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Accusations that he accepted bribes from Cornelius Herz and the baron de Reinach compelled his resignation from the Ribot cabinet during the Panama scandals in December 1892.
" In order to establish a constructive discharge, an employee must plead and prove, by the usual preponderance of the evidence standard, that the employer either intentionally created or knowingly permitted working conditions that were so intolerable or aggravated at the time of the employee's resignation that a reasonable employer would realize that a reasonable person in the employee's position would be compelled to resign.
McDowell was treasurer of the National Grange for nearly twenty-one years, from January 1873 until November1893, until failing health compelled his resignation in November 1893.
Metcalfe's success in this delicate position was very marked, but unfortunately his health compelled his resignation and return to England in 1842.
The unfortunate results of the campaign of 1809 compelled his resignation ; but in 1813 he was commissioned to negotiate the convention which finally overthrew Napoleon.
At Harvard, his ardent patriotism led him to adopt measures that were obnoxious to the Tory students, and although he endeavored to administer the government of the college with justice, his resignation was virtually compelled in 1780.
The defeat at Novara compelled Rattazzi's resignation in March 1849.
A multitude of controversies had compelled Jung to announce her resignation.
In 1875, they moved to the Masonic Temple, but four years later ill-health compelled Frothingham's resignation, and the church dissolved.
However, in 1581 Mary wrote that William was one of her few remaining enemies in Scotland, and should have witnessed that she was compelled to assent to her resignation.
Eventually, McGovern felt compelled to accept Senator Eagleton's resignation from the ticket.
Although he appears honestly to have accepted this judgment, the hostility of his opponents did not cease until at last ( 1806 ) he was compelled to accept a canonry at St Stephens, Vienna, which involved the resignation of his chair.

compelled and President
* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
However, the President is not compelled to act in accordance with the council's advice.
In the event, the public's discontent with the law compelled President Jacques Chirac to publicly oppose it, and his own UMP majority, who approved the law ; defying such historical revisionism, he said, " In a Republic, there is no official history.
At first Netanyahu refused, but as the incident grew in political significance, American President Bill Clinton intervened and compelled Netanyahu to turn over the antidote.
Stewart, as President of the Mesa Rifle Team, felt compelled to design a flag for competition.
Unless French voters exercise " ticket splitting ", cohabitation should not occur unless a President feels compelled to call for Assembly elections mid-term, a prospect which cannot be ruled out.
The public-opinion pressure generated by the UFC disinformation campaign compelled President Eisenhower to become involved in the private-business vs. national-government quarrel of the United Fruit Company, lest he appear to be “ soft on Communism ” in Guatemala — a serious personal imputation and great political accusation of which the American public took serious note, especially during the McCarthy Era.
The Árbenz Government originally meant to repel the invasion by arming the military-age populace, the workers ’ militia, and the Guatemalan Army ; yet, public knowledge of the secret, cash-and-carry arms-purchase compelled the President to supply arms only to the Army ; which the Guatemalan senate perceived as a political rift, between the President and the Military Establishment.
United States President Woodrow Wilson, after winning reelection with the slogan " He kept us out of war ," was nonetheless compelled to declare war on Germany and so involve the nation in World War I when the Zimmermann Telegram was discovered.
In the course of his speech he said: ' As the Governmental policy of President McKinley was developed I was compelled to differ from it at several points and gave evidence of my disagreement in the speeches delivered by me during the last three years vpon the floor of the Senate, touching the Spanish-American • war, the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and theSouth African affairs.
He was invited to serve as the President of the PCUK in 1891 but, as he described later, ' I felt compelled to decline, knowing that I could not carry out the duties as they should be carried out, having a defect of voice which would not allow me to read my own address '.
She wrote in a published questionnaire that she had been asked to run by a number of Green activists and felt compelled to consider the possibility after the U. S. debt-ceiling crisis which she called " the President ’ s astounding attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — a betrayal of the public interest ...".
There is a separation of powers between the executive ( President and Council of Ministers ), the legislative ( Parliament ) and the judiciary, in which no one branch of government has authority over another – although parliament is charged with the supervision of the Council of Ministers, which can be compelled to resign by a vote of no-confidence.

