When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.

When confronted with the emerging scandal, Cleveland's instructions to his campaign staff were: " Tell the truth.

When they returned home, many newspapers treated their journey as an occasion for scandal.

When Richard Nixon tried to use executive privilege as a reason for not turning over subpoenaed evidence to Congress during the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon,, that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution.

When President Bill Clinton attempted to use executive privilege regarding the Lewinsky scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v. Jones,, that the privilege also could not be used in civil suits.

When it became public that Maxwell and Braddon had been living in an " irregular " arrangement all those years, it caused a minor scandal during which all their servants gave notice.

When Soisson died, the Ambrosiano affair wasn't yet known as a scandal.

When ABB's board made the pension payment public, a huge scandal ensued and Barnevik was forced to resign as chairman of Investor, the Swedish investment company controlled by the powerful Wallenberg family, and to hand back a large chunk of his pension to ABB.

When an unnamed president of the United States is caught in a closed room making advances on an underage " Firefly Girl " ( the fictional equivalent of a Girl Scout ) less than two weeks before re-election, Conrad Brean ( De Niro ), a top notch spin-doctor, is brought in to try to take the public attention away from the scandal.

When Schulberg learned of this arrangement, he fired Jacobson for potentially getting " his big star " into a scandal.

" When the second part of his Gloria caused a scandal, Poulenc said, " I was thinking when I composed it of these frescoes by Gozzoli with angels sticking out their tongues, and of those grave benedictines I saw once playing football.

When Harry has to go away on a business trip, Tacey agrees to take the baby and sleep over each night at the home of their friends, fellow lawyer Bill Philby ( John Russell ) and his wife Edna, just to squelch any possibility of scandal in their suburban community of Hummingbird Hill.

When Tripp discovered in January 1998 that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying a relationship with Clinton, she delivered the tapes to Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel who was investigating Clinton on other matters, including the Whitewater scandal, the White House FBI files controversy, and the White House travel office controversy.

When the scandal forced Clarke to leave London, she took a tenancy of Loughton Lodge, Loughton, Essex.

When the legal case collapsed, the scandal led to a major shake-up in chancellor Konrad Adenauer's cabinet and Strauß had to stand down.

When Harcourt resigned as a result of the Bingogate scandal, Clark stood for and won the leadership of the BC NDP and therefore became BC's 31st Premier.

When a sex scandal forced Brownlee from office in 1934, Reid was the caucus ' unanimous choice to succeed him as Premier.

When the court sentenced three of Bock's foreign companions the results were a public scandal and the withdrawal of the sponsor of the excavation, the major construction and roadworks company Lemminkäinen Group.

When Jean Chrétien stepped down as Prime Minister, to be succeeded by Paul Martin, the Bloc's fortunes improved markedly, particularly after the sponsorship scandal erupted.

When this information was leaked to the public in Britain and France, their governments were mired in scandal and the British Foreign Secretary, Samuel Hoare, was forced to resign.

When the energy crisis settled down, Davis's administration was hit with a fund-raising scandal.

When Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 because of a scandal separate from his Chief Justice bid, Nixon nominated Clement Haynsworth, a Southern jurist.

When the Abu Ghraib military prisoner torture and abuse scandal was publicized in March of 2004, many observers were immediately struck by its many similarities to the Stanford Prison experiment.

When the PCC dissolved prior to the 1959 season following a pay-for-play scandal in 1958, there was no official agreement in force.

When A bubble breaks, there's nothing.

When the ball crosses the plate the runner breaks for second base, and is essentially stealing the base on the middle infielders who have not covered second base.

When the sperm breaks through the hard outer shell of the egg a new cell embryo is formed, which, in humans, grows to full size in 9 months.

When the Avengers and the New Avengers are fighting Skadi, the Serpent ends up joining the battle and breaks Captain America's shield with his bare hands.

When " Light breaks where no sun shines " appeared in The Listener in 1934, it caught the attention of three senior figures in literary London, T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Grigson and Stephen Spender.

When blood glucose levels fall below a certain level, the body begins to use stored sugar as an energy source through glycogenolysis, which breaks down the glycogen stored in the liver and muscles into glucose, which can then be utilized as an energy source.

When she comes to the battlefield she chants a poem, and immediately the battle breaks and the Fomorians are driven into the sea.

When a heavy atom undergoes nuclear fission it breaks into two or more fission fragments.

When an electric current is passed through the coil it generates a magnetic field that activates the armature, and the consequent movement of the movable contact ( s ) either makes or breaks ( depending upon construction ) a connection with a fixed contact.

When morning breaks, Kambei orders his forces to allow the remaining bandits in.

When Henry learned how she had been treated, he breaks with his father and tells Catherine he still wants to marry her despite his father's disapproval.

When Judson advances on Warden with the knife, Warden breaks a beer bottle in two and uses the jagged edge as a weapon.

When basalt erupts underwater or flows into the sea, contact with the water quenches the surface and the lava forms a distinctive pillow shape, through which the hot lava breaks to form another pillow.

When a shark dies, the decomposing skeleton breaks up, scattering the apatite prisms.

* When the Antarctic ozone hole breaks up, the ozone-depleted air drifts out into nearby areas.

When cooked or stored at high temperatures, aspartame breaks down into its constituent amino acids.

When World War I breaks out, Chips, who had retired the year before at age 65, agrees to come out of retirement to fill in for the various masters who have entered military service.

* When the Frankenstein Monster breaks free of his bonds on the operating table in the climactic chase / fight scene, one of his neck electrodes clearly pulls off of his neck.

When the chicks and the female are too big to fit in the nest, the mother breaks out, then both parents feed the chicks.

When a river breaks its banks and floods, it leaves behind layers of rock and mud.

* When a mutiny breaks out amongst the troops who are fortifying Piraeus ( the harbour for Athens ), the Council sends Theramenes to quell it.

When he tries to bar the eponymous hero of the opera Siegfried from awakening Brünnhilde from her magic sleep, Siegfried breaks the spear in two and Wotan flees.

When she refuses, he uses force: he breaks her concentration and terrifies her by throwing her out of the airplane, catching her with the airplane, and he uses this to kiss her.

When the distance between the two electrodes is reduced, the intensity of the electric field in the volume between the electrodes becomes greater than the strength of the dielectric ( at least in some point ( s )), which breaks, allowing current to flow between the two electrodes.

When Sam invites her on a date to a baseball game, Tess inadvertently breaks the " men only " atmosphere of the press box, and is initially confused and unfamiliar with the rules of the sport, before enjoying herself and befriending other spectators.