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treasonable
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Amid this crackdown, army chief Christopher Musa warned that it is a "treasonable offence" to fly the flags of foreign countries.
Afterwards, army chief Christopher Musa said: "We are warning in clear terms that we will not accept anybody, any individual flying any foreign flag in Nigeria. That is a treasonable offence, and it will be viewed and treated as such."
In Ex parte Bollman, Marshall asserted: “If a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose”—which, as Marshall understood it, included insurrection— “all of those who perform any part, however minute or remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.”
Abstract discussion not aimed at instigating action did not provide grounds for prosecution, but words intended to inspire forcible resistance to law were treasonable.
“To me, those acts are treasonable,” Solensten said of the Bidens.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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