as an act of sedition, and was instantly punished by a threatening hiss.
The national representation had only the laws; the club had the people, sedition, and even the army.
Upon the latter's arrival, the major declared that hostages were to be held, as sedition had just broken out.
He was depicted by Botticelli in an attitude of triumph over the triple forces of anarchy, warfare and sedition.
The sedition law, however, did not rest with him for execution, and was applied right and left.
At any rate we have no sedition law now, and freedom of speech against the government passes without comment.
There is an eclipse of the moon, which causes a sedition among his soldiers, who dare to accuse their king.
From thence he went into the land of Gideon where he sought, as in other places, to stir up sedition.
When the witnesses "agreed not together" in the matter of the charge of sedition, this accusation was abandoned.
Their defeats were almost always a signal for sedition and revolt, which the decline of power rendered bold.
Dispatch them quick, but first pluck out their tongues, Lest with their dying breath they sow sedition.
The first palpable infringement of its provisions occurred in the enactment of the alien and sedition laws of 1798.
As a result of this agitation, O'Connell, with several of his followers, was arrested, in October, on charges of sedition.
His administration had been marked by turbulent sedition, but by no other events sufficiently memorable to deserve mention.
Yet calamity often issues from neglected quarters, and sedition springs out of circumstances which have been set aside as trivial.
Wait till I tell you, Mr Armstrong: you know this priest, whom they have let loose to utter more sedition?
We were, in all, fourteen prisoners, accused of sedition, of belonging to secret political societies, and of resisting the police.
At any rate it was not merely on account of their sedition that Luther wished to see the Anabaptists punished.
We have introduced a discontented population from the Islands to spread sedition among the hitherto contented population of the mainland.
He had, as we have shown in the preceding chapter, warned with telling force against riot, tumult, and sedition.
In an outburst of resentment the king called him a trumpet of sedition, and openly wished for his death.
In his eyes the Americans were rebels who must be crushed, and Pitt was but the "trumpet of sedition."
The twenty-five papers which were controlled by the foreigners were the special mark of the alien and sedition laws.
They have absolutely no reference to political questions, nor do they treat of that which could cause disturbance or sedition.
For all which he did not care a pin, but this charge of sedition was more than he could stand.
The day following was lost to sedition, by disputes between the clubs as to the terms of the petition.
The people, a mixture of all nations under the sun, were difficult to rule, and always ready for sedition.
In other words, he was driven from his country for sedition and heresy, when he was seventy-five years old.
For it is not possible in these, when there is sedition in both the parts, that virtue should have a subsistence.
Who in these days would prefer against him the grotesque charge of sedition for what he had done in Brittany?
He had been breeding sedition at the safe distance of a thousand miles, and it was time he was brought to justice.
However, this sedition was so far from ceasing upon this destruction, that it grew much stronger, and became more intolerable.
Flower was apprehended, tried, and burned for heresy and sedition, on the spot now called the Broad Sanctuary.
This man was one of the rebels of 1837 who fled to the United States when his sedition was discovered.
Treason in this case, however, meant not sedition or rebellion, but anarchy, i.e. attempts at the destruction of the state.
To excite the suspicion of the Roman authorities, the charges now made were those of sedition and treason against the government.
A number of the leaders were tried for sedition, and the courts became the objects of abuse as they are to-day.
I did all I could to stop it; my mission is not to stir up sedition, sir, but to preach peace.
I know how you hide in areas, how you talk sedition in private, how you have made money out of other men's misery.
It was necessary to emphasize the fact that there had been an outrageous sedition on the part of the lower classes.
Our soil was chosen as a garden of domestic sedition, and of foreign conspiracy against powers with which we were at peace.
The fate of the pigeons awaits all who would violate our shores, or light up the flame of sedition in the land.
Then Patterson sent a letter to President Dickinson, accusing the farmers of sedition, and hinting that extreme measures were necessary.
Not that by our teaching or life we should be guilty of sedition against others; rather, we should be quiet and obedient.
James could no longer tolerate their meetings, if once he began to look upon them as the nursery of discontent and sedition.
Such persons as did take these liberties ... ought to suffer for stirring up sedition and discontent among the people.
On the following day, whilst the governor was preparing for his departure, a fresh sedition broke out in the city.
It was rare to find the "sedition" for which some of them were punished, perhaps over-promptly, translated from words to actions.
Every sentiment of 'justice' was outraged when wicked sedition thus without cause reared its head against the covenant of the nation.
The alien and sedition laws assume the exercise by the federal government of powers not granted to it by the Constitution.
Doubtless, also, phrases had been used in the Advocate which, isolated from the context, might have been tortured into something like sedition.