Archbishop Heriger of Mainz offered to anoint Henry according to the usual ceremony, but he refused to be anointed by a high church official — the only King of his time not to undergo that rite — allegedly because he wished to be king not by the church's but by the people's acclaim.

However, after four days, in which she was allegedly tortured by English soldiers and possibly raped, she refused again to wear female clothes, which was seen as a sign of her return to heresy.

On November 4, 1928, Arnold Rothstein was murdered, allegedly because he refused to pay his debts from a poker game he believed to have been fixed.

Garfield refused, as irrelevant, a request to subpoena the President's sister, whose husband was allegedly involved in the scandal.

Jackson was medically cleared to play Game 3, but manager Bob Lemon refused to start him or even play him, allegedly acting under orders from Steinbrenner.

Of the two sisters, de Havilland was the first to become an actress ; when Fontaine tried to follow her lead, their mother, who allegedly favored de Havilland, refused to let her use the family name.

He allegedly refused to portray a Nazi unless he was assured the character would be a buffoon or a complete scoundrel.

According to a 1977 Mother Jones article by Mark Dowie, Ford allegedly was aware of the design flaw, refused to pay for a redesign, and decided it would be cheaper to pay off possible lawsuits.

Brahms's biographer Max Kalbeck ridiculed Wolf for his immature writing and odd tonalities ; another composer refused to share a program with him, while Amalie Materna, a Wagnerian singer, had to cancel her Wolf recital when allegedly faced with the threat of being on the critics ' blacklist if she went on.

When her sister Joan tried to follow her lead, their mother, who allegedly favoured de Havilland, refused to let her use the family name.

Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single.

Workers at the Irish pressing plant contracted to manufacture the disc refused to handle it due to the allegedly blasphemous content of one song, " Asylum ".

In the mid 1970s he became Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, but he was allegedly dismissed when he refused to transfer a large sum of money at the demand of one of the President's uncles.

However, he was dismissed in 1998 after a disagreement with Hussein's children Uday Hussein and Qusay Hussein, allegedly when he refused to transfer a large sum of money abroad.

The producers looked elsewhere for a new star, allegedly contacting Kirk Alyn, the actor who had first portrayed Superman in the original movie serials and who had initially refused to play the role on television.

Ford allegedly threatened to sue TBN for wrongful termination and sexual harassment after the network refused to hire him following his release, resulting in his claims against Paul Crouch.

This event was suspected to have been an act of arson, allegedly by the hands of the fledgling UAW, which Durant had refused to acknowledge as a union.

The USSR were to be invited but they refused the invitation on political grounds, allegedly due to the continued IRFB membership of South Africa.

One farcical situation occurred owing to the aforementioned French inter-service rivalry: a Potez reconnaissance aircraft crew had allegedly spotted a huge concentration of Panzers and supporting infantry units concealed in the Ardennes forests two days after the start of the invasion – yet the army commanders refused to take any action because they believed that the air force was indulging itself in scaremongering.

" Duke is nothing but a con artist ," Jack Gregory, Duke's Florida state leader, told the Clearwater Sun ( of Florida ) after David Duke allegedly refused to turn over proceeds from a series of 1979 Klan rallies to the Knights.

There were rumors that he was beaten by drunken Russian soldiers after he allegedly refused to perform music for them one night.

After the party breaks up, Ichabod remains behind for " a tête-à-tête with the heiress ", where it is supposed that he makes a proposal of marriage to Katrina but, according to the narrator, " Something, however ... must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen ", meaning that his proposal is refused, allegedly because her sole purpose in courting him was either to test or to increase Brom's desire for her.

When the issue became public, the police had allegedly demanded more money, which he refused to pay.

He refused, allegedly saying he preferred to die with his boots on, and died almost a month later, aged 73.

His bill, allegedly aimed at Hoffa, would amend the Sherman, Clayton and Norris-LaGuardia acts to authorize the issuance of federal injunctions in any transportation strike and would make it illegal for any union to act in concert with any other union -- even a sister local in the same international.

ABC News, for instance, is allegedly under pressure not to air any stories that are overly critical of Disney, its parent company.

* Barry Bonds has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury in 2003 as part of the BALCO steroid scandal, in which he denied using any performance-enhancing drugs.

