| Employees who didn't resign or retire were moved to other stores selling office machines such as photocopiers, he said. |
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| The guy should just resign already, before he embarrasses his party any more. |
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| They should resign from those positions because the posts were allotted to the party, not to them. |
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| Their three colleagues now urged them to resign to avoid the impeachment which seemed destined otherwise to follow. |
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| By 1885 John Orme's health had begun to fail, and he found it necessary to resign his preaching duties. |
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| He was sad and tearful most of the time, wanting to resign his job as he felt he was worthless. |
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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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| It would simply be helpful if the neighbours could resign themselves to an approximately similar exercise, with fewer tantrums and hysterics. |
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| The long term result is incompetent captains, whose poor leadership creates disgruntled soldiers and NCOs who resign or do not re-enlist. |
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| Smith let it be known that he would resign as Labour leader unless he got the support of conference for his motion. |
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| The requirement to resign was replaced by the sanction of a fine to the maximum permitted under the regulations. |
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| The contract I signed initially didn't say anything past the probation period, so I was in the clear to resign without notice. |
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| Earlier in the week she had appeared before MPs to say she did not intend to resign because she had a clear conscience. |
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| Prebble's decision to resign as leader may well be the only thing that saves it from being swallowed up by a resurgent National party. |
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| So why don't they do the honourable thing and resign their posts and let the citizens run the city according to the wishes of the citizens? |
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| Another reader accused of such an act was only asked to resign from headship of the department. |
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| He was forced to resign when the prostitute sold her kiss-and-tell story to the press. |
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| The drafters were so futuristic that they did not foresee circumstances where the Chief Executive would resign before completing his term. |
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| Trimble has said he would resign if the IRA refused to decommission its weapons by the end of June. |
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| Why should someone resign for taking a principled stand based on a reasoned position? |
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| But it lingered in his mind that if something arose that they had to steamroller through, I would be the type to resign on principle. |
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| I resign myself to paying over the odds, and remind myself that this is still an outrageously low sum. |
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| He said he does not intend staying in office beyond his term, but rejected calls to resign before that. |
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| He claims he was forced to resign because he lives with his partner out of wedlock. |
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| She said she felt she had to resign from Croft House after reports led to officials visiting the home on a number of occasions. |
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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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| Within three years of that jibe, a bribery scandal forced him to resign in disgrace. |
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| We'd seen a good man resign and we'd gone through a lengthy leadership contest. |
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| Last week Karzai threatened to resign unless regional warlords paid more revenue into central government coffers. |
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| When their car won't start after a bushwalk, the three resign themselves to having to spend the night in the car. |
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| The individual who wishes to resign his duties as a priest normally asks his diocese for a leave. |
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| She retains the vice presidency and would take over the presidency if Estrada were to resign or be forced out of office. |
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| It is almost a year since it was announced that the beleaguered vicar would resign as soon as he got a new job. |
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| Nor was he content to see Miller resign himself to a job of taking dictation from high school coaches. |
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| It may be time to require that a future pontiff who reaches the age of eighty be required to resign. |
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| Oppositions always cry resign when they smell blood, merely because that's what Oppositions do. |
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| In February 1559 he made a desperate plea to the queen to allow him to resign the governorship. |
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| If you were to resign Bernard, if your whole party branch was to disappear up its own fundament, no one would ever know. |
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| Look down the road, and knew this stuff was unfixable, and would rather abandon ship now than resign in shame in two years. |
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| If people aren't interested in private lives, why have so many cabinet ministers been forced to resign over the years? |
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| When men resign their opinion to the control of self-will, they, of course, become uncandid, and thus blinded. |
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| In the event the President appoints a member of a National Assembly to a ministerial post that member should thereafter resign his or her seat. |
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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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| I guess it means that we should keep pricking away at him but make no serious effort to get him to resign or step down. |
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| In 1990 he had to resign as a councillor for Bowling when new rules were introduced preventing paid council officers sitting as elected members. |
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| The row began before Christmas when Councillor Jarvis threatened to resign after a blazing argument with a senior official during a meeting. |
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| But a week later The Harvard Crimson called for her to resign as a Harvard overseer. |
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| Police could lose money or be asked to resign if they don't meet strict performance targets set by the Greater Manchester force. |
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| They had a to-do just last week, when Simon had to tell her not to resign from politics. |
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| He had to resign over his apparent condonation of Mussolini's conquests in the Abyssinian War. |
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| The order for retreat of the badly planned invasion was called and the battlegroup's admiral, Kenneth Alcolado, was forced to resign in disgrace. |
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| In his last years he wanted to resign his see to become a Cistercian himself, but was refused. |
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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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| Until, that is, all three threatened to resign on Monday evening if no better offer was forthcoming. |
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| But feeling really rather badly treated by the staff I decided to resign from the Social Committee. |
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| The only course of action is to persuade him to resign or to hold a primary. |
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| The Green Party will ask the Taoiseach to resign if he is found to have obstructed the work of the tribunal. |
