Scandal Sentence Examples

The actor laid low for a few months after the scandal and subsequent investigation.

A beggar among the Parsees is unknown, and would be a scandal to the society.

Yes, some may say they're a bit scandalous, but a little bit of scandal is good sometimes, right?

Tackling the scandal of rough sleeping was an early government priority.

His prestige as a minister, already injured by these two blows, suffered further during the autumn and winter from the cattledriving agitation in Ireland, which he at first feebly criticized and finally strongly denounced, but which his refusal to utilize the Crimes Act made him powerless to stop by the processes of the "ordinary law"; and the scandal arising out of the theft of the Dublin crown jewels in the autumn of 1907 was a further blot on the Irish administration.

George Sand not only forgave the elopement and hushed up the scandal by a private marriage, but she settled the young couple in Paris and made over to them nearly one-half of her available property.

His immoralities, like his acts of persecution, were exaggerated by his opponents; but his private life was undoubtedly a scandal to religion, and has only the excuse that it was not worse than that of most of his order at the time.

To these we may add the gifted but unfortunate Sigismund Czak6, Lewis Dobsa, Joseph Szigeti, Ignatius Nagy, Joseph Szenvey (a translator from Schiller), Joseph Gaal, Charles Hugo, Lawrence Toth (the Magyarizer of the School for Scandal), Emeric Vahot, Alois Degre (equally famous as a novelist), Stephen Toldy and Lewis Doczi, author of the popular prize drama Csok (The Kiss).

At the same time her extravagance in dress, jewelry and amusements (including the gardens and theatricals at Trianon, of the cost of which such exaggerated reports were spread about) and her presence at horse-races and masked balls in Paris without the king, gave rise to great scandal, which was seized upon by her enemies, among whom were Mesdames, the count of Provence, and the duke of Orleans and the Palais Royal clique.

A philosopher," as Gibbon long ago pointed out, _ who asks from what articles of faith above and against reason the early Reformers enfranchised their followers of P will be surprised at their timidity rather than scandal Y ized by their freedom.

The Serbian court, instead of being a centre of perpetual scandal and misrule, resumed its true position as a focus of national aspirations, and this change was not lost upon the Yugosla y s of " the other side."

The Samaritans, who otherwise shared the scruples of the Jews about the utterance of the name, seem to have used it in judicial oaths to the scandal of the rabbis.4 The early Christian scholars, who inquired what was the true name of the God of the Old Testament, had therefore no great difficulty in getting the information they sought.

Wollner, whom Frederick the Great had described as a "treacherous and intriguing priest," had started life as a poor tutor in the family of General von Itzenplitz, a noble of the mark of Brandenburg, had, after the general's death and to the scandal of king and nobility, married the general's daughter, and with his mother-in-law's assistance settled down on a small estate.

To his close intimacy with the princess a guilty character was commonly assigned by contemporary opinion, and their relations formed the subject of numerous popular lampoons, but the scandal was never founded on anything but conjecture and the malice of faction.

The queen's conduct towards Lady Flora was kind and sisterly from the beginning to the end of this painful business; but the scandal was made public through some indignant letters which the marchioness of Hastings addressed to Lord Melbourne praying for the punishment of her daughter's traducers, and the general opinion was that Lady Flora had been grossly treated at the instigation of some private court enemies.

In a scandal that is still reverberating more than 30 years later, 19 of the 20 stories were wiped, apparently by accident.

I have never believed that he could have been involved in the rogue cop scandal.

Who can doubt that the scandal of loans for peerages and the NHS crisis have sapped public confidence in Labor?

However, the real scandal of fuel poverty is the impact on the health of individuals.

One such important issue relates to the scandal of homelessness in Wales.

Liberty mutual does just identify yourself scandal that splashes.

He was causing a stir among the people as he exposed the sex scandal in Herod 's private life.

In October 1996 he lambasted Belgium 's civic institutions for failing to protect the country 's children in the wake of a pedophile scandal.

The 1983 Penguin edition contains an ` afterword ' dealing with the Geoffrey Prime spy scandal at GCHQ.

It is their responsibility to present a stage-managed event that is free from scandal.

As with other famous faces, a celebrity scandal has been his downfall.

How could the Reverend Martin marry a prostitute without creating a world-class scandal?

The flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal.

Over the members of these orders their superiors have jurisdiction and not the bishop. Otherwise if they live out of their monastery, or even within that enclosure so notoriously offend as to cause scandal.

