Government was not to serve the interest of any one group to the prejudice or neglect of the rest, for then discord and sedition would occur.
I dealt in like manner with Clitus, a young man of Tiberias, who was the author of a fresh sedition in that city.
Pitt had not only to cope with enemies without, but with sedition within.
I testify that this man has incited to sedition by denouncing the members of this reverend council as hypocrites, wolves in sheep's clothing, blind leaders of the blind; and I further testify that he has declared no one should follow them.
Antipas knew the dictum well; and with an uprising in the yonderland, and a sedition under his feet, what more could he do than quell the first with his mercenaries, and disarm the second with his games?
Sedition however infected the soldiers, who, instead of their usual military services, were rioting in idleness.
People sometimes forget that Burr was as willing to try seditionin the East as in the West.
The Federal strength was further weakened by the imprisonment, under the sedition law, of Matthew Lyon, one of the Vermont members of Congress.
But two or three days after this fine sermon of his, the seditionwas more violent than ever.
He was one of the men prosecuted under the Alien and Sedition laws of 1798.
The schoolmaster who attempted it would soon find himself penniless in the streets without pupils, if not in the dock pleading to a pompously worded indictment for sedition against the exploiters.
In regard to the domestic matters which marked his administration the most important was the enactment of the alien and sedition laws, now generally regarded as Federal blunders.
The Sedition Laws were even more offensive, since under them citizens could be fined and imprisoned if they wrote what were called "libels" on men in power; and violent language against men in power was deemed a libel.
It is easy now to see that the Alien and Sedition Laws must have been exceedingly unpopular; but the government was not then wise enough to see the logical issue.
Among the various causes of sedition or mischief in the Grecian communities, we hear little of the pressure of private debt.
Among the various laws of Solon, there are few which have attracted more notice than that which pronounces the man who in a sedition stood aloof, and took part with neither side, to be dishonored and disfranchised.
He succeeded in demolishing a number of fortified cities which had formed the hotbeds of sedition and tumult; and thus added greatly to the power of the reigning duke.
A seeming tranquillity was soon established, and the noise of enthusiasm and sedition was followed in all Germany by a silence inspired by terror.
Who now an envious festival installs, And to survey their strength the faction calls, Which fraud, religious worship too, must gild; But oh how weakly doessedition build!
Sedition has not wholly seized on thee, Thy nobler parts are from infection free.
On the way to the garrison he informed Charles and Henry that the war was nearly at an end, but there was a great deal of disturbance and sedition in the city of Naples, and that the garrison there had to be doubled.
Pitt, addressing the Speaker, said: "Sir, I have been charged with giving birth to sedition in America.
The alien and sedition laws furnished the particular occasion.
You seem to think it devolved on the judges to decide on the validity of the sedition law.
In the cases of Callender and others, the judges determined the sedition act was valid under the constitution, and exercised their regular powers of sentencing them to fine and imprisonment.
It was accordingly done in every instance, without asking what the offenders had done, or against whom they had offended, but whether the pains they were suffering were inflicted under the pretended sedition law.
From him we learn that a witness summoned to assist the crown in the prosecution of sedition is placed in an "odious position.
A copy of that conviction is handed in here as evidence to convict me of sedition for charging as I do that that was a wrong verdict, a bad verdict, a rotten and a false verdict.
When millions of the Queen's subjects think that such wrong has been done, is it sedition for them to say so peaceably and publicly?
It has this week been decreed sedition to picture Ireland thus.
Emulation's sent Dathan and Abiram quick into the grave because they raised up a sedition against Moses the servant of God.
And not to harden his heart, as the hearts of those were hardened, who raised up sedition against Moses the servant of God whose punishment was manifest unto all men, for they went down alive into the grave; death swallowed them up.
Ye were sincere, and without offence towards each other; not mindful of injuries; all sedition and schism was an abomination unto you.
And as for those who have been the heads of the sedition and faction among you, let them look to the common end of our hope.
This act had a most dreadful effect upon the Quakers, though it was well known and notorious that these conscientious persons were far from sedition or disaffection to the government.
This Dinwiddie thought tended to "sowing sedition and rebellion among the people.
As to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, so it is sedition in subjects to dispute what a King may do," he said.
Appalling distress prevailed, and Chartism and other more dangerous forms of sedition were rife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sedition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: collaboration; conspiracy; extremism; faction; fraternization; sedition; treason
