As Lord Blake observed: " The true relationship between the three cannot be determined with certainty ... there can be no doubt that the affair usage damaged Disraeli and that it made its contribution, along with many other episodes, to the understandable aura of distrust which hung around his name for so many years.

The Profumo affair of 1963 permanently damaged the credibility of Macmillan's government.

The affair was a catastrophe for Droste and damaged her future marriage prospects.

His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet spy, followed by lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it, forced the resignation of Profumo and damaged the reputation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government.

In 1993, Wilson's leadership was further damaged by revelations of his affair with fellow Liberal MLA Judi Tyabji.

In 1982, her father's political career was severely damaged when it was revealed that during his affair with a former student at Santa Ana College, where he had taught political science, he had fathered two children out of wedlock.

In October 2004, a much-publicised affair with Delta Goodrem had soured and seriously damaged his standing, after newspapers alleged that he had dated Paris Hilton while with Goodrem.

After refusing to do so for some time, Adams finally released the report of the affair, resulting in a wave of passionate anti-French sentiment across the U. S. This seriously damaged the Republicans and helped the Federalists win the 1798 elections.

The Faurisson affair greatly damaged Chomsky's reputation in France, a country he didn't visit for almost thirty years following the affair and where the translation of his political writings was delayed until the 2000s.

The Labour government's popularity was severely damaged by the affair, although subsequent polls showed that it recovered its support and Labour was elected for a third term in September 2005.

His trial never proceeded, although he remained in the Tower until 1628, and the affair seriously damaged the King's reputation as a man of honour.

His wife's affair and abandonment leaves Charlie so emotionally damaged that he lets himself be abused and taken advantage of by others.

However, Green's stock was damaged by the long controversy, with even her friends and supporters considering that her handling of the affair did not come across as a coherent strategy, although one commentator at the time did praise the way she had " ridden the Brussels storm with verve and conviction.

The affair led to the disbanding of Canada's elite Canadian Airborne Regiment, greatly damaged the morale of the Canadian Forces, and damaged both the domestic and international reputation of Canadian soldiers.

He has been in the news regarding his alleged role in the 1999 CDU contributions scandal in Germany, which damaged the political legacy of former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and involves the present Federal Minister of Finance of Germany Wolfgang Schäuble as well as the Airbus affair in Canada, which was linked through allegation to former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney.

Her marriage was damaged by rumours of an affair with her producer, but the same rumours only enhanced her appeal to her audiences.

While the song accurately indicates that many unfavorable rumors damaged Grigori's reputation, there is no verifiable evidence to suggest that he had an affair with Alexandra.

The Profumo affair had seriously damaged the previous Conservative government, meaning Alec Douglas-Home's Premiership lasted only 363 days.

Soon Gamsakhurdia was arrested for an affair with Lida Gasviani, a young charming Trotskyite director of the State Publishing House, but interrogated and released by Beria who told him ironically that sexual relations with enemies of the people were permitted.

The Leningrad affair was organized and supervised by Malenkov and Beria.

Another criticism is that universities tend more to pseudo-intellectualism than intellectualism per se ; for example, to protect their positions and prestige, academicians may over-complicate problems and express them in obscure language ( e. g., the Sokal affair, a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal attempting to show that American humanities professors invoke complicated, pseudoscientific jargon to support their political positions.

Parthenius of Nicaea recorded a love affair between Odysseus and Aeolus ' daughter Polymele ; the latter was said to have ended up betrothed to her own brother Diores.

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.

In competitions, competitors are costumed as would be appropriate for a white tie affair, with full gowns for the ladies and bow tie and tail coats for the men ; though in American Smooth it is now conventional for the men to abandon the tailsuit in favor of shorter tuxedos, vests, and other creative outfits.

It was a hushed affair conducted at a registry office ; Harris had revealed she was pregnant, and the star was eager to avoid controversy.

Defoe was amazed that a man as gifted as Harley left vital state papers lying in the open, and warned that he was almost inviting an unscrupulous clerk to commit treason ; his warnings were fully justified by the William Gregg affair.

The most popularly cited models are the Duchess of Alba, with whom Goya was sometimes thought to have had an affair, and Pepita Tudó, mistress of Manuel de Godoy ; Godoy subsequently owned them.

While there are constant rumours that she has affairs with male celebrities in order to build her profile, in some cases she simply creates the rumours herself ; in The Desert Angel ( series 1 ) she confesses to Pat Cash that she started a rumour about having an affair with him.

Buddy, a traveling salesman, is having an affair with a girl on the road ; Sally is still as much in love with Ben as she was years ago ; and Ben is so self-absorbed that Phyllis feels emotionally abandoned.

Similar examples were procured of Catharine Linck in Prussia in 1717, executed in 1721 ; Swiss Anne Grandjean married and relocated with her wife to Lyons, but was exposed by a woman with whom she had had a previous affair and sentenced to time in the stocks and prison.