She nursed him assiduously during an illness he had in 1765, and from that period till her death in 1776 they lived in the same house without any scandal.

In order to dominate the Sacred College more completely he created twelve new cardinals, among them his own son Cesare, then only eighteen years old, and Alessandro Farnese, the brother of Giulia Bella, one of the pope's mistresses, creations which caused much scandal.

He immediately rode over to establish order, and his manner and violence were so improper that Caulaincourt had the greatest difficulty in concealing the scandal.

Maladministration and peculation of public moneys go hand in hand, without any vigorous measures being adopted to put a stop to the scandal.

She soon tired of him, returned to Paris and gratified her whims in ways that caused some scandal.

King Henry IV., however, did not take advantage of the scandal.

Several of the earlier events of his life, especially his marriage with the princess Louise of Orleans, and the duel that the comte d'Artois provoked by raising the veil of the princess at a masked ball, caused much scandal.

This, on becoming known, gave rise in1872-1873to a great congressional scandal.

At Frederick's court ladies were seldom seen, a circumstance that gave occasion to much scandal for which there seems to have been no foundation.

The question of her marriage was all important, and her chances were not improved by the scandal of Chastelard, whether he acted as an emissary of the Huguenots, sent to smirch her character, or merely played the fatuous fool in his own conceit.

It was at this interesting stage of his own religious career that he felt himself compelled to stand forth in opposition to what he believed to be a great religious scandal, and almost unconsciously to become a Reformer.

In 1698 he obtained admission as a member of the Baptist Church, and used to preach at Wapping; but in 1701, as the result of a financial scandal, he was formally expelled from the sect.

Anxious to retain so promising an adherent, and probably desirous at the same time to avoid public scandal, the chiefs of the community offered him a yearly pension of r000 florins if he would outwardly conform and appear now and then in the synagogue.

She was called " The Swedish Sappho," and scandal has been needlessly busy in giving point to the allusion.

Lighted candles certainly continued to decorate the holy table in Queen Elizabeth's chapel, to the scandal of Protestant zealots.

Every piece of scandal which could be raked together respecting Scaliger or his family is to be found there.

Under pressure from the king, who was himself present in Vienne, the pope determined that, as the order gave occasion for scandal but could not be condemned as heretical by a judicial sentence (de jure), it should be abolished per modum provisionis seu ordinationis apostolicae; in other words, by an administrative ruling based on considerations of the general welfare.

A few years after the establishment of the "Abode of Love," a peculiarly gross scandal, in which Prince and one of his female followers were involved, led to the secession of some of his most faithful friends, who were unable any longer to endure what they regarded as the amazing mixture of blasphemy and immorality offered for their acceptance.

The publicity given to this event renewed the scandal, and in November an attempt to "tar and feather" Mr Pigott resulted in two men being sent to prison.

The deleted sentences usually relate to eminent persons; they sometimes repeat scandal, sometimes give the author's own opinion.

This, like the scandal concerning Margaret and Suffolk, is baseless; the tradition, however, continued and found expression in the Mirror for Magistrates and in Drayton's Heroical Epistles, as well as in Shakespeare's Henry VI.

Tausen found a diligent fellow-worker in Jurgen Viberg, better known as Sadolin, whose sister, Dorothea, he married, to the great scandal of the Catholics.

A great many, fearing a scandal, now opposed an investigation which all had previously favoured.

The later years of his life were darkened by a scandal which Beecher's personal, political and theological enemies used for a time effectively to shadow a reputation previously above reproach, he being charged by Theodore Tilton, whom he had befriended, with having had improper relations with his (Tilton's) wife.

The unspeakable vices of Mecca are a scandal to all Islam, and a constant source of wonder to pious pilgrims.8 The slave trade has connexions with the pilgrimage which are not thoroughly clear; but under cover of the pilgrimage a great deal of importation and exportation of slaves goes on.

His relations with women gave opportunity for criticism though not open scandal; but the action brought against him in 1836 by Mr George Chapple Norton in regard to the famous Mrs Caroline Norton was deservedly unsuccessful.

In the same century at Rome and at Constantinople we hear of "penitentiaries," that is priests appointed to act for the bishop in hearing the confession of sins, and deciding whether public discipline was necessary and, if it was, on its duration; in other words they prepared the penitents for solemn reconciliation by the bishop. A scandal at Constantinople in 391 led to the suppression in that city not only of the office of penitentiary, but practically of public exomologesis also, and that seemingly in Eastern Christendom generally, so that the individual was left to assess his own penance, and to present himself for communion at his own discretion.

