Practitioners within the oil industry tell me they feel it is almost an unspoken act of treason to profess doubts on peak oil.

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As the anti-colonial rebellion took hold in the 1950s, his refusal to join the bien pensant call for independence was considered an act of treason by the French left.

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The two Cubans had committed a potential act of treason: Though promised to faltering Zimbabwe on behalf of the Cuban government, they had left the mission days earlier, escaping to a local's home.

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Subversion of the constitution is an act of high treason, punishable by death.

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The last time a peer lost his title was in 1917 when the Titles Deprivation Act was applied to four people on grounds of treason.

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