Word: treasonable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other retail stores, underscoring reports that around 180 union officials remained in detention, along with perhaps 1,600 other blacks. Out of an estimated 3,000 arrested since the emergency was declared on June 12, about 1,200 were thought to have been released. In a separate development, treason charges against four black trade unionists were dropped after the judge ruled that taped evidence appeared to have been tampered with...
...made it clear that he wants to remake the federal judiciary in his own conservative image, not just on the high court but in the lower federal courts as well. Judicial appointments can be a President's most enduring legacy. Federal judges, appointed for life and removable only for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," often serve long after a President's term expires. Future vacancies on the high court may offer Reagan a back-door means of achieving the New Right social agenda-- including permitting prayer in schools and banning abortion--that elected politicians in Congress have...
...customary in a Le Carre novel, the odor of moral fatigue and middle-age burnout cling to every page. But Magnus' betrayals also smell of the cradle and the grave. His acts of treason are not rooted in greed or politics. They are delayed rebellions not only against a criminal father but against a system that appears only slightly better. "You have a lawyer's training, you have Czech language and Czech expertise," a personnel bureaucrat tells a reassigned spy. "More appropriately you have a thoroughly sleazy mind. Apply it . . . We expect terrible things of you." This sort of thing...
...peace activist is a right," he insists. Refuseniks, by applying to leave have already crossed into a realm of dissent which sets them apart from ordinary Soviet citizens. While simply wanting to leave is not usually considered dissent in Western countries, a desire to leave is considered tantamount to treason in the Soviet Union. As a result refuseniks are in a difficult position. They are not usually dissent activists, yet they no longer keep up an appearance of complacency with the system...
...make sure every citizen is armed, with reason and beauty. We will hang traitors and hang people who are responsible for feeding our children drugs . . ." There was more: "He (LaRouche) will put the fear of God in people like Henry Kissinger and the State Department, the biggest hotbed of treason in this nation since Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton...