Following his refusal to fight against the return of the monarchy ( or to take up arms for any reason ), his sentence was doubled.

* 1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.

Following the IWC's 1991 refusal to accept its Scientific Committee's recommendation to allow sustainable commercial whaling, Iceland left the IWC in 1992.

* July 13 – Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Oliver Cromwell, English army leader John Lambert is ordered to resign his commissions.

" Following Zorin's refusal to answer the abrupt question, Stevenson retorted, " I am prepared to wait for my answer until Hell freezes over.

Following the dissolution of the CAF and the refusal of the British government to grant independence to Southern Rhodesia without more progress towards multiracial democracy, the predominantly white electorate of Southern Rhodesia backed a Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965.

Following Japan's refusal to withdraw from China ( with the exclusion of Manchukuo ) and Indochina, United States, Great Britain and Netherlands imposed, on July 22, 1941, an embargo on gasoline while shipments of scrap metal, steel and other materials had virtually ceased.

Following the refusal of their affiliation, the CPGB encouraged its members to join the Labour Party individually and to seek Labour Party endorsement or help for any candidatures.

Following the formal refusal of Emperor Karl I to exercise highest state authority ( it was not an abdication: " Ich verzichte auf jeden Anteil an den Staatsgeschäften.

Following the Taliban's repeated refusal to expel bin Laden and his group and end its support for international terrorism, the United States and its partners launched an invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.

Following Abbé Pierre's death in January 2007, Italian magistrate Carlo Mastelloni declared to the Corriere della Sera that during the abduction of Aldo Moro Abbé Pierre had gone to the Christian Democrats ' headquarters on piazza del Gesù ( Jesus Place ) in Rome in an attempt to speak with its secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, in favor of a " hard line " of refusal of negotiations along with the BR.

Following Howard's refusal to offer such an assurance, in September 1985 Peacock sought to replace him with John Moore as Deputy Leader.

Following his refusal to pay, Mayor Torrefranca of Sagbayan, Bohol has survived two assassination attempts since 1998.

Following the UK government's refusal to grant BEA permission to order an all-American fleet of Boeing 727-200s and 737-200s, the Board of Trade ( BOT ) directed the airline to buy comparable British aircraft instead.

Following the refusal of a witness to produce documents or to testify, the Committee is entitled to report a resolution of contempt to its parent chamber.

Following two further petitions for liquidation brought by Thwaites Brewery and ING Lease UK and their refusal of an offer of 25p in the pound, on 14 May 2009 Darwen Football Club was wound up in the High Court.

Following Hasson's refusal, Yaeli sneaks into Jinji's jeep and finds herself in the Sinai base.

Following their legal victories, and facing continuing refusal by the government to make antiretrovirals available, TAC began a campaign for universal access to AIDS treatment through the public health system.

Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, senior British figures criticized the refusal of the US Government to heed British advice regarding post-war plans for Iraq, specifically the Coalition Provisional Authority's de-Ba ' athification policy and the critical importance of preventing the power vacuum in which the insurgency subsequently developed.

Following the NSW Ombudsman's challenge against the government for its repeated refusal to provide him with all relevant files, it was subsequently found that there had been no evidence of corruption to support the dismissal, and that " the elected councillors were denied natural justice and were both unfairly and unlawfully dismissed ".

Following the failed ALA attack on the Haganah base at Mishmar Ha ' amek, and the Haganah's refusal of an offer of a truce, Haganah and Palmach troops counter attacked.

Following the refusal of the Dutch government to return, the Netherlands was controlled by a German civilian governor — unlike France and Denmark, which had their own governments, or Belgium, which was placed under German military control.

Following his refusal to return to the Soviet Union when " invited " in 1969 the KGB made efforts to discredit Orlov.

Following his army's refusal to continue marching east at the Hyphasis River in 325 BC, Alexander the Great crossed the area after sailing south to the coast of the Indian Ocean on his way back to Babylon.

Following the assassination in Parliament of Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan and six other officials, on 27 October 1999, a period of political instability ensued during which an opposition headed by elements of the former Armenian National Movement government attempted unsuccessfully to force Kocharyan to resign.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Following the efforts of some figures of the National awakening of Bulgaria ( the most notable among them being Neofit Rilski and Ivan Bogorov ), there had been many attempts to codify a standard Bulgarian language ; however, there was much argument surrounding the choice of norms.

Following success as the successor to the Whig party, the party's share of the popular vote plummeted after the First World War as it lost votes to the new Labour party and fractured into groups such as the National and Coalition Liberals.

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

Following the 1899 season, the National League disbanded four teams, including the Cleveland franchise.

Following his enforced resignation, Madero and his Vice-President José María Pino Suárez were kept under guard in the National Palace.

Following the Indian Removal Act, in 1832 the Creek National Council signed the Treaty of Cusseta, ceding their remaining lands east of the Mississippi to the U. S., and accepting relocation to the Indian Territory.

Following the agreement a new African party, the Kenya African National Union ( KANU ), with the slogan " Uhuru ," or " Freedom ," was formed under the leadership of Kikuyu leader James S. Gichuru and labor leader Tom Mboya.

Following in the steps of the Soviet Union, Zambia instituted a program of national development, under the direction of the National Commission for Development Planning, which instituted a " Transitional Development Plan " and the " First National Development Plan ".

Following a series of screenings which he and the National Film Theatre programmer Karel Reisz organized for the venue of independently-produced short films by himself and others, he developed a philosophy of cinema which found expression in what became known, by the late-1950s, as the Free Cinema movement.

Following the success of the National Lampoon – backed Animal House, Mad lent its name in 1980 to a similarly risque comedy film, Up the Academy.

Following the 1987 season, Smith was awarded the largest contract in the National League at $ 2, 340, 000.

Following Yasser Arafat's commitment to " submit to the Palestinian National Council for formal approval " the changes to the Charter confirming that " those articles of the Palestinian Covenant which deny Israel's right to exist, and the provisions of the Covenant which are inconsistent with the commitments of this letter are now inoperative and no longer valid " in the September 9, 1993 letters of mutual recognition, the PNC met in Gaza and voted on 24 April 1996.

Following the Super League war of the 1990s Crowe made an attempt to use his Hollywood connections to convince Ted Turner, rival of Super League's Rupert Murdoch, to save the Rabbitohs before they were forced from the National Rugby League competition for two years.

Following the season, he returned to Puerto Rico along with Orlando Cepeda, a native of Ponce who had just led the National League in home runs and RBIs, thus inadvertently collaborating with first-time batting champion Clemente to give their mutual homeland a collective National League triple crown.

Following the assassination of his mother in 1984 after Operation Blue Star, the Indian National Congress party leaders nominated him to be Prime Minister.

Following his younger brother's death in 1980, Gandhi was pressured by Indian National Congress party politicians and his mother to enter politics.

Following the LTTE's defeat, the Tamil National Alliance, the largest political party in Sri Lanka, dropped its demand for a separate state in favour of a federal solution.

Following several years of work, Louis Essen from the National Physical Laboratory ( Teddington, England ) and William Markowitz from the United States Naval Observatory ( USNO ) determined the relationship between the hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium atom and the ephemeris second.

Following the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Empire in the aftermath of the World War I, a National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs took power in Zagreb on 6 October 1918.

Following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ( CPA ) in 2005 between the government of Omar al-Bashir and the SPLA, a Government of National Unity was installed in Sudan in accordance with the Interim Constitution whereby a co-Vice President position representing the south was created in addition to the northern Sudanese Vice President.