What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

McClellan then resisted the President's demand that he pursue Lee's retreating and exposed army, while his counterpart General Don Carlos Buell likewise refused orders to move the Army of the Ohio against rebel forces in eastern Tennessee.

Remaining steadfast to his pedagogy, a forerunner of progressive and democratic schooling, he alienated parents in a later " parlor school " by admitting an African American child to the class, whom he then refused to expel in the face of protests.

Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.

The trio approached the Syrian arch-commander al-Sumayl ( then in Zaragoza ) to get his consent, but al-Sumayl refused, fearing Abd al-Rahman would try to make himself emir.

Ivinskaya was then taken to the Lubyanka Prison, where she refused to say anything incriminating about Pasternak.

The terms of the work-to-rule were that staff refused to work with the new equipment ( though the old black and white equipment had been disposed of by then ) and therefore programmes were recorded and transmitted in black and white, including Coronation Street The dispute was resolved in early 1971 and the last black and white episode was broadcast on 8 February 1971.

All of the bishops were then asked to sign their assent to the Tome, but a group of thirteen Egyptians refused, saying that they would assent to " the traditional faith.

Elizabeth Garrett then applied to several medical schools, including Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons, all of which refused her admittance.

This was duly lifted for long enough to allow Theobald's lands to be restored ; it was then lowered once more when Raoul refused to repudiate Petronilla, prompting Louis to return to the Champagne and ravage it once more.

He was one of three men who refused to sign the United States Constitution because it did not then include a Bill of Rights.

France then became a weak republic which refused to negotiate and was finished by Prussia in a few months.

Husain ibn Ali, by then Muhammad's only living grandson, refused to swear allegiance to Yazid.

But I, though I saw and heard these things, refused to write for a long time through doubt and bad opinion and the diversity of human words, not with stubbornness but in the exercise of humility, until, laid low by the scourge of God, I fell upon a bed of sickness ; then, compelled at last by many illnesses, and by the witness of a certain noble maiden of good conduct nun Richardis von Stade and of that man whom I had secretly sought and found, as mentioned above, I set my hand to the writing.

" Reno, then a candidate for Governor of Florida, refused to discuss her role in the case, leading one editorial to claim that she was " stonewalling.

In early 1995, Askar Akayev, the then President of Kyrgyzstan, attempted to sell Russian companies controlling shares in the republic's twenty-nine largest industrial plants, an offer that Russia refused.

Philip then attempted to intervene in the negotiations for Sibylla's second husband, and suggested one of his own retinue, but the native barons refused his suggestion.

Conrad, who was now the nearest kinsman to Baldwin V in the male line, and had already proved himself a capable military leader, then married Isabella, but Guy refused to concede the crown.

Charles of Anjou also died in 1285, and the military orders and the commune of Acre accepted Henry II as king ; Odo Poilechen refused to recognize him, but was allowed to hand Acre over to the Templars rather than Henry directly, and the Templars then handed it to the king.

Rock had problems with the release of " Picture ", a country-influenced duet with Sheryl Crow: his label felt it was wrong for his image, and was not keen to spend more money promoting a flagging album ; then, when they agreed to release it, Sheryl Crow's label initially refused to give permission.

Moses turned down the opportunity to have the Israelites completely destroyed and a great nation made from his own offspring, and instead he told the people that they would wander the wilderness for forty years until all those twenty years or older who had refused to enter Canaan had died, and that their children would then enter and possess Canaan.

Minos then asked Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos ' wife Pasiphae with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build.

He had them build huge walls around the city and promised to reward them well, a promise he then refused to fulfill.

She has refused to do so, and since then Scappaticci has not launched any libel actions against the media making the allegations.

* 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.

He was asked to resign after the release of Quake II, then moved to Electronic Arts where he gained industry notoriety with the development of his own game American McGee's Alice.