Moses soon discovered that the affair was known, and that Pharaoh was likely to put him to death for it ; he then fled from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula.

Then, of course, her belief that her husband is having an affair wouldn't be based on that evidence, because she did not know it was there at all ; or, if she thought that the evidence were a hoax, then surely her belief couldn't be based on that evidence.

In order to hide their affair, Dagda made the sun stand still for nine months ; therefore their son, Óengus, was conceived, gestated and born in one day.

He never referred to it himself, but Chanel spoke about the alleged affair at length to her biographer Paul Morand in 1946 ; the conversation was published thirty years later.

But it's more than that ; no mere carrot-and-stick affair ; because implicit in the game is unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil ; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent ; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions, Alpha against Omega, father against mother.

There is no evidence to suggest that they engaged in a sexual relationship until very shortly before their marriage ; Henry's love letters to Anne seem to suggest that their love affair remained unconsummated for much of their seven year courtship.

Illegally mining silver is now an offense punishable by death ; although illegal mining became a dangerous affair, the high demand for illegal mining also made it very lucrative, and so many chose to defy the government and continued to mine silver.

The remarks were distributed privately in transcript form, from shorthand taken by an attender ( Jung reportedly approved the transcript ), and later recorded in Volume 18 of his Collected Works, The Symbolic Life (" For instance, when a member of the Oxford Group comes to me in order to get treatment, I say, ' You are in the Oxford Group ; so long as you are there, you settle your affair with the Oxford Group.

He is currently enjoying a discreet affair with Mary Boleyn, a daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn who is one of his courtiers ; but the King is bored with her too.

Here serious drama and politics were blended with high and low comedy ; the plot centered on a love affair between Catiline and a daughter of Cicero as well as the historic political situation.

But her personality was such that each affair lasted only until that lover, too, had been conquered and reduced to passivity.

Garth was prepared to be helpful in what he referred to with fastidious distaste as this unfortunate Johnston affair, which would not, he said more than once, have ever come about if Mrs. Meeker had only seen fit to consult Mr. Hohlbein or him about it.

Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.

The Lions tour to Australia in 1989 was a short affair, being only 12 matches in total.

" The Lita Grey affair was soon forgotten, but Chaplin was deeply affected by it: the stress of the ordeal turned his hair white, and both his second wife and The Circus received only a passing mention in his autobiography.

Later in his " Letter to Posterity ", Petrarch wrote: " In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair – my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames.

The only source of this affair is the chronicler Liutprand of Cremona, writing some 50 years after the events of Sergius ’ pontificate.

However, she denied that she was fifteen years old when it began, saying that they met when she was sixteen and the affair only became sexual " several years later ".

His only other love affair during this period was with Olivia Shakespear, whom he had first met in 1896, and parted with one year later.

The Dreyfus affair of 1894 only strengthened his activist stance.

Cymbeline has discovered the affair and banishes Posthumus for his presumption, for Imogen is currently Cymbeline's only child and so her husband is heir to the British throne.

The artist's only child, Nicolas Hasle ( born 1960 ), was the result his affair with a Danish woman, Annelise Hasle.

Bernhardt had an affair with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph Eugène Henri Georges Lamoral de Ligne ( 1837 – 1914 ), son of Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne, with whom she had her only child, Maurice Bernhardt ( 1864 – 1928 ).

His coronation at age nine was a simple affair, attended by only a handful of noblemen and three bishops at St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester.

' He is quoted as saying " The only love affair I have ever had was with music ".

The only positive element of this affair for Thorpe was that, as soon as the news was reported that he had been declared a professional, he received offers from professional sports clubs.

— an intimate kiss between Carrie Messenger and Nicholas Beck, " silver-haired Professor of Fine Art ", who is said to be a celibate gay — a rumour which he does not do anything about because it serves as the perfect cover-up for his affair with Carrie Messenger, whom officially he only helps select fine antiques for the Messengers ' two houses.

Later, however, when Dream angrily blames Desire for the whole affair, Desire offers no defense, only asking Destruction after Morpheus storms off, " Doesn't he have a sense of humor?

It addressed the issue of Easter calculation and the proper monastic tonsure, and concerned only the part of the English Church that answered to the See of Lindisfarne – that is, it was a Northumbrian affair.

She mentions in her article that Watson only shifted his focus to child-rearing when he was fired from Johns Hopkins University due to his affair with Rosalie Rayner.

Readers new to the author will probably develop a love affair with his ability to draw you into a story ( sometimes with only a line or two ) and then, in a few words, give you something you'll never forget.

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.

" the " Regulator Guy " appeared only once in a sketch on the show, but this appearance was a ( deliberately ) cheap and poorly-done affair, which ended with Letterman interviewing the new sidekick character, Ajax, while completely ignoring Elliott ( much to his faux-chagrin ).

This was the time when seaside trips were only for the rich elite, and beach outings were very much a chic affair.