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| By this time, alarm bells are buzzing like crazy, and I start to resign myself to the thought that I'm not getting it back. |
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| Taylor was to address a joint session of Congress yesterday to officially declare his intention to resign and announce a successor. |
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| Ralph asked me to resign my full-time post and be his assistant, because he needed someone. |
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| She had sufficient control over herself to accept his decision without a murmur, and to resign herself to his will. |
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| The Chancellor has already made it clear to the fractious left wing of the Social Democrats that he will resign if he does not carry the day. |
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| Dent to resign in retaliation for their efforts to bring financial problems to light. |
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| This saw him give up his bishop and after that he had no option but to resign on the 41st move. |
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| In a knight and two pawns ending, he had little choice but to resign after 60 moves. |
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| Any current councillors who plan to run for mayor will also have to resign their seats. |
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| The police officer is the fourth officer from the police force to resign after featuring in the programme, screened on Tuesday night. |
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| The only thing that it can do now to appease the people would be to resign. |
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| Should he resign his seat and retire from politics until his name is cleared? |
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| He will have to declare bankruptcy and will be obliged to resign his seat in parliament. |
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| One of the first things a prosecutor does in a plea negotiation with a crooked pol is try to force the pol to resign his or her office. |
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| Nixon was forced to resign when evidence of his involvement in Watergate cover-up emerges. |
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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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| I further call on her to present a public apology to the family, and then to resign her office. |
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| So why is it that he wasn't forced to resign his parliamentary seat as well? |
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| She added that she did not feel it was necessary for her to resign her seat and stand again as an independent. |
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| Once a first lieutenant in the Army, he had chosen to resign and was punished by being conscripted as a soldier back into the same unit. |
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| Once in office, that person could accept no other office in the state and had to resign any office already held. |
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| He represents the Meath constituency in the Dail and as a result of his appointment will resign his seat and a by-election will be held in Meath. |
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| The caller, one of my informants, tells me that a Democratic Party leader has decided to resign. |
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| He decided to resign his commission in the British army and became the first librarian of the Belfast Society for the Promotion of Knowledge. |
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| He became the first African leader upon independence to resign office voluntarily. |
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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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| When Parrish tried to resign his commission, the Army told him it was too late. |
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| More to the point, might he have to resign if he blew up two trains for a lark? |
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| He told police commanders here on Friday they should resign if they were not prepared to stop prisoners escaping from police holding cells. |
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| Article 25 of the Act stipulates that no worker or employer shall be forced to maintain or resign from his membership in a trade union. |
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| If this man worked in the private sector and had presided over repeated financial debacles of a similar magnitude, he would have been invited to resign years ago. |
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| Technically, the popular general must resign his military post in order to qualify as a candidate. |
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| Why will the human resources minister not fess up to this scandalous absconding of tax dollars and simply resign? |
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| The finance minister really should resign because he has been put out to pasture. |
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| Ministers caught in a jam about the truth refused to resign and were never pressured by the Prime Minister to do so. |
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| On Tuesday evening, after losing his majority in the chamber of deputies, Berlusconi told Napolitano he would resign. |
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| He had not the moral courage to face a vote, and now he proclaims to the country that he was an ill-used man because he was obliged to resign. |
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| Reproducing the full text would not have placed Mr Jagmetti under the same kind of pressure and would not have forced him to resign. |
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| However, failure to reach an agreement on the precise composition of the Government prompted Mr. Hariri to resign on 10 September. |
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| The probationer may resign at any time during the trial period, giving one month's notice, unless otherwise agreed. |
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| Perhaps an old man dying would do well To smile as he rejoins the cosmic dust Life comes from, for resign himself he must. |
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| Dramatics such as his threat to resign play well in the cheap seats, but their price may be the return of the Tories as a political force. |
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| He was charged with discreditable conduct, found guilty, and the penalty imposed was that he should resign within seven days or be dismissed. |
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| There seem to be a lot of people who think that Mr Weiner ought to resign, but are struggling to defend that reaction analytically. |
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| A while back the Parliament forced the Santer Commission to resign en masse when one of its members failed to assume their responsibilities. |
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| A dispute over money led Ellet to resign in 1848, leaving the bridge uncompleted. |
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| The ousting of former president Thabo Mbeki by the ANC in September, prompted some party members to resign from government. |
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| We still do not know why the Prime Minister forced one of his ministers to resign in the dead of night. |
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| To start your pension, you must resign from your job and sever your relationship with your employer. |
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| Certainly, the Vatican never wants to give the appearance of having someone resign under pressure. |
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| Normalization was delayed, however, by the Watergate crisis that ultimately forced Nixon to resign in disgrace from the presidency. |
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| He who can resign himself to the will of the Almighty with simple faith and guileless love realizes the Lord very quickly. |
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| The failure of the attack on the Dardanelles, an operation which he supported, forced him to resign his position. |
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| An official wishing to resign shall state unequivocally in writing his intention to leave the service of the Agency definitively. |