Persecution having ceased, the question of apostasy had lost its chief significance, and as church life became public and influential the evils of scandal were intensified.

A book called The Priest in Absolution was compiled, and at first privately circulated among the clergy; but in 1877 a copy was produced in parliament, and gave rise to much scandal and heated debate, especially in the House of Lords and in the newspapers.

Other burning questions were the condition of Ireland, the scandal of the established church there, the misery of the poor in England.

The prince indeed was soon released and solemnly pardoned; but, meanwhile, Napoleon had seized the opportunity afforded by the effect of this public scandal in lowering the prestige of the royal family to pour his troops into Spain, under pretext of reinforcing J unots corps in Portugal.

The queens marriage was miserable; and she consoled herself in a way which at once made her court the scandal of Europe, and upset the French kings plans by providing the throne of Spain with healthy heirs of genuine Spanish blood.

Attempts were even made to ascribe financial motives to Mr Chamberlain's actions, and the political atmosphere was thick with suspicion and scandal.

This traffic was carried on through Nupe "to the great damage," says Barth, "of the commerce and the most unqualified scandal of the Arabs, who think that the English, if they would, could easily prevent it."

In his eagerness to restore the simplicity of the primitive church he even assailed Mariolatry, intercession of saints, relics and perhaps infant baptism, to the scandal even of the iconoclast bishops themselves.

But Hamilton faced the necessity of revealing the true state of things with conspicuous courage, and the scandal only reacted on his accusers.

The anonymous author of the letter claimed that the alleged abuses at Eurostat paled into insignificance by comparison with this latest scandal.

She described it has a scandal of financial duplicity and secrecy.

His cautionary approach was powerfully vindicated by the scandal of the 1976 ' swine flu ' epidemic in the USA 3.

So, what with the recent hoo-ha about ballet performed to a recorded soundtrack, is this another scandal?

Nowadays, any sexual impropriety or any association with scandal usually leads to the resignation of the minister involved.

His social adventures became somewhat infamous and scandal followed scandal.

More than 100 MPs have called for an independent inquiry into the scandal.

The final report into the scandal alleges that a total of $ 1.8 billion was paid in illegal kickbacks to Saddam's government.

The scandal of malnourished older people in hospital Four out of 10 older people admitted to hospital are malnourished older people in hospital Four out of 10 older people admitted to hospital are malnourished on arrival.

J. M. Synge's comedy playboy OF THE WESTERN WORLD caused a scandal when it was first performed in 1907.

He was causing a stir among the people as he exposed the sex scandal in Herod's private life.

The fact that both Solbes and Schreyer have failed over four years to uncover the scandal is apparently neither here nor there.

The publication of these results in the media provoked a national scandal.

First there was the match-fixing scandal among Italian football clubs, which resulted in Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina being relegated.

Like precipice bonds and with-profits policies before them, target funds may be a mis-selling scandal in the making.

In October 1996 he lambasted Belgium's civic institutions for failing to protect the country's children in the wake of a pedophile scandal.

They also presided over the pensions mis-selling scandal, at a cost of £ 3 billion.

For three distinct the marsh scandal been turned into.

The loans for peerages scandal has rocked Tony Blair who was unable to walk unaided last week.

Mr Galloway was appearing before a US Senate sub-committee to face questioning over his alleged involvement in the long-running UN oil-for-food program scandal.

The last time Italy won the world cup was in the backdrop of a major corruption scandal in Italian football.

Any city or county council staff wanting to post bribery scandal information here are very very welcome.

It was during the scandal of the Birmingham Six that I decided I wanted to do something tangible.

Facing prosecution, with his name tarnished by the scandal, he was forced to resign.

The constant temptation to cheat by using dangerous performance enhancing drugs is also a scandal.

But it has so far failed to address the scandal of exclusions affecting tens of thousands of children a year.

After the scandal of the needlessly high casualty toll of the Crimean War (1854-56 ), an assumption had taken firm hold.

At the end of July the trial of the persons implicated in the Banca Romana scandal revealed the fact that among the documents abstracted by Giolitti from the papers of the bank manager, Tanlongo, were several bearing upon Crispis political and private life.