compelled and on
The dramatic construction of his stories characteristically turns on a situation in which someone is simultaneously compelled and forbidden to love.
nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
This is another of the modifications of policy on Laos that the Kennedy administration has felt compelled to make.
Through the treachery of some Lucanian exiles, he was compelled to engage under unfavourable circumstances near Padosia, on the banks of the Acheron, and was killed by the hand of one of the exiles, as he was crossing the river.
Alexios II was compelled to acknowledge Andronikos as colleague in the empire in front of the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalkè and was then quickly put to death in turn ; the killing was carried out by Tripsychos, Theodore Dadibrenos and Stephen Hagiochristophorites.
Capp followed this success with other allegorical fantasy critters, including the aboriginal and masochistic " Kigmies ," who craved abuse ( a story that began as a veiled comment on racial and religious oppression ), the dreaded " Nogoodniks " ( or bad shmoos ), and the irresistible " Bald Iggle ," a guileless creature whose sad-eyed countenance compelled involuntary truthfulness — with predictably disastrous results.
Liddell Hart, in letters to Guderian, " imposed his own fabricated version of blitzkrieg on the latter and compelled him to proclaim it as original formula ".
The object of Li's strategy was to maintain a foothold on the Chinese mainland in the hope that the United States would eventually be compelled to enter the war in China on the Nationalist side.
The prohibitive cost of maintaining the colony, France's last outpost on the continent, was another factor that compelled observers to doubt that the French would attempt to hold on to the territory.
In 1937, in debt to printing-plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld — who also published pulp magazines and operated as a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News — Wheeler-Nicholson was compelled to take Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish Detective Comics # 1.
Mass protest compelled Mubarak, the leader of the National Democratic Party, to resign on 11 February 2011, ending his fifth term in office.
A myth persists that government officials on Ellis Island compelled immigrants to take new names against their wishes.
In addition to the relatively looser constraints on character and message at lower budgets, the nature of B production lent itself to the noir style for directly economic reasons: dim lighting not only saved on electrical costs but helped cloak cheap sets ( mist and smoke also served the cause ); night shooting was often compelled by hurried production schedules ; plots with obscure motivations and intriguingly elliptical transitions were sometimes the consequence of hastily written scripts, of which there was not always enough time or money to shoot every scene.
In 1291 the Mamluk advance into Syria compelled the friars on Carmel to abandon their monastery ; but on dispersing through Western Europe they found that Western Carmelite congregations – especially in Italy – had largely abandoned the eremetic and ascetic ideal, adopting instead the conventual life and mission of the other Mendicant orders.
Premised on Charter protections and on the notion of the immutability of homosexuality, judicial rulings rapidly advanced rights, including those that compelled the Canadian government to legalize same-sex marriage.
Along with Julius von Pflug, bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, and Michael Helding, titular bishop of Sidon, he prepared the Augsburg Interim of 1548, a proposed settlement under which Protestants would accept all Catholic authority, being permitted to retain the Protestant teaching on justification but otherwise compelled to accept Catholic doctrine and practice.
" Brahmins on the banks of the Ganges received gifts from the emperor, while following a meeting with Jadrup, a Hindu ascetic, Jahangir felt compelled to comment that " association with him is a great privilege.
The loss of vultures has had a social impact on the Indian Zoroastrian Parsi community, which traditionally uses vultures to dispose of human corpses in a Tower of Silence, but are now compelled to seek alternate methods of disposal.
Biot's study, initiated by the French Academy of Sciences, was compelled by a meteorite fall of thousands of meteorites on April 26, 1803 from the skies of L ' Aigle, France.

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