Washington's loss of Philadelphia prompted some members of Congress to discuss removing Washington from command.

That report prompted investigations by the U. S. Congress, in the form of the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission that looked into domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI, and intelligence-related agencies of the military.

" Draining the Everglades was suggested as early as 1837, and a resolution in Congress was passed in 1842 that prompted Secretary of Treasury Robert J. Walker to request those with experience in the Everglades to give their opinion on the possibility of drainage.

The crash made national headlines and prompted Congress to commission the Copeland Committee report on air traffic safety.

As a result of this inflation, the greenback went on to trade at a substantial discount from gold, which prompted Congress to pass the short-lived Anti-gold futures act of 1864, which was soon repealed after it seemed to accelerate the decline of the greenback.

When tensions with Great Britain prompted Congress to appropriate funds for Colt's project toward the end of 1841, he demonstrated his underwater mines to the US government.

The accident prompted Congress to pass a law mandating Emergency Locator Transmitters in all U. S. civil aircraft.

Stockton's treatment in the New York prison prompted Continental Congress to pass a resolution directing George Washington to inquire into the circumstances and not long afterward, Stockton was paroled on January 13, 1777.

The unwillingness of Congress to deal with the issue prompted Knox to write a warning letter, in which he wrote " I consider the reputation of the American army as one of the most immaculate things on earth, and that we should even suffer wrongs and injuries to the utmost verge of toleration rather than sully it in the least degree.

In 1898, Houstonians appealed before Congress for permission to turn the Buffalo Bayou into a deepwater port, prompted in part by the Spanish-American War ; construction of the Port of Houston was approved by Congress in 1899.

This prompted Congress to revoke their legal tender status, and restrict their coinage to exportation demand only.

Many political commentators claimed that Hong Kong would experience a surge in people claiming the right of abode from mainland China, possibly disrupting the economy of Hong Kong, which prompted the Hong Kong Government to ask the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to reinterpret Articles 22 ( 4 ) and 24 ( 2 )( 3 ) of Hong Kong's Basic Law, which effectively overturned the court decision.

The decisions were very controversial and have prompted Congress to consider the only remaining legal avenue to enact flag protection statutes — a constitutional amendment.

This prompted the Great Powers to obtain a revision of this treaty at the Congress of Berlin through the Treaty of Berlin, 1878.

Few's growing political prominence and undisputed talent for leadership prompted the state legislature in 1780 to appoint him to represent Georgia in the Continental Congress.

The lack of armed vessels to dispute British naval activities in coastal waters and to facilitate the seizure of commercial and military prizes prompted individual colonies to commission armed vessels, and eventually led the Continental Congress to authorize the creation of a small Continental Navy on October 13, 1775.

Though renewed interest over the last few years in immigration reform has prompted the introduction of legislation in Congress to deny the children of the unauthorized jus soli status, these measures have been political non-starters, in large part because of the widespread view that the Supreme Court would strike down any such legislation as unconstitutional.

This prompted Congress to amend the law to allow limited judicial review of NSLs, and prompted the government to appeal the case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Despite significant political differences and disagreements between the Thirteen Colonies, tensions occasioned by the harsh Parliamentary response to the 1773 Boston Tea Party prompted the calling of the First Continental Congress, which produced a united response to the Intolerable Acts of 1774.

Although war in Europe prompted Congress to vastly increase the appropriations for the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps in 1916, it nevertheless tabled a bill proposing an aviation department incorporating all aspects of military aviation.

Since none of the candidates managed to get the Constitutionally-established minimum of one third of the vote required to win outright, selection of the President would fall to Congress ; the long-held antagonistic relationship between the military and APRA prompted Haya de la Torre to make a deal with former dictator Odría, who had come in third, which would result in Odría taking the Presidency in a coalition government.

The accident prompted Congress to pass a law mandating emergency locator transmitters in all United States civil aircraft.

The growing tension prompted MPs in December 2007 to pass a non-binding resolution banning the use of the country ’ s territory for any attack on Iran.

This accident prompted Parliament to pass the 1844 Railway Regulation Act requiring railway companies to provide better carriages for passengers.

In September, 2011 lingering bad feelings over the raid and the sesquicentennial of the event prompted the Osceola Board of Aldermen to pass a resolution asking the University of Kansas to no longer use " Jayhawk " as their mascot and nickname.

He appointed a Royal Commission to assess the state of law between employers and employees, the result of which prompted Richard Cross to pass of the Employers and Workmen Act of 1875.

Although the federal government did not recognize Walker's election, the political activity prompted the federal government to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act to organize Kansas and Nebraska territories.

Shortly after the U. S. Civil War, some states started to pass their own immigration laws, which prompted the U. S. Supreme Court to rule in 1875 that immigration was a federal responsibility.

