So John had refused to agree to his appointment as a preacher, and now Caroli sought revenge.

* 1290 – 1291: Richard, refused the appointment

However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.

John refused Innocent's request that he consent to Langton's appointment, but the pope consecrated Langton anyway in June 1207.

Soon afterwards, Philip of Flanders arrived in Jerusalem on pilgrimage ; he was Baldwin IV's cousin, and the king offered him the regency and command of the army, both of which Philip refused, although he objected to the appointment of Raynald as regent.

Gottwald not only refused to resign, but demanded the appointment of a Communist-dominated government under threat of a general strike.

His proposal envisioned appointment of one additional justice for each incumbent justice who reached the age of 70 years 6 months and refused retirement, up to a maximum bench of 15 justices.

Along with Iain Macleod, Powell refused to serve in the Cabinet following the appointment of Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister.

At the outset, Garfield's relationship with the newly inaugurated President was cool on both sides ; Grant refused a requested post office appointment which Garfield recommended ; Garfield, out of loyalty to his army commander, still harbored some resentment for Grant's dismissal of Rosecrans.

The prince refused this and on 25 February a compromise was reached: an appointment by the States-General of the Netherlands for one summer, followed by a permanent appointment on his twenty-second birthday.

He refused the appointment of Prussian minister of public instruction in 1810.

" Arnold's appointment was not without trouble ; Jacobus Wynkoop, who had been in command of the fleet, refused to accept that Gates had authority over him, and had to be arrested.

His relationship with Anne had suffered further setbacks in recent months ( she had refused to grant him his requested appointment of Captain-General for life, and had interfered in military appointments ).

If the King of Spain ever refused in conscience to grant Royal Assent to a Bill a procedure similar to the one that was used in Belgium to handle King Baudouin's objection would not be possible under the current Constitution: in Spain, if the King were ever declared incapable of discharging the royal authority, his powers would not be transferred to the Cabinet pending the parliamentary appointment of a Regency.

Chief of Staff Alexander Haig approved Buchanan's appointment as ambassador to South Africa, but Ford refused it.

He refused offers of professorships at Bologna and Padua, and also the appointment as court astronomer to King Ladislaus of Hungary, but went back to Vienna in 1450 to teach.

The manner of his appointment was controversial, and two of Macmillan's cabinet ministers refused to take office under Home.

In December he was proposed for the command of the forces in the west, an appointment which he appears to have refused.

King George refused to make this appointment also until Lord Ligonier talked to the king about the matter and the king changed his mind.

As committee member Captain Francis Cadell had opposed his appointment as leader of the expedition, Burke refused his offer to transport the supplies to Adelaide by ship and then up the Murray and Darling Rivers to be collected on the way ; everything was instead loaded onto six wagons.

In 1964, Republican state chairman Osro Cobb, a fomer United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, not only refused to endorse Rockefeller but openly supported Faubus, who subseqauently gave Cobb a temporary appointment to the Arkansas Supreme Court.

The death of another federal judge on January 26 provided a second opportunity for Roosevelt to appoint Senator Logan to a judgeship and appease Chandler, but Logan refused to consider the appointment.

Following his appointment as Minister responsible for equality, Ahern has refused to be drawn on this matter and has not given an answer as to whether he still holds those opinions.

During this appointment he tried to assist long-time friend and fellow marshal Ney by providing him a jury of four other Napoleonic Marshals, but was disgraced when Marshal Moncey refused to even sit in it.

Established by this point was the purposeful alignment of an " all Canadian route " -- within the rubric of national interest, the federal government refused to consider a less costly route bypassing the rugged Canadian Shield of northern Ontario by passing south through Wisconsin and Minnesota.

In 1926 King advised the Governor General, Lord Byng, to dissolve Parliament and call another election, but Byng refused, the only time in Canadian history that the Governor General has exercised such a power.

Under King's administration, the Canadian government, responding to strong public opinion, especially in Quebec, refused to expand immigration opportunities for Jewish refugees from Europe.

" Despite the potential benefits of the agreement to the country, which Roosevelt as well understood and anticipated, all was for naught when the Canadian legislature refused to approve it.

* Jacob Markowitz, Romania-born Canadian physician ( 1901 – 1969 ), AKA as the " Jungle Surgeon " who enlisted with the RAMC after being refused into the Canadian military for his Jewish heritage.

Two leading Canadian Sikh politicians refused to attend the parade in Surrey, saying it was a glorification of terrorism.

In 1996, Canadian Sarah McLachlan became frustrated with concert promoters and radio stations that refused to feature two female musicians in a row.

He employed single women as secretaries in an era when clerical workers were predominantly male, and defended a native Canadian accused of murder at a time when most lawyers refused such cases.

The Canadian Post Office refused to accept the name Lethbridge for the community until 1885 because there was another town with the same name in the Dominion of Canada.

The win over Balmy Beach carried the Canadian title, as the west refused the Canadian Rugby Union code.

The House of Assembly and the Legislative Council were furious at this interference in Upper Canadian politics, and in February again deprived Mackenzie of his vote in the House and refused to call fresh elections.

Once Mackenzie's old friend John Rolph entered the Hincks-Morin ministry, he offered Mackenzie a plum job in Haldimand County, but Mackenzie refused, saying that he would not burden the Canadian taxpayers with an unnecessary post.

The series was arranged by the Canadian Rugby Union when it refused to allow Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the Western winners, to compete in the final because the West had played its season under rules which varied from rules in the East.

At the APEC summit in 1999, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien refused to meet Mahathir, while his foreign minister met with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

Thomson was reputed to have been refused entry into the Canadian Expeditionary Force for service in the First World War also.

He initially went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but the RCMP officers on duty refused to believe his story.

The issue was not resolved until 1916, when the new Minister of Overseas Military Forces of Canada, Sir G. H. Perley, removed Steele from his Canadian command after Steele refused to return to Canada as a recruiter.

For the November 2006 University Rankings issue, 22 Canadian universities refused to provide information directly to Maclean's.

Hepburn, at the time professing a deep concern about radicals among auto workers and supported by the owners of the plant and General Motors, organized a volunteer police force to help him put down the strike when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to send the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The Canadian judges refused to sign the award ( issued 20 October 1903 ) as a protest and violent anti-British feeling erupted in Canada.

In 1932 Canada refused his request to join the Canadian Confederation.

The business of the Canadian House of Commons ground to a halt for three weeks because the Opposition refused to respond to the bell summoning Members of Parliament to come to the chamber to vote.