He continued for about sixteen years to disseminate his views by writing and teaching, without being directly interfered with by either his civil or ecclesiastical superiors, greatly to the scandal of the multitude and of the zealots, in whose eyes Berengar was 4 ` ille apostolus Satanae," and the academy of Tours the " Babylon nostri temporis."

The disorganization of the Curia was appalling, the sale of offices became a veritable scandal, the least opposition to the Borgia was punished with death, and even in that corrupt age the state of things shocked public opinion.

None of these aims were attained; for the trial, which turned on the evidence of the police spy Nastic (already chief witness in the doubtful Cettinje bomb trial of 1908) degenerated into a public scandal, owing to the conduct of the judges and public prosecutor, and rallied Croat public opinion in defence of the S3 Serb victims. Serbo-Croat solidarity became still more apparent when the Austrian historian Dr. Friedjung, in the Neue Freie Presse of March 25 1909, openly charged the leaders of the Serbo-Croat coalition with being in the pay of Serbia.

The favour shown to Bothwell had not yet given occasion for scandal, though his character as an adventurous libertine was as notable as his reputation for military hardihood; but as the summer advanced his insolence increased with his influence at court and the general aversion of his rivals.

It may therefore be said that there is nothing except unsubstantiated scandal to contradict the conclusion, which various evidence 1 This plan applied to the south-western as well as to the northwestern territory, and was notable for a provision that slavery should not exist therein after 1800.

The UK 's tabloid press has had a field day on the growing scandal.

Set against the 1960s Thalidomide drug scandal, this is a love story with show tunes, love songs and monster baby Tangos.

Without doubt, Humala and close associates have proven a veritable goldmine of scandal.

Wonderful to relate, they had no slander nor scandal to report of this house, whose annual value they returned at £ 60.

Some people were skeptical about the political scandal, so they considered it to be a conspiracy.

The new information released on the political scandal would debilitate his chances of being re-elected.

Think twice about naming your child after political figures or celebrities who are still alive-after all, you never know what scandal is likely to pop up next.

Many celebs have run into this sort of scandal over the years, but the most shocking ones come from celebrities who are otherwise squeaky clean.

The following stars have found themselves in the middle of a scandal when they were featured in sex tapes that were released to the public.

Of course, Colin Farrell has experienced as much scandal as he has success.

Racy photographs of Diana DeGarmo American Idol top-20 finalist Antonella Barba have been circulating on the Internet, creating the first scandal of this season's show.

Conner was the center of a scandal in 2006 because of her wild and partying lifestyle while reigning as Miss USA.

Kim Kardashian, who made headlines for her sex tape scandal, is going the scantily clad route - posing for Playboy.

Perhaps the most famous of the Kardashian clan is Kim - who gained fame via her friendship with heiress Paris Hilton and for her sex tape scandal.

Many tabloids are referring to Angelina Jolie's adoption as a scandal, as though she somehow circumvented Ethiopian adoption laws.

Whether they admit it or not, everyone loves a celebrity scandal.

No matter what type of celebrity scandal, it's difficult to keep up.

These days, it seems as though celebs just can't keep themselves scandal free.

This celebrity scandal is still unfolding.

The High School Musical sweetheart surprised everyone with her nude photo scandal.

In order to make the scandal go away as soon as possible, Vanessa owned up to the images and apologized for her behavior.

While a celebrity death isn't a scandal on its own, the speculation and rumors that followed this tragedy were certainly scandalous in nature.

Jackson spent most of his life embroiled in one scandal after another, and in death the singer is still shrouded in mysterious circumstances and unusual situations.

As long as there are celebrities out there, celebrity scandal will surely follow them around.

The pressure from the scandal got to be so much, he issued a public apology and took a leave of absence from professional golf.

This "scandal" comes just a week before the second part of season three of The Hills is to begin, so is this a case of a perfectly-timed-scandal-for-publicity?

This is the second time pictures of Miley created a "scandal" (if you can call it that) for the pint-sized multi-millionaire.

It is true, the bigger the star, the bigger the scandal.

There are many ways to mold a celebrity these days and for Kim Kardashian, it was having a famous father -- and an infamous sex scandal -- that gave her starlet status.

The pictures caused quite a scandal initially, with people wondering how Disney, a company that markets primarily to children, would react.

The case became quite a scandal as details emerged.