In United States v. Calandra,, the Supreme Court ruled that grand juries may use allegedly illegally obtained evidence in questioning witnesses because " the damage to that institution from the unprecedented extension of the exclusionary rule outweighs the benefit of any possible incremental deterrent effect.

Although the Serbian government has denied that any of their nationals are currently serving as mercenary soldiers in North Africa, five such men have been captured by anti-Gaddafi rebels in Tripoli and several others have also allegedly fought during the Second Battle of Benghazi.

There is also focus placed by pro-anarchist analysts on the many decades of organization and shorter period of CNT-FAI agitation that was to serve as a foundation for high membership levels throughout anarchist Spain, which is often referred to as a basis for the popularity of the anarchist collectives, rather than any presence of force or coercion that allegedly compelled unwilling persons to involuntarily participate.

The mockumentary Opération lune briefly claims Michael Collins to be so deeply disappointed by not having set foot on the moon that he allegedly has retired from any public life and that his current whereabouts are supposed to be unknown.

In Texas, a physician who voluntarily assisted in the delivery of an infant, and who proved that he had " no expectation of remuneration ", had no liability for the infant's injuries due to allegedly ordinary negligence ; there was " uncontroverted testimony that neither he nor any doctor in Travis County would have charged a fee to mother or any other person under the circumstances of this case.

Constantine proposed the appointment of any other person of the prime minister's choosing as defence minister because, as the king argued, there was a conflict of interest: the prime minister's son was allegedly involved in the scandal.

According to some sources, with these releases Eldritch allegedly won, over Hussey and Adams, a race for a £ 25, 000 advance ( a sum opening the song Jihad on the Gift album ) offered by the publishers to the first member of The Sisters of Mercy to release any output.

of War John H. Eaton and informed Eaton of the " military implications " in terms of the British allegedly alienating the Native population towards any American trappers in the Pacific Northwest.

In modern Israel, the Pulsa diNura ( a controversial Kabbalistic prayer taken to request God to block any further forgiveness of sin for an individual, causing death or some long-term misfortune to shut the individual out from functioning in society ) has allegedly been used against politicians by religious conservative opponents: one was claimed to have been used against Yitzhak Rabin one month prior to his 1995 assassination, and another was reportedly performed against Ariel Sharon six months prior to a catastrophic 2006 stroke that placed him into a persistent vegetative state.

Due to Republican president Abraham Lincoln's leading the Union against the Confederacy, these voters would allegedly " vote for a yellow dog before they would vote for any Republican ".

When she heard that her aunt Sylvia had willed most of her $ 2 million to charity, she challenged the will's validity in court by producing an earlier will which allegedly left the entire estate to Hetty, and included a clause invalidating any subsequent wills.

Step-Saver argued, that any liability that it had to its customers should be shared by both Wyse and TSL since they were the original providers of the allegedly defective software and hardware.

For example in 2004, in Wisconsin and elsewhere voters allegedly received flyers that said, “ If you already voted in any election this year, you can ’ t vote in the Presidential Election ”, implying that those who had voted in earlier primary elections were ineligible to vote.

Also, “ If anybody in your family has ever been found guilty of anything you can ’ t vote in the Presidential Election .” Finally, “ If you violate any of these laws, you can get 10 years in prison and your children will be taken away from you .” Another method, allegedly used in Cook County, Illinois in 2004, is to falsely tell particular people that they are not eligible to vote .< ref name = autogenerated2 >

Two days after his abduction, a telephone message allegedly from Islamic Jihad, claiming responsibility for the abduction " in order to renew our acceptance of Reagan's challenge and to confirm our commitment of the statement ... that we will not leave any American on Lebanese soil.

When the movie was released to DVD, Whitaker allegedly exercised an option in his contract which stipulated that the movie would not be released in any other format without authorization from the actor himself.

According to Winchell, the tree under which the stone was allegedly found had been destroyed before 1910, but several nearby poplars that witnesses estimated as being about the same size were cut down, and by counting their rings it was determined they were indeed around 30 – 40 years old ( NB: letters were written to members of a team which had excavated at the find site in 1899, and their estimates from memory, without any reference to tree rings, ranged as low as 10 – 12 years in the case of county schools superintendent Cleve Van Dyke ).