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Gorton had been causing disturbances for several years, and had already been evicted from several places for creating difficulties which centered around his religious beliefs, insubordination towards the magistrates, refusal to pay taxes, and his dealings with and treatment of the Indians.
It started with a refusal to pay the car parking fee.
In North America this backlash caused the American Revolution, which began with the refusal to pay a tax imposed by the king of England.
This refusal to pay cash led to an agreement with the police that the Cézanne should be surrendered in return for relinquishing title to the other six stolen pictures.
Norbert Lüdecke, a professor of canon law at Bonn University, said that while every disobedient Catholic is to be punished based on the sin committed, the bishops' decree effectively placed refusal to pay church taxes nearly on par with the most severe offenses in the church.
Sullivan's secretary sent the World a bill for fictitious extra expenses which was returned with a polite refusal to pay.
On May 9, 1846, Polk began to prepare a war message to Congress, justifying hostilities on the grounds of Mexican refusal to pay U.S. claims and refusal to negotiate with Slidell.
The conflict initially started with Vlad's refusal to pay the jizya (tax on non-Muslims) to the Sultan and intensified when Vlad Ţepeş invaded Bulgaria and impaled over 23,000 Turks.
The group's real beef with Fatah lies in the latter's refusal to pay salaries to 40,000 Hamas government employees in Gaza, along with numerous other accusations of violations of the reconciliation agreement.
One of those convicted, Rodger Yates, 66, of Jenison, Mich., had been with the Montana Freemen, whose use of bogus documents and refusal to pay taxes preceded the group's 81-day standoff with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1996.
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