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When he was pressured by the international community, notably a very vocal US ambassador to the Central African Republic, Daniel H. Simpson, to hold fair elections, assisted by the UN Electoral Assistance Unit and monitored by international observers in 1992, he only won 10 % of the vote and so he declared the elections invalid and had the Constitutional Council cancel the election.
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When Congress, pressured by the Grand Army of the Republic, passed a bill granting pensions for disabilities not caused by military service, Cleveland also vetoed that.
When he repeatedly tried to evade his regular medical check-ups, school nurse Annie Ghazikhanian recognized that something odd was going on with him and pressured him to show her the wound.
When the people pressured Saul into going against a command conveyed to him by Samuel, God told Samuel to appoint David in his stead.
( 2 ) When pressured by foreigners, neighbouring countries are not willing to help.
When news reached Heraclius of the Pope ’ s condemnation, he was already old and ill, and the news only hastened his death, declaring with his dying breath that the controversy was all due to Sergius, and that the patriarch had pressured him to give his unwilling approval to the Ecthesis.
When Regina asks Horace outright for the money, he refuses, so Leo, a bank teller, is pressured into stealing his uncle Horace's railroad bonds from the bank's safety deposit box.
When the city pressured local insurance companies to stop insuring cars used in the carpools, the boycott leaders arranged policies with Lloyd's of London.
When representatives of the southern German cities convened in Ulm on 23 – 24 March 1532 to discuss their alliance with the Schmalkaldic League, Bucer advised them to sign the Augsburg Confession, if they were being pressured to do so.
When the time came for the " New Party " to form, in 1961, Coldwell pressured Douglas to run for the leadership.
When Paris fell and the Bourbons reclaimed the throne, Ney, who had pressured Napoleon to accept his first abdication and exile, was promoted, lauded, and made a peer by the newly enthroned Louis XVIII.
When he refused to go along with the plan, Fry said, the boosters pressured the school's new president to fire him.
When the time came for the " New Party " to form, in 1961, Coldwell pressured Douglas to run for the leadership.
When a centre's winger is being attacked along the boards, the centre can take position behind the net to receive the pressured winger's pass.
When in 1634 his brother Charles was pressured into resigning his realm in his favor, he became sovereign Duke of Lorraine.
When Pilatus and Morvan pressured Farian to let them sing on the next album, Farian admitted to reporters on November 15, 1990 that they had not performed on the recordings.
When the polls showed that Navon was more popular than Labor chairman Shimon Peres, Peres was pressured to step aside and allow Navon to take over the party leadership.
When local artist Bob Cassilly ( founder of the private, non-profit City Museum ) approached the city government with a $ 200, 000 downpayment toward purchasing the building, Civic Progress pressured the city government to hurriedly demolish it, which they did, over general public objection, through a controlled implosion on February 27, 1999.
When American League president Ban Johnson got word of it, however, he pressured Mexican authorities to deport Chase.
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When Maathai responded that she could not attend as she did not believe the government would allow her to leave the country and she was in hiding, Gorbachev pressured the government of Kenya to allow her to travel freely.
When his mother died c1630, Bernardo was pressured in court by the Capuchins to re-enter the order.
When the US press reacted negatively to incidents including the sinking of two Venezuelan ships and the bombardment of the coast, the US pressured the parties to settle, and drew attention to its nearby naval fleet.
When the First World War began, he wanted to enlist but his family pressured him not to.
When pressured to either cancel the film or accept the design de Laurentiis relented and allowed filming to continue with Rambaldi's werewolf suit.
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