How To Use Resign In A Sentence
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A few weeks before the vote on November 7, the buzz goes, Cheney will announce his resignation, ostensibly because of signs of new trouble with his ticker.
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A lot of those who were named were deselected or resigned.
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And when Elliot Spitzer got caught fooling w/a prostie, he resigned on the spot … saaaaaaaaaaaay … WHY is Vitter still in office?
Think Progress » Vitter receives standing ovation at Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
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Julian ought to have resigned, then he'd have come out of it with some credit.
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Officially, Carter resigned, but everyone knows he was fired.
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NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student.
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There is growing anticipation that the prime minister will have to resign.
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The governor refused to accept Cox's resignation .
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He resigned from the Council in 1990 when new rules prevented paid council officers sitting as elected members.
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Sancho resigns himself and agrees to the task on the condition that he is not required to draw blood with these whippings and that gentle lashes count too.
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With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor.
Inside the Whale
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The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her.
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The Seattle Times says a business columnist and associate editor has resigned after admitting he plagiarized the work of other journalists.
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The condemned men were resigned to their fate.
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His critics say he should resign because he has lost the moral ascendancy to govern and to save the plummeting economy from collapse.
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That's what I call a thoroughly grammatical lady," said Sal, looking after her until a turn in the road hid her from view, "and I shall try to be resigned, though the vital spark leaves this house when Mary goes.
The English Orphans
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They are sensitive to the sense of struggle and resignation in this dramatic movement and their rubato, though fluid, never damages the integrity of the underlying pulse.
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Many plan to resign within a year blaming heavy workloads, low pay and lack of opportunities.
The Sun
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He resigned from his post as Bishop when the scandal broke.
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She imagined walking into the office and handing in her resignation.
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There was a growing consensus that the Prime Minister should resign.
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I'm not sure what happens in Florida when a representative resigns and how the vacancy is filled.
September 2006
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The local council has been thrown into total confusion by her resignation.
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The team refused to resign themselves to defeat/to being defeated.
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When he made that announcement, the prime minister presumably did not mean that the official would continue to do his first-class job until Wednesday evening, whereupon he would draft a truly top-hole letter of resignation.
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I stand by the statement I made earlier - there is no reason for the minister to resign.
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Her resignation came amid investor fury after she overpaid wildly for a Brazilian iron ore mine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The meeting resolved that teachers had no choice but to resign in protest over the government's ‘negligence’.
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There was widespread speculation that she was going to resign.
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He should use the Christmas period for mature reflection and then tender his resignation.
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You don't want other employees to feel they have to resign to get a pay rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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The top police resignations that rocked the British Isles last week stem directly from Scotland Yard's uninterest in acting on this evidence.
A British Watergate?
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To say that her resignation was a shock would be an understatement - it caused panic.
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The President resigned amid considerable controversy.
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He proposed a motion that the chairman resign.
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He has sent the authority a resignation letter signalling his intention to quit from next Monday.
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The prime minister is adamant that he will not resign.
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The founder of the Bangladeshi micro-lending institution the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, has resigned as its head after a row with the government.
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7 "Citing 'Failed Efforts' to Inform Public of Condom 'Ineffectiveness, ' Physician Groups, Politicians Ask CDC Head to Resign, " Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, July 25, 2001.
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To their disappointment, the vote of confidence was not given whereupon they resigned from their posts and left the meeting.
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You must resign yourselves to waiting a bit longer.
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The guy should just resign already, before he embarrasses his party any more.
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The Prime Minister's press chief returned from Washington yesterday amid unprecedented speculation he was going to resign.
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As was having to resign as a school governor at a local school.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lemos resigned on March 25, allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges.
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She dreamed of getting married, resigning her job, staying home and decorating a living room and baking bobka and cooking blintzes and kreplach, just like her mother.
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In chess, resignation is signaled by tipping over one's king.
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Chief executive and chief financial officer resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was resigned to getting a proper job and finding a leisure pursuit for the weekends.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was from an old employee of the Patent Office, offering his resignation to the head of the department.
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The supposedly cocksure and unshakeable defence secretary has come under pressure to resign over the photo scandal.
