In a society where it's a hanging offense merely to think of the king's death, this is seditious stuff.
In other words, women's hair is itself seen as seditious and counterrevolutionary.
I accept my responsibility for offending seditious thugs, liars and tyrants.
We still have free speech and unless the video is seditious, people can post it.
But when journalists fan the flames with inaccurate, seditious and inflammatory coverage of religious matters, in the name of freedom of expression, it may have lethal consequences.
Police infiltrated the adult education classes to pick up information about seditious activities, and press began hanging around the school, bothering students for leads on further radical outrages.
And that they call seditious.
With drinking being portrayed in music and film as cool and seditious is what could lead teens into breaking the social structure, resulting in becoming a subversive teen.
In its underlying logic, nearly every popular protest was simultaneously respectful and hostile, submissive and defiant, obedient and seditious.
His personality makes it inevitable that disloyal and seditious acts will take place.
Toward the end of the century many of them were broken up by state prosecutions, on suspicion that their purposes were seditious.
The charge against one of the prisoners was, that he had sold and circulated seditious publications.
One principle was seditious, and when consummated must end in the man of sin.
And now the seditious were contented with the victory they had gotten, and the buildings they had burnt down, and proceeded no further.
During recent years quite a number of such church heads have been prosecuted in the courts for their seditious utterances and activities.
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