The accusation that he sold full forgiveness for sins not yet committed, caused great scandal ; Martin Luther considered his actions evil, and began to preach openly against him.

As the number of players decreased, standards began to slip ; that they did so precipitously is confirmed by a mid-18th century Bolognese source that complained that the instrument ’ s daily appearances in the town square had become ‘ a public scandal ’ ( see Gambassi ).

After the Watergate break-in, Martha Mitchell began contacting reporters when her husband's role in the scandal became known, for which she became known as " the Mouth of the South ".

The Whitewater controversy ( also called the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater ) was an American politics controversy that began with the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.

He went back to England, in the hope of obtaining the post of Hanoverian envoy in London ; but his wife began an affair with the Prince of Wales, creating so great a scandal that he was forced to leave the Hanoverian service.

The involvement of the UN itself in the scandal began in February 2004 after the name of Benon Sevan, executive director of the Oil-for-Food Programme, appeared on the Iraqi Oil Ministry's documents.

The missile strikes began three days after Clinton was called to testify before a grand jury during the Lewinsky scandal and his subsequent nationally televised address later that evening in which Clinton admitted having an inappropriate relationship.

In the eyes of the public however, Constantine IX ’ s preferential treatment of his mistress was a scandal, and eventually rumours began to spread that Skleraina was planning to murder both Zoe and Theodora.

As the bigamy scandal raged on, Rambova began work on costumes for Valentino's next picture, The Young Rajah.

The 86th Congress, by then in its first session, quickly saw the political opportunity the scandals offered ; in October 1959, the House Committee on Legislative Oversight, under Representative Oren Harris's chairmanship, began to hold hearings investigating the scandal.

A scandal involving Vanhanen's second cabinet began rolling in May 2008, after the leader of the Centre Party's parliamentary group Timo Kalli said publicly that he would not reveal information about his campaign finances, because such disclosure was not required.

The scandal of this affair caused Afonso to banish Inês from court, but this did not end the relationship, and the two began living together in secret.

By 1995, the label began to flood with Knight's cronies — friends and gang members fresh out of jail, as well as off-duty police officers later implicated in the Rampart scandal, working as security.

Shortly after a 2009 scandal in Portland, Oregon involving openly gay mayor Sam Adams and Beau Breedlove, who had allegedly turned 18 almost immediately before the two began a sexual relationship, Savage created a companion rule to the " campsite rule ", now known as the Tea and Sympathy rule.

Reagan's approval ratings plummeted in 1986 as a result of the scandal, and many Americans began to seriously question his judgement.

But after a number of highly publicised scandals over accounting practices, such as the Enron scandal, these firms began divestiture of their management-consulting units, to more easily comply with the tighter regulatory scrutiny that followed.

As Wilde began to court scandal in his public career, their friendship subsequently cooled.

The ensuing scandal began a series of changes within the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to improve the security of claiming prizes.

The Watergate scandal began during the 1972 presidential campaign between Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and President Richard Nixon.

* July 14, 2003: CIA leak scandal began

Although the news media blamed the scandal, the merger talks began prior to the revelation of the loses.

Three days after Twenty-One contestant, Richard Jackman, a writer from Oneonta, NY, told Stone that he too had been coached in advance of his appearance on October 3, Twenty One was canceled, and the investigation of the quiz show scandal began in earnest.

He had a 2½-year tenure as president of Hamburger SV, which began in 1995, and ended in resignation due to a financial scandal, for which he took responsibility.

Court trials began in December 2008 for six people linked to the scandal and ended in January 2009 with two of the convicts being sentenced to death and executed.

* 2003 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.

The operation failed, and because he had neither informed Colombia, Brazil, nor President Chirac of the mission, it resulted in a political scandal.

In 2010, Strickland was embroiled in a scandal at the Governor's Mansion over a work-release program for inmates involved in a cigarette smuggling operation and alcohol consumption which he had no knowledge of.

On 14 May 2002, a parliamentary committee member described the operation as " a scandal in itself " and an " expensive ... fiasco ", the lead investigator having allegedly lied about the existence of forensic evidence to win over parents and staff who had mounted a campaign on behalf of the accused.

China Times once managed a Taiwan-based baseball team, the China Times Eagles ( 時報鷹 Shíbàoyīng ), but a betting scandal dissolved the team seven years into its operation.

After World War II and the overthrow of Mussolini's fascist regime, Italy's history was dominated by the Christian Democracy ( Democrazia Cristiana, DC ) political party for 50 years, while the opposition was led by the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ); this situation prevailed until the crisis of the Soviet Union and the Tangentopoli scandal and operation Mani pulite, which led to the reform of the electoral system ( from almost perfect proportional to uninominal / multi-seat circumscriptions ) and radical restructuring of the Italian political system, including the dissolution of most traditional political parties.

In 1980, Williams, a resident of Westfield, New Jersey at the time, was convicted of bribery and conspiracy in the Abscam scandal for taking bribes in a sting operation by the FBI.

In 1926 a high-profile counterfeit scandal came to light in Hungary, when several people were arrested in the Netherlands while attempting to procure 10 million francs worth of fake French 1000-franc bills which had been produced in Hungary ; after 3 years, the state-sponsored industrial scale counterfeit operation had finally collapsed.

By the late 1930s, a newspaper campaign began bringing attention to the Bioff-Browne extortion operation creating a huge scandal in Hollywood.

Akmal was able to recover from the operation to participate in the two-match test series but Zulqarnain Haider was selected ahead of him Another reason also emerged that Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Umar Amin and Yasir Hameed were not selected for the tour due to the fact that suspicions were raised that they were involved with the spot-fixing scandal that included Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif.

The article ’ s sources use words varying from “ scandal ” to “ legally required ” to describe “ how Web sites owned by a British national operating via a Spanish travel agency can be affected by U. S. law ”, especially when the operation is as “ mysterious ” as that of the OFAC list.

A major scandal erupted in 2004 when farmer George Bacchus announced that he had evidence implicating Gajraj, then the Minister of Home Affairs, in the operation of ‘ phantom death squads ' that killed up to four hundred people.

It seems to me something of a scandal that it is even necessary to debate these issues two centuries after Voltaire defended the right of free expression for views he detested.

Alarmed by a perceived lapse in piety, they concluded that professing belief and leading a scandal free life were insufficient for full participation in the local assembly.

The latter soon stumbled over a scandal involving free travel paid by TUI and was succeeded by Sigmar Gabriel.

When the city administration of Edward J. Kelly was threatened with defeat by corruption, scandal and Kelly's liberal integrationist policies ( Kelly notably had said that African-Americans were free to live anywhere in the city ) the Cook County Democratic Party Machine responded by slating Kennelly as a reform candidate.

Proving the truth of 18th-century author Henry Fielding's quip that " love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea ," the custom of banning servants from the drawing room during tea shows the hostess's desire to encourage free conversation among her guests.

In July 2011 DEC accepted free advertising in the final edition of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World newspaper as the paper was closed in the aftermath of the News International phone hacking scandal.