As a Jeffersonian and Jacksonian, Johnson refused to toe any party line throughout his political career – though he primarily ran as a Democrat, with the exception of his vice-presidency.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

They had an argument over a party Eugene held, which Gauss refused to pay for.

In 2001, the party experienced a further crisis as some Green Members of Parliament refused to back the government's plan of sending military personnel to help with the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

Madison faced formidable obstacles – a divided cabinet, a factious party, a recalcitrant Congress, obstructionist governors, and incompetent generals, together with militia who refused to fight outside their states.

The remaining members of the BCP refused to accept their new status as the opposition party and ceased attending sessions.

She said that she refused to break promises made by the party during the election.

Exit polls showed the Left had a unique appeal to non-voters: 390, 000 Germans who refused to support any party in 2002 returned to the ballot box to vote for the Left Party.

On 16 September, the president nominated Yaovi Agboyibor of the Action Committee for Renewal ( CAR ) prime minister, snubbing the major opposition party Union of the Forces of Change ( UFC ) which in reaction refused to join the government.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

The incumbent, Martti Ahtisaari, refused to run in party preliminaries and thus announced that he would not run for a second term.

The major opposition party, Birlik, had been refused registration in time for the election.

Menzies proposed an all party unity government to break the impasse, but the Labor Party under John Curtin refused to join.

Pressured by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Khan refused to hand over the powers to the majority party, Awami League and situation in East-Pakistan ran out of government control, prompting Khan to authorized military operations, like Operation Searchlight, in the entire provisional state.

But Cyril refused to compromise and when he opened his attack ( 437 ) upon Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore, John sided with them and Theodoret assumed the defense of the Antiochian party ( c. 439 ).

Following the definite end of the Cold War, Honecker refused all but cosmetic changes and was ousted by the party in late 1989 and removed from power.

The party refused to renominate his sitting Vice-President, Richard Mentor Johnson.

He was, later events would prove, a Republican, but in 1948 he flatly refused the nomination of any political party.

Dewey was repeatedly urged by the right wing of his party to engage in red-baiting, but he refused.

The Rutte cabinet's parliamentary majority has been provided by Geert Wilders ' Party for Freedom ( PVV ), but this majority became unstable when Wilders ' party refused to support austerity measures in connection with the Euro crisis.

The party refused an electoral deal with the Socialists for the June legislative election.

This resulted in deadlock in Queensland ; the unicameral Queensland legislature twice voted against Colston, and the party refused to submit any alternative candidates.

Ben-Gurion refused to accept the compromise and viewed it as a divisive play within the Mapai party.

Later, for example, the Cuban association was refused because its statutes claimed to respect the leading role of the communist party in Cuba.

He also refused to consider SPD as a party of the coalition until he felt sure that they shared his anti-Communist position.

The trouble with them was that they almost never worked, and in fact an agreement `` in principle '' historically turned out to be a sure sign that neither party really wanted the quarrel settled.

The party gained ground in the 1923 general election but ominously made most of its gains from Conservatives whilst losing ground to Labour – a sign of the party's direction for many years to come.

Of the Maritime provinces, only Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were initially party to the BNA Act, Prince Edward Island's reluctance, combined with a booming agricultural and fishing export economy having led to that colony opting not to sign on.

The United States, for example, is a party to the CCW but did not sign protocol III.

Ironically, however, it is sometimes easier to get a receiving party to sign a simple agreement that is shorter, less complex and does not contain safety provisions protecting the receiver.

The Treasury Commission ceased to meet late in the 18th century but has survived, albeit with very different functions: the First Lord of the Treasury is now the Prime Minister, the Second Lord is the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( and actually in charge of the Treasury ), and the Junior Lords are government Whips maintaining party discipline in the House of Commons ; they no longer have any duties related to the Treasury, though when subordinate legislation requires the consent of the Treasury it is still two of the Junior Lords who sign on its behalf.

Presbyterian and Reformed Christians believe that baptism, whether of infants or adults, is a " sign and seal of the covenant of grace ," and that baptism admits the party baptized into the visible church.

In 1911, Taft responded with a vigorous stumping tour that allowed him to sign up most of the party leaders long before Roosevelt announced.

Alternatively, they may require each party receiving the business plan to sign a contract accepting special clauses and conditions.

Through his day job, Duke's entrepreneurial side came out: when a customer would ask him to make a sign for a dance or party, he would ask them if they had musical entertainment ; if not, Ellington would ask if he could play for them.

Video conferencing technologies permit signed conversations as well as permitting a sign language – English interpreter to voice and sign conversations between a hearing impaired person and that person's hearing party, negating the use of a TTY device or computer keyboard.

A Roman Catholic or Anglican of the Anglo-Catholic party would find its elements familiar, in particular the use of the sign of the cross, kneeling for prayer and the Eucharistic Prayer, bowing to the processional crucifix, kissing the altar, incense ( among some ), chanting, and vestments.

Every New Year's Eve, when the two-digit year designation in the Match Game sign was updated, there was a New Year's party with the cast and studio audience.

Another sign came after the failure of Meech Lake, when Bouchard and several other Tories broke with the party to form the Bloc Québécois, a pro-sovereigntist ( i. e. independentist ) party.

Although the Red Army, commanded by Trotsky, crossed the ice over the frozen Baltic Sea to quickly crush the rebellion, this sign of growing discontent forced the party to foster a broad alliance of the working class and peasantry ( 80 % of the population ), despite left factions of the party which favored a regime solely representative of the interests of the revolutionary proletariat.

They had been led to expect to meet the main party on the trail but after going as far as Laramie without a sign of them they went south and wintered at Pueblo, Colorado where they were later joined by the Mormon Battalion sick detachments.

In contrast, Kim Jong-il demanded absolute obedience and agreement from his ministers and party officials with no advice or compromise, and he viewed any slight deviation from his thinking as a sign of disloyalty.

That change was a sign of dissension within the party, and compensated Nano for giving up his ambitions for the presidency.

After one party, George Burns phoned a record executive and persuaded him to sign Sherman to a contract.

Members of Raffles ' party surveyed the island and proceeded to request the presence of the sultan, or whoever at the time had supreme nominal power, to sign a formal treaty, while Major Farquhar was ordered to do the same in Rhio.

A tribute ( from Latin tributum, contribution ) is wealth, often in kind, that one party gives to another as a sign of respect or, as was often the case in historical contexts, of submission or allegiance.

Pierce insisted that Kember sign an agreement stating that the two of them had equal rights to Spacemen 3, to mutually protect them by preventing either party potentially claiming ownership of the Spacemen 3 name should the other quit.