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She replaced Ruth Feldgrill-Zankel who had resigned to become deputy mayor of Graz.
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The minister's resignation was given widespread coverage.
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The opposition called a protest to demand the president's resignation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Convention dictates that a minister should resign in such a situation.
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I can't say I blame her for resigning .
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The MPs angered the party leadership in June by resigning the whip at Westminster in a row over policy.
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The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary
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The coach has already turned in his resignation.
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He was under strong pressure to resign.
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The director has threatened to give his resignation in to the Board.
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She was forced to resign because of ill health.
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Hence, I am tendering my resignation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Few senior figures have issued any public statements but privately the resignation's been welcomed.
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I've just resigned from my job.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am resigning as chairman and handing over to my deputy.
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The director is under increasing pressure to resign.
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The minister was under pressure to resign.
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The reporters really were doorstepping the Prime Minister as he made his way to the palace to resign.
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A strange calm seemed to be settling over his whole body as he resigned himself to what was going to happen.
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At around 6 p.m. Buenos Aires time, 19 hours after declaring a state of siege, De la Rua announced his intention to resign.
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There will be champagne and smiles and nobody will read a resignation speech.
The Sun
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His resignation announcement was widely expected.
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The orchestra also saw its five top administrators resign last year, including executive director Michael Tiknis.
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The allegations, if true, could lead to her resignation.
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Hani Qawasmi, who had been considered a moderate civil servant acceptable to both factions, resigned due to what he termed harmful behavior by both sides.
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Both men denied any wrongdoing but still resigned from their posts
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No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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His resigned acceptance of the situations in which the plot places him is a masterpiece of understated comedy acting and very, very effective.
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The prevalence of infi - delity, immorality and vice as surely indicates ap - proaching calamities, as clouds indicate a shower, winds forebode a storm, or the conjunction, or op - position of the sun and moon, in certain places in the heavens, presignifying an eclipse.
Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed
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She bowed to the inevitable and resigned.
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The will of Providence be resigned to in the rest: as that leads, let me patiently and unrepiningly follow! —
Clarissa Harlowe
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Maybe it's an air of resignation; most delegates realise that what they think matters very little.
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They claim a minority are resigned to renting permanently.
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I stand by the statement I made earlier - there is no reason for the minister to resign.
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She handed in her resignation following the dispute over company policy.
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There have been no rows, no disagreements and there is no chance of him offering his resignation.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Gove's case, Tory insiders say Andy Coulson, Cameron's communications chief, blackballed his choice of policy spad, a clever maverick called Dominic Cummings despite Gove's threat to resign.
For Gove, not forgotten
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My parents know what I do, and whilst not thrilled, are resigned enough not to nag me and trust that this is a temporary situation.
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Given the uproar at that time, Mr. Stimson had to resign as was described in the WSJ at cully-stimson-resigns.
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I predict that within a short period of time Bercow's or his wife's ego, avarice and self-aggrandising habits - with a little help from a few resentful MPs no doubt - will combine and he will let himself down and resign.
The Speaker: Bercow's boundaries | Editorial
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Believing them to be both anti-Semitic and antisocialist, Schneiderman resigned in 1914.
Rose Schneiderman.
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Adair, who loves Virgilia, resigns himself to be her confidant and Fergus' mentor.
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Two Independent Ministers will also tender their resignation, sources said.
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Fifteen minutes after reading that crumpled note, I handed my letter of resignation to the senior pastor.
Christianity Today
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Instead, his deputy read out a televised statement in which he avoided the word "resignation" and said Mubarak was "handing power" to the Supreme Military Council, a group of army generals who have ruled Egypt since February 11.
Reuters: Press Release
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We haven't been notified of how long he may be away, but we've resigned ourselves to around six months.
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The Kamakura shogunate represented the real power in the country until the resignation of the last shogun in 1867.
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Somebody in the know told me he's going to resign.
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It is with great regret that I accept your resignation.
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President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro rejected his resignation and told him to go to parliament to seek another mandate.
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I would like to look for a new position and resign from my current one.
The Sun
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You know, when you take a country to war on particular grounds, and those grounds prove baseless, the ethical thing to do is to resign.