These attacks, as well as similar incidents that caused the Southern Poverty Law Center to declare in 2002 that the animal rights movement had " clearly taken a turn toward the more extreme ," this prompted the US government to pass the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and the UK government to add the offense of " Intimidation of persons connected with animal research organisation " to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

The assassination prompted President Figueroa Alcorta to declare a state of siege and pass the Social Defense Law, which allowed the deportation of anarchist " agitators ".

PiS has presented a project for constitutional reform including, among others: allowing the president the right to pass laws by decree ( when prompted to do so by the Cabinet ), a reduction of the number of members of the Sejm and Senat, and removal of constitutional bodies overseeing the media and monetary policy.

A visit to Seoul by the Crown Prince of Japan prompted the demolition of the walls around Namdaemun, as the prince was deemed to be too exalted to pass through the gateway.

Abuse of consumer marketing applications of voicemail marketing resulted in an abundance of " voice-spam ," and prompted many jurisdictions to pass laws regulating consumer voicemail marketing.

The controversy surrounding the use of clothes lines has prompted many governments to pass " right-to-dry " laws allowing their use.

He led the offense on a 91-yard march downfield with 11 crucial completions, including a touchdown pass and a two-point conversion, that prompted former President Ronald Reagan to call Marinovich to invite him to his home in Los Angeles.

In recent years, the low scores of NHL games have prompted the league to debate a wide variety of rule change proposals including enlarging the size of the goal, widening the blue and red lines to create a larger offensive zone, restricting where goaltenders can handle the puck, breaking ties with a penalty shot shootout, and eliminating the two-line pass rule, which does not exist in international and most amateur rulebooks.

Three years later, his game-winning home run during Game 5 of the 1985 National League Championship Series prompted broadcaster Jack Buck's " Go crazy, folks!

By the 19th century, the Bulgarian National Revival became a key component of the struggle for independence, which would culminate in the failed April uprising in 1876, which prompted the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 and the subsequent Liberation of Bulgaria.

Plaid Cymru's emergence ( along with the Scottish National Party ) prompted the Wilson government to establish the Kilbrandon Commission on the constitution.

In July 2000, prompted by the publication of ‘ Neighbors ,’ the Polish Institute of National Remembrance ( Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, IPN ), then a recently created independent successor to the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland, commenced an investigation of the Jedwabne pogrom, as its first project.

The record's success was the subject of a National Educational Television TV special, which prompted budding songwriter John Fogerty to contact the label.

The murders prompted industrial action by the National Railworkers Union in Britain and Ireland.

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României ( rank of ceremonial knighthood ) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

( A magazine holding the trademark to the name prompted the change to National Review.

This failure prompted the SLP to disband ; and members either fell out of active politics, re-joined the Labour Party, or chose to join the Scottish National Party ( SNP ), which both Sillars and Neil did, with both rising to high office in the SNP.

This prompted the appointment in 1978, by Mr John Bruton, T. D., of the Cospóir Long Distance Walking Routes Committee ( now the National Trails Advisory Committee of the Irish Sport Council ) to establish a national network of long-distance paths in Ireland.

The league's rejection of the proposed move to Vancouver prompted a lawsuit that was not settled until 1974 ( San Francisco Seals Ltd. v. National Hockey League ).

The Monument was once part of Yosemite National Park, but discovery of gold in 1905 near Mammoth Lakes prompted a boundary change that left the Postpile on adjacent public land.

At that time, Basilan was in the middle of the Moro National Liberation Front Uprising prompted by the expose of the Jabidah Massacre on March 18, 1968.

However, because of the effects of the Great Depression and a perception that the existing coalition government had handled the situation poorly, the National Political Federation lost heavily in 1935 to the Labour Party, the rise of which had originally prompted the alliance.

Adam's kidnapping and murder prompted John Walsh to become an advocate for victims rights and helped to spur the formation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ( NCMEC ).

The success of Fianna Fáil prompted the National Centre Party to amalgamate with Cumann na nGaedheal to become Fine Gael in 1933.

Awareness that older kinds of song were being abandoned prompted renewed interest in collecting folk songs during the 1830s and 1840s, including the work of William B. Sandys ' Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), William Chappell, A Collection of National English Airs ( 1838 ) and Robert Bell's Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England ( 1846 ).

The energy price declines of the early 1980s prompted the federal and provincial governments to update their revenue sharing agreements .< ref > Canadian Public Policy “ The National Energy Program Meets Falling World Oil Prices ” John F. Helliwell, Mary E. MacGregor and Andre Plourde, Department of Economics, the University of British Columbia.

Her disappearance garnered great media coverage throughout the United States and prompted the creation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry.

Ironically, the National opposition prompted the adoption of the Statute in 1947 when its leader and future Prime Minister Sidney Holland introduced a private members ' bill to abolish the New Zealand Legislative Council.

The Soviet Union first nuclear test in 1949 prompted the National Security Council to formulate a revised security doctrine.

In 1993, worsening civil strife in Abkhazia prompted the Mkhedrioni and National Guard to launch a joint operation in the region to root out separatists and Gamsakhurdia supporters.

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