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high treason
1. Even if she meant her scheme to save the emperor, counterfeiting was high treason—punishable by death—whether she intended to circulate the bills or not
2. I wish I could have told them to scatter, to go home, to forget all about those tanks out there, but that would have been high treason, and we, and any kid who followed our suggestion, would have been shot or hanged - children with bright smiles and radiant eyes
3. I have a warrant for the arrest of Major Emerson Winthrop III on the charge of high treason against the Swordsman Church
4. Two days later, Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, accused of high treason, was condemned to death
5. Effectively, it took only three hours before Grand Administrator Li appeared on system-wide news to declare the referendum results null and void and to call the referendum itself an act of sedition, promising to have the leaders of the new Spacers League arrested and judged for high treason
6. Three hours ago, those traitors paid the price for their acts, after having been judged and found guilty of high treason
7. Within three days the Court came back with a guilty verdict of high treason
8. As expected, Francis shot at her, but he was seized by plain clothes policemen, and convicted of high treason
9. Only a few days later, that same false witness, the adjutant, was arrested in the very act of committing high treason against his commanders, and since he had been unfaithful to his Provider and his own conscience previously, it should have come as no surprise that he might also betray those who had rewarded him
10. The intent was to implicate Eleanor in high treason
11. “The Ashuras? Why that is high treason indeed
12. and another 155 leaders were charged with high treason
13. tiny Israel, William was arrested for high treason and jailed out of reach of his family or lawyer
14. Which son will my brother believe? As for the matter of these puppeteers, by the time Aerion is done twisting the tale it will be high treason
15. The former occupant of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting his trial on a charge of High Treason against her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, etc
16. Where is there in her history an example of her punishing as a traitor, a Briton naturalized by a foreign Government, although found in arms against her? If a subject could not divest himself of his natural allegiance; if once a subject always a subject, were true, how is it that Napper Tandy was suffered to escape punishment? Why was he not hanged as a traitor? He was born in Ireland, became a French citizen, served in war against his native country, was taken, tried, and found guilty of high treason; but when a terrible retaliation was threatened by France, in the event of his execution, that nation, which never yields to threats, restored him to his then adopted country
