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" It accused the rulers of having " degenerated from the virtue and good government of their predecessors into tyranny ; governed contrary to all right laws, exercised such tyranny and arbitrary government, oppressed men in their consciences and civil rights ...", and affirmed in its final article that, " We bind and oblige ourselves to defend ourselves, and one another, in our worshipping of God, and in our natural, civil and divine rights and liberties, till we shall overcome, or send them down under debate to posterity, that they may begin where we end.
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* Judgement on wicked Zion ( 3: 1 – 4 ): Israel's rulers are accused of gaining more wealth at the expense of the poor, by any means.
Roman rulers began to persecute the new sect almost immediately ( the emperor Nero accused the Christians of starting the fires that destroyed much of Rome in 64 AD ), and would continue to do so for centuries, sometimes vigorously, and other times passively.
In the Greek rulers of Jerusalem are accused of bringing prostitutes ( hetairai ) into the Jerusalem Temple and having sex with them there:
Prince Luitpold was even accused by some people of the murder of his nephew, but soon the decent and affable prince became one of Bavaria's most popular rulers.
He was more moderate than his predecessor Kyrillos II and was accused of being too sympathetic to the British colonial rulers of Cyprus.
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The state Public Works Department is accused of having spent $8,555 to build a private beach for a state judge on his waterfront property.
Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.
Caligula and his sisters were accused of having incestuous relationships.
In 708, some monks at Hexham accused Bede of having committed heresy in his work De Temporibus.
Edamaruku stated that the regular gargling and bathing activities were not sufficiently monitored, and accused Jani of having had some " influential protectors " who denied Edamaruku permission to inspect the project during its operation.
It was this very success that was the object of harsh critiques by Carlo Gozzi, who accused Goldoni of having deprived the Italian theatre of the charms of poetry and imagination.
Khrushchev was forced to resign from all his posts in 1964, having been accused of breaching the Leninist code of conduct
Biafra also accused the releases of the new live material of having poor sound quality.
However, a mulatto who escaped the destruction of Syn's previous ship stowed away in Clegg's ship and accused him before the crew ; Clegg quelled the potential mutiny by having the mulatto's tongue cut out, marooning him on a coral reef and violently killing Yellow Pete, the ship's Chinese cook, who represented the crew in their wish to rescue the mulatto.
Yet he was ever more bitterly accused of having started the whole " tragedy " ( as the Roman Catholics dubbed Protestantism ).
One biography of Orwell accused him of having had an authoritarian streak.
Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.
Greenpeace has accused several corporations, such as Unilever, Nike ,, KFC, KitKat and McDonald's of having links to the deforestation of the tropical rainforests, resulting in policy changes in several of the companies under criticism.
He also accused Greenpeace of having unofficial agreements with polluting companies where the companies paid Greenpeace to keep them from attacking the company's image.
In 1906 Giacosa died and, in 1909, there was scandal after Puccini's wife, Elvira, falsely accused their maid Doria Manfredi of having an affair with Puccini.
In 1909, Puccini's wife Elvira publicly accused Doria Manfredi, a maid working for the Puccini family, of having an affair with the composer.
" He also instead turned charge on the West for having accused Iran with support of terrorism and said " The real terrorists are those who provide the Zionist regime with military equipment to bomb the people.
The last attempted impeachment occurred in 1848, when David Urquhart accused Lord Palmerston of having signed a secret treaty with Imperial Russia and of receiving monies from the Tsar.
Their treatment of the aboriginal inhabitants, whom they are accused of having practically exterminated, is a grave charge, and if true, cannot be condoned on the plea that such conduct was characteristic of the age, and that as bad or worse was perpetrated by other nations even in later years.
Also in the article, Voight accused four-star General and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Wesley Clark of having " shame upon him, having been relieved of his command " and said that Clark " has done their Obama camp's ' bidding and become a lying fool in his need to demean a fellow soldier and a true hero.
President Akayev was widely accused of having manipulated a boycott by a majority of the parliamentarians.
President Akayev was widely accused of having manipulated a boycott by a majority of the parliamentarians.
Satrajit accused Krishna of having killed his brother.
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in the opening paragraph, too, Steele is accused of extreme egotism, of giving `` himself the preference to all the learned, his contemporaries, from Dr. Swift himself, even down to Poet Cr--spe of the Customhouse ''.
McNair, 25, was seized March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload of rifles in Pinar Del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana.
* 1612 – The " Samlesbury witches ", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.
In one case from the 5th century BC, the ten treasurers of the Delian league ( the Hellenotamiai ) were accused at their scrutinies of misappropriation of funds.
Paul is rescued from the mob by a Roman commander () and accused of being a revolutionary, " ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ", teaching resurrection of the dead, and thus imprisoned in Caesarea ().
At that meeting, Athanasius was accused of threatening to interfere with the supply of grains from Egypt, and, without any kind of formal trial, was exiled by Constantine to Trier in the Rhineland.
Shortly before the World Cup Charlton was involved in the Bogotá Bracelet incident in which he and Bobby Moore were accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery store.
Local labourer Matthew Weeks was accused of the murder and at noon on 12 August 1844 he was led from Bodmin Gaol and hanged.
By those ignorant of the details of his discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus, Tischendorf was accused of buying manuscripts from ignorant monastery librarians at low prices.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office accused Columbia of accepting grant money from the Alavi Foundation to support faculty " sympathetic " to Iran's Islamic republic.
During the 10th Party Congress ( March 1921 ) Lenin condemned the Workers Opposition, a faction within the Communist Party, for deviating from communism and accused Trotsky of factionalism.
The second season had no connecting story arc ; plots varied from Wally finding disciples (" The Shroud of Wally ") to Dilbert being accused of mass murder (" The Trial ").
When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.
A group of Quito's leading citizens followed suit, and on August 10, 1809, they seized power in the name of Ferdinand from the local representatives, whom they accused of preparing to recognize Joseph Bonaparte.
He was accused by many in the CDU / CSU of offering " half-hearted " support to Angela Merkel, with some even accusing him of being reluctant to support a female candidate from the East.
Nevertheless, Bischoff ’ s main argument was in reference to Haeckel ’ s drawings of human embryos, for Haeckel is later accused of miscopying the dog embryo from him.
But when Savonarola publicly accused Pope Alexander VI of corruption, he was banned from speaking in public.
This is a departure from Nkrumah's foreign policy approach ; Nkrumah was frequently accused of subverting African regimes, such as Togo and Côte d ' Ivoire, which he considered ideologically conservative.
Metsähallitus accused Greenpeace of theft and said that the tree was from a normal forest and had been left standing because of its old age.
For his invention Davy was awarded £ 2, 000, whilst Stephenson was accused of stealing the idea from Davy.
He was accused by many eminent persons of various misdeeds, ranging from an unrestricted sexual life ( including raping a nun ) to undue political domination over the royal family.
The film, accused of fascism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, tells the story of the U. S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a Turkish soldier ; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv.
The reformist but moderate document, accused by detractors of French Revolution sympathies, soon generated strong opposition coming from the Commonwealth's upper nobility conservative circles and Catherine II, determined to prevent a rebirth of the strong Commonwealth.
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