What's the difference between abettor and treason?

Abettor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A crime could be committed even if the abettor did not take any tangible action, provided the actions "directly and substantially" assisted and where there was "knowledge ... that torture is being practised".
  • (2) "All co-conspirators and abettors must be held accountable."
  • (3) Rodchenkov was specifically identified in the report as an “aider and abettor” of the doping activities and it was recommended he should be “permanently removed from his position”.
  • (4) Lord Brown said what is needed is "a custom-built policy statement indicating the various factors for and against prosecution, factors designed to distinguish between those situations in which, however tempted to assist, the prospective aider and abettor should refrain from doing so, and those situations in which he or she may fairly hope to be, if not commended, at the very least forgiven, rather than condemned, for giving assistance".

Treason


Definition:

  • (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
  • (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
  • (2) It will be payback time, after Mutharika and five other ministers were arrested and charged with treason for trying to block her ascent.
  • (3) Instead of dealing with a political problem, China has sought confrontation and control – threatening new national security laws that outlaw treason .
  • (4) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
  • (5) December 5, 2013 10.21pm GMT Mandela was arrested in 1956 for "high treason" against the state, in a case that concluded without conviction.
  • (6) Arrested last year on suspicion of spying for arch-enemy Armenia, the couple also face treason charges in a separate case.
  • (7) But a Conservative MP who recently wrote to the Metropolitan police to call for a criminal investigation into the Guardian, accused the newspaper of potential treason.
  • (8) In addition to tax evasion and illegal business activities, she has also been charged with treason, for allegedly spying for Armenia.
  • (9) In a statement to a Senate judiciary committee he accused the British actor of coming “perilously near to treason” against the United States.
  • (10) On Monday the Sunni Ittehad Council, an umbrella group representing followers of the moderate Barelvi school of Islam , demanded Hassan be tried for treason.
  • (11) Pakistan's official commission investigating Bin Laden's presence in the country last year recommended that Afridi be tried for treason.
  • (12) Musharraf was dramatically diverted to a military hospital on 2 January after feeling a "heaviness" in his chest while he was driving to his treason trial.
  • (13) Everyone who happens to threaten or is perceived to be threatening his position is accused of committing a treasonous act, even if he doesn’t prove it.
  • (14) But pro-European presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, known as the "chocolate king," who currently leads in the polls, said on Thursday that any delay of the elections would be "treason" and would not happen no matter the circumstances.
  • (15) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
  • (16) Most were men and most had been convicted of murder, although Thomas and Albert also executed some prisoners who had been convicted of treason.
  • (17) But if that has turned not out to be true – if it is less and less accepted in rightward-drifting Israeli society that there can be such a thing as non-political information, and B’Tselem’s traditional activities are dismissed as treason – what point is there in trying any more?
  • (18) It is believed that Dokuchayev and Mikhailov face treason charges, which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
  • (19) Whenever we had a special campaign or an important political case - for example, the treason trial - we received financial assistance from sympathetic individuals and organisations in the western countries.
  • (20) "Generals like those in charge of Ilovaysk should be imprisoned for treason," said Skillt.