When an MP Widdecombe was known for her strong socially conservative views, opposing the legality of abortion and supporting the re-introduction of the death penalty.

When faced with the question of the legality of her election, Enochs reportedly dared anyone present to challenge her in court.

When Shi ' a marjas give fatwas, they sometimes are not sure about the legality of some issues.

When the legality of the born secret was directly challenged in a freedom of the press case in 1979 ( United States v. The Progressive ) where a magazine attempted to publish an account of the so-called " secret of the hydrogen bomb " ( the Teller-Ulam design ) which was apparently created without recourse to classified information, many analysts predicted that the Supreme Court would, if it heard the case, reject the " born secret " clause as being an unconstitutional restriction of speech.

When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God ( in a book of the same name ), distinct from the material Earthly City.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

When the Council of Trent listed the books included in the canon, it qualified the books as being " entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition ".

When Orthodox theologians use the term " deuterocanonical ," it is important to note that the meaning is not identical to the Roman Catholic usage.

When a union of the evangelicals in upper and lower Germany was contemplated as a means of improved defense against the retaliatory measures of the Roman Catholic Church, George had a meeting with Elector John of Saxony at Schleitz in 1529, where they agreed on certain articles of faith and confession to be drawn up by Luther ; the commission was executed in the seventeen articles of Schwabach on the basis of the fifteen theses of the Marburg Colloquy.

When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.

When Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto wrote a letter to the city council inviting Geneva to return to the Catholic faith, the council searched for an ecclesiastical authority to respond to him.

When the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese Buddhist organisation, noticed the similarity between this form of Guanyin and the Virgin Mary, the organisation commissioned a portrait of Guanyin and a baby that resembles the typical Roman Catholic Madonna and Child painting.

When the property of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin was secularized during the Protestant Reformation in 1534, their secular reign including the Kolberg area became intermediately ruled by a Lutheran titular bishop, before it was turned into a Sekundogenitur of the House of Pomerania.

When Paul the Deacon wrote the Historia between 787 and 796 he was a Catholic monk and devoted Christian.

When rumours reached the court that they were also planning to impeach the Queen for alleged involvement in Catholic plots Charles decided to arrest them for treason.

The name “ Saints ” is an allusion to November 1 being All Saints Day in the Catholic faith, New Orleans ' large Catholic population, and the spiritual When the Saints Go Marching In, which is strongly associated with New Orleans.

The team was named for the great jazz song most identified with New Orleans – " When the Saints Go Marching In ", and it was no coincidence that the franchise's official birth was announced on November 1, which is the Catholic All Saints ' Day.

When Frederick persisted, Boniface laid excommunication on him, and an interdict upon the island of Sicily in 1296 that denied Catholic priests the right to conduct certain services there.

St Stephen I's feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is celebrated on 2 August When in 1839 the new feast of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori was assigned to 2 August, Saint Stephen I was mentioned only as a commemoration within the Mass of Saint Alphonsus.

When it refused the national army attacked in a brief civil war between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons.

When Edward VI became ill in 1553, his advisers looked to the possible imminent accession of the Catholic Lady Mary, and feared that she would overturn all the reforms made during Edward's reign.

When the Roman Catholic Church protested, she responded vehemently, “ I can't understand all the tumult-five years after Auschwitz .”

When a copy of his paradigm shifting " The Obedience of a Christian Man " fell into the hands of Henry VIII, the king found the rationale to break the Church in England from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.

When it became clear that Pope Clement VII would not annul the marriage, the breaking of the power of the Catholic Church in England began.

When he asked an adviser why he was losing ground in the polls compared to his earlier performance, the adviser explained " no one knew you were a Catholic then.

When he was six years old, Quinn attended a Catholic church ( even thinking he wanted to become a priest ).

When inserted into the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1738, his feast day was assigned to 24 November.

When her father tried to get Anne to baptise her youngest daughter into the Catholic faith, Anne burst into tears.

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

When the new National Convention held its first meeting, David was sitting with his friends Jean-Paul Marat and Robespierre.

When the first Nootka Convention ended the crisis in 1790, Vancouver was given command of Discovery to take possession of Nootka Sound and to survey the coasts.

When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention ( 1883 ) and the Berne Convention ( 1886 ) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

When the Constitutional Convention convened in May 1787, the 12 state delegations in attendance ( Rhode Island was absent ) brought with them an accumulated experience over a diverse set of institutional arrangements between legislative and executive branches from within their respective state governments.

When Pretorius conducted the negotiations which led to the signing of the Sand River Convention he did so without consulting the volksraad, and Potgieter's party accused him of usurping power and aiming at domination over the whole country.

When the Continental Congress had adopted Adams's radical May 15 preamble, Maryland's delegates walked out and sent to the Maryland Convention for instructions.

When the Whig National Convention nominated Harrison and Tyler, the Anti-Masonic Party did not make an alternate nomination and vanished.

When a Worldcon is held outside of North America, a North American Science Fiction Convention or NASFiC may be held within North America that same year.

When the Montagnards gained control of the Convention, they wrote their own, the French Constitution of 1793.

When Fairport Convention reformed in 1985 after a six-year absence, Mattacks was recruited as drummer.

When the Republicans in 1964 gave Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Taft's successor as the conservative leader, their presidential nomination, Dewey declined to even attend the GOP Convention in San Francisco ; it was the first Republican Convention he had missed since 1936.

When Seldon first visited Trantor to deliver his speech at the Decennial Convention, fashion in the sector called for bold, bright colors and wearing hats without chinstraps.

When the formation of the county was authorized by the Constitutional Convention of 1907, the county was so named because it was wholly included within the limits of the Texas Cession of 1850, whereby the ownership of the area was passed from the State of Texas to the United States Government.

When Georgia seceded from the United States, George Walker Crawford, a native son of Columbia County, presided over the Secession Convention.

When all was said and done, he received no votes for either office at the 1944 Republican Convention.

When the allies retreated, they left behind most of their wounded and the French respected the agreement, a precursor of the Geneva Convention.

When the Ohio Women's Rights Convention came to Akron in 1851, Sojourner Truth extemporaneously delivered her speech named Ain't I A Woman ?, at the Universalist Old Stone Church.

When summoned to lay down his arms and return to the Convention, he wrote back, pointing out that he was not, in fact, in arms, that there were threats against his life in Edinburgh, and that his wife was about to give birth, and requested that the summons be either revoked or delayed.

When the refusal of the Convention to make such a hasty decision was delivered to the National Guard, Hanriot, it leader, replied: Tell your fucking president that he and his Assembly are fucked, and that if within one hour he doesn ’ t deliver to me the Twenty-two, I ’ m going to blast it!

When the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris was created by the National Convention on 10 March 1793, he was appointed its public prosecutor, an office that he filled until 28 July 1794.