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His reason for resigning was that he was under stress.
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For her father's comfort, noting the sad wistful eyes that watched her coming in and going out, she had resigned herself to spend long melancholy hours within doors, reading aloud till Sir John fell asleep, playing backgammon -- a game she detested worse even than shove-halfpenny, which latter primitive game they played sometimes on the shovel-board in the hall.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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The director is under increasing pressure to resign.
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He sensed much dithering over moves to buy new players and simply decided enough was enough and resigned.
The Sun
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The selectors should resign en bloc.
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He hovered over me that he would resign his post of manager.
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He once said: ‘A minister should either keep his trap shut or resign.’
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Our increased knowledge of hygiene has transformed resignation and inaction in face of epidemic disease from a religious virtue to a justly punishable offence.
Infinite in All Directions
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Apparently in thrall to the resignation deadline set by David Trimble, the British government moved towards reintroducing direct rule.
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An announcement about his resignation is imminent.
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Worst still is that there nearly seems to be a resignation to the idea of partitioning Libya, and in fact there are those who have begun to promote it.
Raghida Dergham: Beyond the "Arab Spring" and Obama's Options
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He also was close to attracting Williams, who visited only Memphis and Arizona after decommitting from Southern California following coach Tim Floyd's resignation.
SI.com
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Elizabeth Anne Ford was thrust onto the national stage unexpectedly when President Nixon chose her husband, then the House minority leader, as vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned.
Betty Ford: A beacon for women, addicts
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Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign.
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But she didn't have one and was worried about resigning herself to the "crapshoot" of a random doctor at the hospital, someone whose birthing philosophy she would not know and with whom she'd have no relationship.
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He resigned the priorship of Toledo at the command of Philip III who desired his presence at Madrid.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The prime minister's speech fuelled speculation that she is about to resign.
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you can always resign if you don't like it
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I was given to understand that she had resigned.
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The borough council's Labour group leader has resigned her teaching job amid claims of pressure.
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He spent ages negotiating for a pay increase, only to resign from his job soon after he'd received it.
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In 1780, he was installed prebendary at Carlisle, and resigned Appleby on becoming archdeacon in 1782.
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So a sort of resigned acceptance set in.
Times, Sunday Times
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He resigned himself to becoming a legitimate baller at linebacker.
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Three deacons had resigned within the last year.
Christianity Today
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The news that the chairman would resign set off seismic waves in the business community.
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He was forced to resign due to ill health.
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Bussa says Muamba has ceased to be the umpire and harmonizer of viewpoints and must resign.
DRC Opposition Ousts Leader Ahead of Elections
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The President is under intense pressure to resign.
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Yesterday the leader rejected suggestions the deselections and resignation were evidence of the party being ‘out of touch’.
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There was also more than one call for him to resign.
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His sluggish response kicked off a crescendo of criticism, prompting calls for him to resign from within his own coalition.
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In December another presidential adviser, Carlos Spadona, had been forced to resign for his involvement in the case.
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Resignedly, his face pale, Zac Deight started to call, all too aware of the dazer a yard from his face.
Starship
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In the light of our foregoing discussion, it is clear that letting deflation happen must not be simply equated to an apathetic resignation before the power of mysterious forces and blind market mechanisms.
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Men with a good grasp of their problems tend not to resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Morgan has offered his resignation and it has been accepted.
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The speaker of Iraq's parliament has resigned, paving the way for lawmakers to authorize British and other non-U.S. foreign troops to remain in the country into 2009.
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He must resign before Andreyev had the chance to force him out and humiliate him further.
WALL GAMES
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So, taking drastic steps, John resigned from his job and, with his one suitcase, stayed in Southampton.
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We have to resign ourselves to fate since we cannot think out an effective remedy.
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His resignation triggered a chain of events that led eventually to the downfall of the government.
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The opposition have been repeating their calls for the president's resignation.
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post/position He resigned from his post as finance director.
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News of the director's resignation sent/threw the management into a spin.
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His position had become untenable and he was forced to resign.
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You had me worried for a moment—I thought you were going to resign!