She was also the subject of a sex tape scandal in 2007, which led to a modeling gig with Playboy magazine, where she posed for a ten-page spread and cover shot.

At about the same time as the relationship was being revealed, Vanessa Hudgens found herself embroiled in a photo scandal.

The scandal went away almost as quickly as it started and hasn't seemed to have done any harm to the young couple.

It might be the latest reality television scandal, or it might be a big case of misunderstanding.

It seems that this isn't Rebecca White's first time claiming to be involved in some sort of celebrity scandal.

At the time, this caused quite a scandal, as Moder was married when the relationship began.

There's nothing like a good celeb scandal to get the chatter going at the water cooler every morning!

A real celeb scandal occurs when there's some mystery surrounding the event, or when something unthinkable happens.

Anyone following the news of a big celeb scandal is waiting for the next update, so they can be the first to relay the information to others.

People hang on the media to hear the latest about the scandal.

However, if there are suspicious causes behind these deaths, they become a celeb scandal.

Another example of a celebrity death scandal is Marilyn Monroe.

Other celeb scandal fodder includes the stars committing heinous and serious crimes.

Another case of a celeb scandal that resulted from a crime is one that's much less serious in nature, but highly embarrassing for the star involved.

It seems that not a day goes by when there isn't some sort of celeb scandal brewing somewhere!

Details are emerging about an Eric Dane sex tape scandal.

There are few conflicting reports on this Eric Dane sex tape scandal.

Regardless, this whole "scandal" will probably do nothing to hurt Eric Dane's career.

Martha Stewart may be very successful, but she isn't immune to celebrity scandal.

Throughout her short life, Johnson was no stranger to scandal.

It isn't a full blown scandal yet, but rumor has it, someone is shopping a Tiger Woods sex tape around.

All joking aside, you can bet Tiger wishes it was five years from now and this whole scandal was nothing but a nightmarish memory.

Like most celebrities, Rob Lowe is no stranger to scandal.

Radcliffe caused quite a scandal when he was photographed smoking an illegal substance at a party in 2009 and was then dubbed "Harry Pothead."

Joey Heatherton was not immune to celebrity scandal.

The media and employees at her business ventures wondered what would happen to the Stewart empire due to the prison scandal.

With the internet capturing every scandal as it happens, there is no shortage of material documenting the year in celebrity controversy.

In 2009, there seemed to be a new celebrity scandal every few days.

For celebrities, life in the public eye means that every potential scandal will be photographed, documented, and displayed for all to see.

Although friends and family adore the actress and claim it’s impossible not to love her, Sandra Bullock's life has not been without scandal and turmoil.

Sandra Bullock's life was relatively quiet on the personal front until 2010 when public scandal erupted from Bullock’s marriage to Monster Garage’s Jesse James.

He earned no fans, however, when rumored marital infidelity unraveled into a full-blown sex scandal involving a string of mistresses in late 2009.

Starting in the 1850s, what is often referred to as the "scandal of tights" swept through America.

The ratings change caused many retailers to pull the popular title from shelves in the wake of the scandal.

Several other dancers used the stage name "Little Egypt", including Ashea Wabe, who caused a scandal at a New York banquet when it was suggested (falsely) that she was performing in the nude.

Instead of being allowed to quietly celebrate her impending motherhood, she had to deal with an arrest, rehab rumors and a sex scandal.

Micro thong bikinis caused quite a shock wave when they first appeared on the beaches of Brazil in the late 1970's, and they're still enjoying the scandal they created all those years ago.

Despite the scandal and heresy that has shadowed Spears' career, that nostalgic gesture clearly demonstrates the love between husband and wife and shows how they both value classic traditions.

They were even spotted at the White House when a group of girls wore them to meet the President, which caused a bit of a scandal.

Smith (Nora Hanen, One Life to Live) - Smith portrayed Guya, a spiritual guide who reinvented herself after her husband got caught up in a scandal and maternal aunt of Owen and Gina.

Skipping ahead a year into the future, Nathan's NBA career is threatened with a scandal.

Murdoch went on to say that the rival news channel was "quick to leap on every scandal."

Because of the Enron Scandal, congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002.

This debacle or "scandal" as some would see it is really just a sign of growing pains from an activity that once included simply "yelling" from the side lines.

Whether you're looking for a little bit of sexy or a little bit of scandal, you're sure to find the right nightgown to fit your mood.

Her career has been a series of successful highs peppered with tabloid scandal.

