Trumped-up Sentence Examples

Middleton coveted the estates of the earl of Argyll, son of the late marquis, and on a trumped-up charge of " leasing making " (he had spoken in a private letter of " the tricks of parliament ") had him condemned to death.

Meanwhile, Max is thrown into prison on trumped up charges.

The Magyar nobles were now systematically spoliated on trumped-up charges of treason; 1 In contradistinction to Turkish Hungary and Transylvanian Hungary.

He fell under the ban of Nero owing to his ethical teachings, and was exiled to the island of Gyarus on a trumped-up charge of participation in Piso's conspiracy.

In 1969 they were exchanged with British spy Gerald Brooke (some said convicted in Russia on trumped up charges ).

She rejected with resolute dignity the intercession of French envoys for the life of the queen-dowager of France; she allowed the sentence of death to be proclaimed and welcomed with bonfires and bellringing throughout the length of England; she yielded a respite of twelve days to the pleading of the French ambassador, and had a charge trumped up against him of participation in a conspiracy against her life; at length, on the 1st of February 1587, she signed the death-warrant, and then made her secretaries write word to Paulet of her displeasure that in all this time he should not of himself have found out some way to shorten the life of his prisoner, as in duty bound by his oath, and thus relieve her singularly tender conscience from the guilt of bloodshed.

In 1969 they were exchanged with British spy Gerald Brooke (some said convicted in Russia on trumped up charges).

The false charges trumped up out of Ali Campbell 's backside?

Yet to all of the trumped-up charges, to all of this pseudo evidence, our Lord made no reply.

Many miners were sacked after they were convicted on trumped-up police evidence.

Given all of the accounts in and around the loch, is the creature real or just a clever story trumped up by the locals to increase tourism to a remote and beautiful location?

I thought the story about his job at the poultry farm was only a cover - some trumped up story to establish credence.

Another of her sons, Valerio, born in 1 453, still lived, but he was openly put to death by Roberto on a trumped-up charge of treason.