Support for his leadership was eroded even further by his refusal to sack the Minister for Air Peter Howson in order to defuse the scandal, fuelling criticism from within the party that Holt was " weak " and lacked Menzies ' ruthlessness.

Many of the accused confessed to these charges under torture, and these confessions, even though obtained under duress, caused a scandal in Paris.

The subsequent 1912 Salon des Indépendants was marked by the presentation of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, which itself caused a scandal, even amongst the Cubists.

Wilson's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo Affair, a 1963 ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and was to taint his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home, even though Home had not been involved in the scandal.

Shortly after, in October 2000 Álvarez resigned after a scandal related to presidential bribes in the Senate ( the President's party refused to support or investigate the accusations ), so the Alliance ( and even the FrePaSo ) effectively broke down.

His expulsion created even more instability in a party which was constantly embroiled in scandal and internal strife.

In 2009, the Centerburg Local School Board voted to cancel that year's graduation ceremony in response to a cheating scandal, even though only one person out of the entire 97-student graduating class was ever proven guilty of cheating.

When a scandal breaks, the discovery of an attempt to cover up is often regarded as even more reprehensible than the original deeds.

This " passive cover-up " is often justified by the motive of not wanting to embarrass the culprit or expose them to criminal prosecution or even the belief that the cover-up is justified by protecting the greater community from scandal.

" The move mimicked the decision Major League Baseball had made in hiring judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as League Commissioner the previous year to quell questions about the integrity of baseball in the wake of the 1919 World Series gambling scandal ; The New York Times even called Hays the " screen Landis ".

The emission creates a big scandal with even questions in the Dutch parliament about her nude appearance.

However, his administration was plagued by charges of corruption ; and he was forced to resign with his entire cabinet to take responsibility for the Siemens-Vickers Naval Armaments scandal even if it was never proved that he was personally involved.

He even physically assaulted a composer she was working with ; Lindenberg considered calling the police but decided Reich could not afford another scandal.

While he was prisoner, Rose, the woman he loved, died ; moreover, Rose was married to another man, so Charley cannot even express his bereavement for fear of scandal.

The scandal caused a rift in the relations of Leo and Aspar, leaving the former relying even more on the Excubitors.

Parkinson, who partnered Paul Merton on the episode, took considerable ribbing ( although the injunction prevented any reference to his major scandal ) but emerged from the programme intact: even opposing captain and satirist Ian Hislop admitted afterwards that he had come across very well.

Louis Cowan, made CBS Television president as a result of Questions fast success, was forced out of the network as the quiz scandal ramped up, even though it was NBC's and not CBS ' quiz shows bearing the brunt of the scandal – and even though CBS itself, with a little help from sponsor Colgate-Palmolive, had moved fast in cancelling the popular Dotto at almost the moment it was confirmed that that show had been rigged.

None of the people directly involved in rigging any of the quiz shows faced any penalty more severe than suspended sentences for perjury before the federal grand jury that probed the scandal, even if many hosts and producers found themselves frozen out of television for many years.

He was even implicated in both scandal and controversy when, during World War II, Scotland Yard suspected him of fifth columnist sabotage and mounted a surprise raid to seize works thought to contain coded messages to the enemy.

Both the Chaudhry brothers have been accused of some financial scandals including the Cooperative Scandal, sugar scandal and bank loan defaults, but none of them were ever proven or even pursed or trailed by government.

Sterne ’ s uncle was an ardent Whig, and urged Sterne to begin a career of political journalism which resulted in some scandal for Sterne and, eventually, a terminal falling-out between the two men.

The scandal after the publication of Bulgarian Folk Songs resulted in the sacking of the Macedonian Minister of Culture, Dimitar Dimitrov.

In mid-1987, the Bofors scandal broke his honest, corruption-free image and resulted in a major defeat for his party in the 1989 elections.

* 2009: Staff of The New York Times, " for its swift and sweeping coverage of a prostitution scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov.

The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction and incarceration of 43 people, including dozens of Nixon's top administration officials.

The Watergate scandal resulted in 69 government officials being charged and 48 being found guilty.

These were brought about in late 2003 by the Parmalat scandal which caused the parent company to collapse and resulted in the club operating in controlled administration until January 2007.

A scandal with the program arose in the 1990s in which at least 700 houses were sold for profit by real estate speculators taking the loans ; at least 19 were arrested, and the situation devastated the housing market in Brooklyn and Harlem and resulted in $ 70 million in HUD loans going into default.

Chewco Investments L. P., was a limited partnership associated with the Enron scandal, which resulted in the bankruptcy of Enron.

* In 1987 writings on the phenomenon appeared in the United Kingdom along with incidents featuring broadly similar accusations such as the Cleveland child abuse scandal ; allegations of SRA in Nottingham resulted in the " British McMartin ", advised in part by the British journalist Tim Tate's work on the subject.

The scandal resulted in the loss of draft picks and a fine of almost one million dollars, which exacerbated the club's poor on-field and off-field positions.

* 2008: The Kids for Cash scandal resulted in federal convictions and sentences of juvenile court judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan.

The contracting of the construction of the new Harbor Campus had resulted in a huge scandal.

Sargent enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter, though not without controversy and some critical reservation ; an early submission to the Paris Salon, his " Portrait of Madame X ", was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter, but it resulted in scandal instead.

Most of that land resides in adjacent Jasper county, where a Swamplands scandal in the early 1860s resulted in a county official, who was accused of embezzlement, burning down the local courthouse to cover his tracks before skipping town.

The widespread public outrage arising after this scandal came to light resulted in the Sisters of Mercy being thereafter referred to by some of their most ardent critics as the Sisters of Cruelty.

However, due to a lack of vocations and private funds-partly due to the shocking abuse scandal caused by the order's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado ( who had at one time been admired by Blessed Pope John Paul II ), which resulted in a Vatican investigation and revision-the entire course of Seminary studies will now be taken at the Legionaries ' Seminary in Rome, Italy and the building will be sold.

The Bennett scandal resulted in his excommunication and the disaffection of several others.

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

W. Mark Felt an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director, acted on conscience to provide reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with information that resulted in the Watergate scandal.

The scandal resulted Allied Irish Banks being forced to reach a settlement of € 90 million with the Revenue Commissioners in respect of Deposit Interest Retention Tax evasion in 2000 in addition to thousands of tax-evaders being prosecuted including the former Minister for Justice Pádraig Flynn.

The scandal was initially discovered by then-New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and resulted in significantly increased regulation of the industry.

" Less than a year later, in 1998, the Lewinsky scandal broke and resulted in calls for Clinton's impeachment and possible eviction from his position.

Novak broke the story in his column, which resulted in a government scandal.