Cue leaks to the press about her label refusing to release the album, cancelled summer tours, dramatic changes in management - all the requisite music biz scandal ingredients.

A 1958 UK tour ended in scandal for Jerry Lee, when the British press discovered that wife, Myra Gale Brown, who was accompanying him on tour, was both his wife and his 13 year old cousin.

Jerry Lee's career never fully recorded from this scandal, despite the fact that he and Myra later divorced.

Shame and Scandal by Madness - Pop/ska music with a light-hearted beat and funny (if childishly written) lyrics.

Scandal surrounded the show before it aired because claims were made that Denise was using her children for publicity purposes by allowing them to appear in the show.

Viewers who caught Richard Heene on Wife Swap might not have been entirely shocked to see the man caught up in a publicity-grabbing scandal.

But when the Panama "scandal" has been forgotten, for centuries to come the traveller in saluting the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the entrance of the Suez Canal will pay homage to one of the most powerful embodiments of the creative genius of the 19th century.

Early in 1893 a scandal arose in connection with the management of state banks, and particularly of the Banca Romana, whose managing director, Tanlongo, had issued 2,500,000 of duplicate bank-notes.

To the scandal of Christendom, Venice at once entered into treaty with the new masters of Syria and obtained a confirmation of her ancient trading rights.

It will be seen that the net result of Lassalle's life was to produce a European scandal, and to originate a socialistic movement in Germany, which, at the election of 1903, returned to the Reichstag eighty-one members and polled 3,010,771 votes, and at the election of 1907 returned forty-three members and polled 3,258,968 votes.

The king's disgust at this affair (which came to an open scandal before the tribunals) was so great that he was on the point of ordering Voltaire out of Prussia, and Darget the secretary had no small trouble in arranging the matter (February 1751).

He did not confine himself to news, but wrote something very like finished essays on questions of policy, trade and domestic concerns; he also introduced a "Scandal Club," in which minor questions of manners and morals were treated in a way which undoubtedly suggested the Tatlers and Spectators which followed.

But the pursuit of the English fleet was feeble, and the retreat of the Dutch was ably covered by Cornelius van Tromp, son of Martin Tromp. Much scandal was caused by the mysterious circumstances in which an order to shorten sail was given in the English flagship, and doubts were expressed of the courage of the duke of York.

His friends and his party thought to carry the body back to his beloved Paris for burial, but the government of the day arrested the procession at the frontier, an act which caused some scandal, and furnished the occasion of a terrible song of Beranger's.

Zwingli had joined in an address to the bishop of Constance calling on him no longer to endure the scandal of harlotry, but to allow the priests to marry wives, or, at least, to wink at their marriages.

Weak, foolish and dissolute, she made her reign one long scandal, which reduced the kingdom to the lowest depths of degradation.

One scandal followed hard on the other, and opposition naturally sprang up. Unfortunately, Savonarola, the head of that opposition, transgressed all bounds in his wellmeant zeal.

Before the scandal of her husband's infidelity arose in 2010, Sandra Bullock seemed to be leading a charmed life.

The revolt against fish had ruined the fisheries and driven the fishermen to turn pirates, to the great scandal and detriment of the realm.

Public sittings are apt to be means of obtaining money by false pretences, and the great scandal of spiritualism is undoubtedly the encouragement it gives to the immoral trade of fraudulent mediumship.

He at once began love-making, and in spite of his ugliness succeeded in winning the heart of the lady to whom his colonel was attached; this led to such scandal that his father obtained a lettre de cachet, and the young scapegrace was imprisoned in the isle of Re.

It was supposed to contain heretical propositions and caused a good deal of scandal, inciting Baluze against Faget, both of whom abused the other, to defend the memory of the prelate.

There was not a little scandal about her relations with Narbonne; and this Mickleham sojourn (the details of which are known from, among other sources, the letters of Fanny Burney) has never been altogether satisfactorily accounted for.

But the scandal provoked by his Defensor pacis, condemned by the court of Avignon in 1326, lasted much longer.

Giron, who had been French tutor to her children, which resulted in a grave scandal and a divorce.

The private life of the king in fact gave rise to much scandal; nevertheless he was an excellent constitutional monarch, and, though he never sought to win popular favour, succeeded in winning and retaining in a remarkable degree his people's affectionate loyalty.