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But, however we may now regard it, it was in perfect accordance with the trickish spirit of the age; and the French king resigned all right of rebuking his antagonist on this score, when he condescended to become a party with him to the infamous partition treaty, and still more when he so grossly violated it.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
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There is kind provision made even against our frailties: as we are so constituted that time abundantly abates our sorrows, and begets in us that resignment of temper, which ought to have been produced by a better cause; a due sense of the authority of God, and our state of dependence.
Human Nature and Other Sermons
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Within days, the dad of three resigned from his job at Heathrow airport.
The Sun
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Watson is still under intense pressure to resign after the revelation that he breached the strict rule of collective responsibility which forces members of the government to toe the line on policy.
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He sighed with profound resignation.
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However, BP termed Igor Sechin's statement a "misquote" and denied that Hayward would resign.
New Statesman
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She moaned with pleasure she felt so resigned to him.
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The minister's resignation was given widespread coverage.
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The New York watchdog said that five executives would be fired or resign as a result of the investigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a story afloat that he'll resign.
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I did not have any intimation that he was going to resign.
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You don't want other employees to feel they have to resign to get a pay rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not clear whether he volunteered his resignation but headhunters have been appointed to replace him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Men with a good grasp of their problems tend not to resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
WN.com - Business News
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The frustrating thing is that this multisided, Darwinian foodkampf is utterly necessary; nobody has the option of resigning his or her commission.
Colby Cosh
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His resignation from his position on Monday afternoon last came as a big shock to the soccer public in Waterford.
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Nixon was forced to resign when evidence of his involvement in Watergate cover-up emerges.
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The police chief resigned last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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His resignation was merely a gesture.
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The Campus called for Jeffries' resignation, citing his nonstop meddling in student government.
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Greene resigned due to the controversy in September 2002, admitted he had a problem with womanizing and promptly disappeared.
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The defeat led to his resignation as team manager.
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He turned his face resignedly back to the path, just in time to avoid tripping over a protuberant root.
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Disgruntled employees recently called for his resignation.
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No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Sean 1 is the older, experienced mover, with a dry sense of humour, a smoking habit, probably resigned to being a removalist for most of his working life, and apparently loving it.
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His vice president also had to resign in disgrace.
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He is such a sleaze trying to pretend he's resigning because he's gay and had an affair.
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The scandal caused a series of resignations from the National's board and also claimed the scalp of its Chief Executive Officer.
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When the minister was forced to resign, the press was generally seen as the villain of the piece.
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Thus their forced resignation or firing from Hearst, CNN and NPR respectively is the right action.
Parvez Ahmed: Juan Williams to Helen Thomas: Clarity Missing in Debate Over Free Speech
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They confirm other studies about why people resign.
Christianity Today
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He pretended that resigning was part of his long - term career strategy.
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It's not yet clear whether the Prime Minister's resignation offer is a serious one, or whether it's simply a tactical move.
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following the scandal, the cardinal resigned his cardinalate
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The latter, contrary to the expressed view of the Chief Whip, was aghast at the prospect of resignation.
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She won her claim for constructive dismissal because she had been pressured into resigning.
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She gave a sigh of resignation.
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In the end, Gerald R.. Ford pardoned Nixon after he resigned the presidency in disgrace.
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Neither letter refers to the resignation of the Eritrean ambassador to Sweden.
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Junior officers in the British army require their commanding officer's permission to marry or they are obliged to resign their commission.
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The Parliamentary debate on this report was the actual catalyst which prompted the minister to resign.
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Resigning his see to write, preach, and travel, he lived ascetically in London.
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She had resigned from her job as she knew she faced dismissal and her employer had refused to provide her with a reference because of the court case.
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Roosevelt ordered Morrill to resign his inspectorship at once.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
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The opposition had imposed a deadline of Aug. 31 for Nabiyev to restore stability or resign.
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His sense of decency forced him to resign.
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Clinton's AIDS "czar" resigned after being criticized by gay activists for being weak.
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As for Romney, it will be an amusing game to count how many times he will repeat the phrase "resign in disgrace" over the next week as he attempts to focus voters' attention on Gingrich's career in the House of Representatives.
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