A deputation of leading barons led by Bishop Orleton was then sent to Kenilworth to first persuade Edward to resign and, when that failed, to inform him that he had been deposed as king.

From this body she campaigned on a wide range of liberal issues, including the right of women to sit on juries, the then requirement that all women upon marriage resign from the civil service, and the right to the legal availability of contraception.

In 2008, with Israel's then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, being pressured to resign due to corruption charges, Mofaz announced that he would run for the leadership of the Kadima party.

Mill argues that if people who are “ competently acquainted ” with two pleasures show a decided preference for one even if it be accompanied by more discontent and “ would not resign it for any quantity of the other ” then it is legitimate to regard that pleasure as being superior in quality.

If the parliament passes a resolution of no confidence, or refuses to pass an important bill such as the budget, then the government must either resign so that a different government can be appointed or seek a parliamentary dissolution so that new general elections may be held in order to re-confirm or deny the government's mandate.

The protestors ' demands then escalated to calls for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign.

In 1997, several Republican Congressional leaders tried to force Speaker Newt Gingrich to resign ; however Gingrich refused since that would have required a new election for Speaker, which could led to the possibility that Democrats — along with dissenting Republicans — would vote for the Democrat Dick Gephardt ( then Minority Leader ) as Speaker.

As the armed forces surrounded La Moneda Palace, Allende gave his last speech vowing not to resign, and then committed suicide.

His options for resigning were to delay his resignation until further along in the impeachment process to try and settle for a censure vote in Congress, or to pardon himself and then resign.

The company's board of directors forced then – Chairman and CEO Rick Scott to resign at the beginning of the federal investigation ; Scott was subsequently elected Governor of Florida in 2010.

The club actually won the 1st round game of the Football League Trophy away to Tranmere Rovers but was then forced to resign from the competition after fielding the ineligible Ray Putterill in the game.

In 2001, Stephen Byers, then Secretary of State for Transport, was forced to resign because of the actions of his special adviser Jo Moore, who instructed a departmental civil servant, Martin Sixsmith, that September 11th 2001 would be " a good day to bury bad news "; this was seen as inappropriate political manipulation of the Civil Service.

Bokassa then took Dacko to Camp Kassaï, where he forced the president to resign.

Ultimately, on August 8, 1974, after the U. S. Supreme Court voted by 8 to 0 to reject Nixon's claims of executive privilege and release the tapes ( with then Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist recusing himself because, as an assistant attorney general during Nixon's first term, he had taken part in internal executive-branch discussions of the scope of executive privilege ), Nixon announced his decision to resign as President.

In November 2009: Professor David Nutt was asked to resign from his position as chairman of the Government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs by the then Home Secretary ( Alan Johnson ), after publishing in a professional journal figures which indicated that cannabis was less harmful than both alcohol and tobacco.

In defence Bob Ainsworth says: “ If I had put forward the views that I was slowly developing as a minister then, I would have had to resign.

The plan was, through the use of troops conveniently arrayed around Paris, first to persuade the Directors to resign, then to persuade the two Councils to appoint a pliant commission to draw up a new constitution.

Douglas-Home shared their view that Labour would win the 1970 election, and that Heath might then have to resign, but he declined to commit himself.

" Australian writer Gideon Haigh subsequently pointed out that, if Gavaskar genuinely believed this, " then he should almost certainly resign, for if the ICC is a bastion of ' white man's justice ', Gavaskar bears some of the blame for having failed to change it.

In 1986, he moved to the Treasury, first as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, then Chief Secretary to the Treasury ( succeeding John Major in the latter job on Major's promotion to Foreign Secretary in July 1989 ) under Chancellor Nigel Lawson, whom he tried unsuccessfully to persuade not to resign from the government on the morning of 26 October 1989 – Lawson resigned that evening.

Additionally, if the Government loses the confidence of the Cortes, then it must resign.

Nasser then threatens to resign, implying that Egypt might turn to the United States for help in the future.