This affair was not only a scandal for which the Austrian government, through its agents, was responsible; but it placed the authorities at Vienna in a serious dilemma.

Already the isolation of Austria had been conspicuous in the congress of Paris, where Cavour, the Sardinian plenipotentiary, laid bare before assembled Europe the scandal of her rule in Italy.

Then came the scandal of the decorations in which President Grevy's son-in-law Daniel Wilson figured, and the Rouvier cabinet fell in the attempt to screen the president.

A scandal concerning the tobacco monopoly led to the fall of Menabrea, who was succeeded in.

The letter, arriving at Bec when Lanfranc was absent at Rome (1050), was sent after him, but was opened before it reached him, and Lanfranc, fearing the scandal, brought it under the notice of Pope Leo IX.

He had to deal with the Wilson scandal which had led to President Grevy's downfall, and with the revisionist agitation of General Boulanger.

The process, which lasted ten years, gave rise to not a little scandal, especially that of the Cassettengeschichte which pursued Lassalle all the rest of his life.

They had three children; there was no scandal between them; the baron obtained money and the lady obtained, as a guaranteed ambassadress of a foreign power of consideration, a much higher position at court and in society than she could have secured by marrying almost any Frenchman, without the inconveniences which might have been expected had she married a Frenchman superior to herself in rank.

This Anastasius, in a pulpit oration which the patriarch himself is said to have prepared for him, caused great scandal to the partisans of the Marian cultus then beginning by saying, "Let no one call Mary the mother of God, for Mary was a human being; and that God should be born of a human being is impossible."

His private life was not free from scandal, especially in his youth, but it is difficult to believe the worst of the tales which were circulated by his opponents, e.g.

It was also about this same period that the grave scandal of the Chinese and Malabar rites began to attract attention in Europe, and to make thinking men ask seriously whether the Jesuit missionaries in those parts taught anything which could fairly be called Christianity at all.

While serving the government as a silent weapon against political adversaries or dangerous writers and as a means of punishing culprits of high birth without the scandal of a suit at law, the lettres de cachet had many other uses.

As Whip the Master of Elibank earned high praise for his energy and tact; but he was somewhat unfortunately mixed up with the " Marconi Scandal " in connexion with Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Rufus Isaacs, as having invested part of the Liberal Party funds in American Marconi shares in which he, with them, was speculating - a transaction hotly debated in Parliament in 1913.

In Order To Terminate Dissensions, Which Produced Both Scandal And Schism In The Church, The Council Of Nicaea, Which Was Held In The Year 325, Ordained That The Celebration Of Easter Should Thenceforth Always Take Place On The Sunday Which Immediately Follows The Full Moon That Happens Upon, Or Next After, The Day Of The Vernal Equinox.

On the Sunday following, Mary left Edinburgh for Seton Palace, 12 miles from the capital, where scandal asserted that she passed the time merrily in shooting-matches with Bothwell for her partner against Lords Seton and Huntly; other accounts represent Huntly and Bothwell as left at Holyrood in charge of the infant prince.

But in 1639-1640 civil discords in England stood in the way of a strong foreign policy, and the adroit Aarssens was able so " to sweeten the bitterness of the pill " as to bring King Charles not merely to " overlook the scandal of the Downs," but to consent to the marriage of the princess had a quasi-independence of its own.

Besides the qualifications required of a presentee by canon law, such as being of the canonical age, and in priest's orders before admission, sufficient learning and proper orthodoxy or morals, the Benefices Act requires that a year shall have elapsed since a transfer of the right of patronage, unless it can be shown that such transfer was not made in view of a probable vacancy; that the presentee has been a deacon for three years; and that he is not unfit for the discharge of his duties by reason of physical or mental infirmity or incapacity, grave pecuniary embarrassment, grave misconduct or neglect of duty in an ecclesiastical office, evil life, or conduct causing grave scandal concerning his moral character since his ordination, or being party to an illegal agreement with regard to the presentation; that notice of the presentation has been given to the parish of the benefice.

The spiritual princes, besides displaying all the faults of the secular princes, had special defects of their own; and as simony was universally practised, the lives of multitudes of the inferior clergy were a public scandal, while their services were cold and unimpressive.

The scandal and the pressure of foreign Catholic opinion compelled Depretis to pursue a more energetic policy, and to publish a formal declaration of the intangibility of the Law of Guarantees.

After the "Pacific scandal" of 1874 the leader of the opposite party declared that "John A."