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• Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable. The Worldly Philosophers
• Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
• But to come back to Tacitus for a second - he shows the other side, the treasonable side of the clerks of the Roman Empire.
• The 1614 Synod was significant for another reason in that it upheld the view by then traditional in Catholic theology, that treasonable activity against the state was inadmissible for Catholics.
• They were brought to trial for treasonable conspiracy.
• The 1807 trial, presided over by Chief Justice John Marshall in the U.S. Circuit Court in Richmond, Virginia, ended with Burr's acquittal on the grounds that he had not committed overt treasonable acts.
• All those who were in any manner connected with the contemplated expedition disclaimed the idea of treasonable designs, averring that, if such were the views of Colonel Burr, they had been deceived. Memoirs of Aaron Burr
• He had access to top-secret Allied intelligence intercepts of German radio traffic which - in a treasonable breach of security - he passed direct to the Soviet High Command.
• With Maguire the treasonable act of rebellion itself was less in dispute than the questions how, where and before whom it could be tried.
• The church was further bolstered in 1563 when another Act of Uniformity made refusal to take the oath, or the defence of papal authority, a treasonable offence.