6 sentences with 'treason'
Example sentences and phrases with the word treason and other words derived from it.
• « He was willing to commit treason, but not because he was disgusted with his own society, but because of the disgust he felt toward his country's chief ally. »
• « Caligula used treason trials to enrich himself after squandering the treasury on public buildings and games. »
• « To enforce its will and ensure 'security', the Committee of Public Safety instituted what later became known as 'The Terror', as those suspected of treason were arrested, interrogated and confronted with the possibility of imprisonment or execution. »
• « The Dreyfus affair, in which a French Jewish army officer was falsely accused of treason, became a kind of prediction of civil war thanks to the enormous amount of press on both sides of the scandal. »
• « The National Convention, which had been in session in Santa Fe shortly before, and to which several provinces had sent deputies, declared Dorrego's execution a "crime of high treason against the State" and appointed Estanislao López head of the military forces that were to confront the Unitarian revolution. »
• « The lieutenant colonel in charge of the prison informed us that 15 prisoners were serving sentences there for treason, for having attempted to escape from the country, although not a single one of them was in the cells that day. »