The Roman Catholic Church does not consider the validity of an ecumenical council's teaching to be in any way dependent on where it is held or on the granting or withholding of prior authorization or legal status by any state, in line with the attitude of the 5th-century bishops who " saw the definition of the church's faith and canons as supremely their affair, with or without the leave of the Emperor " and who " needed no one to remind them that Synodical process pre-dated the Christianisation of the royal court by several centuries ".

Nehru was disconcerted with what he saw as a " very much an English-knowing upper class affair.

Jackson saw attacks on Eaton stemming ultimately from the political opposition of Calhoun, and he used the affair to consolidate control over his cabinet, forcing the resignation of several members and ending Calhoun's influence in the cabinet.

The British claimed it was an internal affair while the Irish saw it as an international agreement between two independent states, a point which was accepted by the League of Nations, when that body registered the Treaty in 1924.

At times, even the guests would find out that someone else had been listening to their confession while they were on stage or in the audience ( on one show in 1995, a guy who admitted to having a affair was unaware that his wife was onstage after Ricki saw her there and asked if she knew anything about what he was doing behind her back ).

The first two episodes of the season saw the affair between Gillespie and DeLong intensify only to be interrupted by a crack war waged on Sparta involving Eugene.

1966 saw Ortiz draw with world Jr Welterweight champion Nicolino Locche in a ten round non-title affair in Argentina, and retain his title vs Johnny Bizarro ( KO in 12 in Pittsburgh ), Cuban Sugar Ramos ( another International Boxing Hall Of Fame Member, ko in 5 rounds in Mexico City ) and Filipino Flash Elorde, also by ko in 14 at a New York rematch.

2009 also saw the show's first bi-sexual love triangle and lesbian storyline when Yvonne Doyle had an affair with her best friend Connie Boylan.

This may take a tragic form-' I saw no prospect of its ending except with death-the death of one of three people ' - or alternately a comic one: ' A man at the funeral of a friend's wife, with whom he has been carrying on an affair, breaks into tears and finally becomes hysterical, while the husband remains impassive.

He served as Chairman of Airbus in the late 1980s, until his death in 1988 ; he saw the company win a lucrative but controversial ( see Airbus affair ) contract to supply planes to Air Canada just before his death.

Nor in estimating his dramatic position and his effect upon his time must it be forgotten that his classical and mythological plots, flavourless and dull as they would be to a modern audience, were charged with interest to those courtly hearers who saw in Midas Philip II, Elizabeth in Cynthia and perhaps Leicester's unwelcome marriage with Lady Sheffield in the love affair between Endymion and Tellus which brings the former under Cynthia's displeasure.

On-screen, Kemp, as Grant, was often at the centre of EastEnders plots, amongst them abusive marriages to Sharon Watts ( Letitia Dean ) and Tiffany Mitchell ( Martine McCutcheon ), and the " Sharongate " storyline, that saw Grant's brother Phil Mitchell ( Steve McFadden ) conduct an affair with his wife.

This, coupled with the " dodgy documents affair ", also known as " dodgy-gate ", saw Hamilton-Smith step down from the Liberal leadership, to be replaced by Isobel Redmond.

Some MEPs saw the affair as part of a power struggle between the two bodies.

While the whole affair, which saw the resignation of the Minister for Health, Noël Browne, was not entirely to blame for the collapse of the government it added to the pressure between the various political parties.

Every evening from this time on Gribelin brought to him at the Military Club the program for the next day ; Du Paty and Henry, whose connection with the affair Esterhazy soon knew, saw him several times, sometimes at the Montmartre cemetery, sometimes on the Pont d ' Alexandre III.

The Dreyfus affair saw a Jewish military officer named Captain Alfred Dreyfus falsely accused of treason in 1895 by his army superiors and sent to Devil's Island after being convicted.

The fight then settled down into a " remarkably dull " affair, which drew boos from the crowd and saw both men warned by the referee Teddy Waltham for the lack of action.

Furthermore, he could see little benefit for South Africa in taking part in a war that he saw as an essentially European affair.

The sailors even deposed their commander because they saw him as involved in the affair.

For several months prior to Survivor Series, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels had several backstage arguments including a fight before a house show in Hartford, Connecticut ( after Michaels had publicly accused Hart of having an affair with Sunny ), which saw Michaels suspended for 2 months.

Stewart went public with the affair to the newspapers after what she saw as Johnson ’ s hypocrisy over his views on morality, religion and family values.

It also saw the entrenched status of the Queensland Labor Party with its untouchable majority, despite allegations of bullying by senior Ministers, improper private use of public vehicles, the " Wingate " affair involving first-time Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Liddy Clark, and the Government's repeated use of Freedom of Information laws to prevent the publication of potentially damaging information.

At the beginning of the regular season, he went 0 for 10 in a 24-inning affair with the Houston Astros that saw his batting average go from. 313 to. 192.

The fall of the Ming Dynasty was a protracted affair, its roots beginning as early as 1600 with the emergence of the Manchu under Nurhaci.

Some of them founded Action Française in 1898, during the Dreyfus affair, which became an influent movement throughout the 1930s, in particular among the intellectuals of Paris ' Quartier Latin.

Numerous petitions from " intellectuals " protested against these hasty measures and demanded that the judgment of Picquart should be delayed until the result of the inquiry in the Court of Cassation should have put in its true light the part he had played in all this affair.

The 1938 series was high-scoring affair with many high-scoring draws, resulting in a 1 – 1 result, Australia retaining the Ashes.

By his zeal and exertions – for there were many conflicting interests to reconcile – he adjusted the affair in a manner at once creditable to his judgment and fortunate for his country.

In the Dymshits – Kuznetsov hijacking affair on 15 June 1970, a group of Soviet refuseniks attempted to hijack a civilian aircraft in order to escape to the West, were caught and spent many years in Soviet prisons.

* Dymshits – Kuznetsov hijacking affair

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

The 22-inning affair was the longest since August 31, 1993, when the Minnesota Twins, at home, defeated the Cleveland Indians, 5 – 4, in 22 innings.

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* 1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

After the affair between David and Katrine became known, David Longfield's father ( Beatty's grandfather ), David Vandeleur Beatty ( 1815 – 1881 ), arranged for his son to be posted to India in the hope that the scandalous relationship might end.

In addition, having been close to him in their youth, she now showed excessive affection towards her uncle – whilst many historians today dismiss this as familial affection ( noting their early friendship, and his similarity to her father and grandfather ), many of Eleanor's adversaries mistook the generous displays of affection between uncle and niece for an incestuous affair.

* 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.

** Madame LaMotte in The Romance of the Forest – naively assumes that her husband is having an affair with Adeline.

The Iran – Contra affair (, ), also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986.

* 1952 – Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

For example, in Spitting Image, Major's puppet was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying " nice peas, dear ", whilst at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.

* 1973 – In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.

* 1898 – Émile Zola's J ' accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.

This series of texts was quickly followed by the Post-Vulgate Cycle ( c. 1230 – 40 ), of which the Suite du Merlin is a part, which greatly reduced the importance of Lancelot's affair with Guinevere but continued to sideline Arthur, now in order to focus more on the Grail quest.

* 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America

The Harden-Eulenburg affair of 1907 – 1909 was the first public outing scandal of the twentieth century.

* 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case.

The most notable leader of the movement, though maintaining a certain distance from the Old Catholic Church as an institution, was the renowned church historian and priest Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( 1799 – 1890 ), who had been excommunicated by the pope because of his support for the affair.