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| A school commissioner may resign from office by transmitting a writing to that effect signed by him to the secretary general of the school board. |
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| He said he had to threaten to resign to prevent the promised introduction of the first patient waiting times for treatment being abandoned. |
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| And Gordon Brown has made a bad situation worse – for himself too, as MPs threaten to resign or resort to legal advice. |
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| The person taking responsibility for handling these documents offered to resign and I accepted it. |
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| However another financial scandal forced the new Agriculture Minister Mr. Takehiko Endo to resign only a week after the cabinet reshuffle. |
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| He was a splendid worker but influence was brought to bear on him, which eventually made him decide to resign from the mission and enter the mining business. |
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| It was literally my one chance to express myself or to resign myself to a life of drudgery in a factory. |
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| Five days later my fiancée had to return to England to resign her job, arrange her affairs and say good-bye to her family and friends. |
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| It's hard to resign – you give up a lot, not just a bit of power, money and the car pool. |
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| We were given an option to either resign or face expulsion from the party. |
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| The parliament may censure the government, or compel it to resign through a motion of no confidence. |
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| This particular member, as I recall, said that he would resign his seat before he would turn to another party. |
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| If the Vice-President decides to resign his office, he shall communicate his decision to the President. |
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| A Member of the Commission shall resign if the President so requests, after obtaining the approval of the College. |
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| A modern hero, he refuses to resign himself to it and aspires to put the soul back into the school. |
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| Recommendation 30: The Act provide that trustees are free to resign at any time provided that at least one trustee remains. |
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| Board members have to resign at the latest at the General Meeting following their 70th birthday. |
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| All employees were asked how likely they are to resign in the next 12 months. |
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| They would allow an MP to resign and allow Parliament to relieve him of his duties. |
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| Any person referred to in this subdivision may resign by transmitting a writing to that effect, signed by him, to the person who appointed him. |
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| The correspondence between the intention to resign and taking action by looking for work is strong but not perfect. |
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| The penalty is only rarely imposed, as members often resign before they can be voted out of Congress. |
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| And then there are those who just rode through the controversy and refused to resign despite public pressure. |
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| He succeeded the first president to ever resign from office. |
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| New Zealand rugby chiefs denied last night they were under pressure to resign to help the Kiwis regain their role as co-hosts of the 2003 Rugby World Cup. |
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| But that doesn't mean defense attorneys and reformers should resign themselves to a conviction every time a client is fingered by a victim's last words. |
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| You should do the decent thing and resign with immediate effect. |
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| Without an Iron Dome defense system, air raid sirens or even bomb shelters, people resign themselves to their fate. |
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| He was eventually allowed to leave, but he was forced to resign as ambassador and now lives in Washington, effectively in exile. |
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| Meanwhile, none of the said political masters appear to have offered to resign in acknowledgement of their share of responsibility for the creation of the fiasco. |
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| A British senior civil servant, in contrast, is required to resign his post once he is adopted as a prospective political candidate, and very few have followed this course. |
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| He said he would not resign his seat to allow a by-election to take place. |
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| There is no requirement for a member of Congress to resign after pleading guilty to a felony. |
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| She went back on her promise to resign and made a hash of explaining why. |
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| She has even threatened to resign rather than sack teachers. |
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| Less than two years after buying EMI, Hands' investors forced him to resign as CEO of terra firma over anger at their losses. |
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| Conversely, Shah's proposals that we should all resign to being Hindus is not only based on mysticism and some New-Age notion of limited Hinduism, it is also impracticable. |
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| Professor Paterson, later to resign from the committee over the BBC's ultimate refusal to budge over the issue, has provided an account of this meeting. |
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| Because he's been such a toy poodle for corporations that now are proving to be systemically corrupt, Harvey's been taking heat, including bipartisan demands that he resign. |
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| I call on him to quit smoking immediately or resign his cabinet post. |
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| I am very sure that we should say that he should resign full stop. |
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| He was forced to resign from the position of transport secretary at the end of May after an 11-month tenure marked by a series of gaffes and blunders. |
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| I propose that, simultaneously to appointing the senior management to the board of the trading subsidiaries, you resign your directorship from each one of them. |
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| Those purchasing the tablet online from the discounter will have to resign themselves to missing Christmas this year as the earliest delivery date is December 27th. |
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| And when they loyally back leaders, deny aspirations to be one or resign to spend more time with their families, politicians fib. |
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| Everything else one must resign oneself to losing: pictures, clothes, statues, the piano — even the books. |
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| For someone with MS, especially a relatively young person, it can be very difficult to resign oneself to living in an institution. |
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| Unilateral requests often lead to nothing but having to resign oneself to a failed marriage. |
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| But that doesn't mean you should resign yourself to the gross jarred variety. |
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| Do you resign yourself to what amounts to a permanent occupation of the West Bank? |
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| You should probably resign yourself to this and write up an honest and insightful report. |
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| Once you resign yourself to a certain degree of nervousness, then you can start practising some of the physical techniques for controlling it. |
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| The moment you resign yourself to the idea that you'll remain a complete outsider, a friend will offer a hand, and everything will be fine. |
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| Do not resign yourself to that life, so was grateful and accept it with compassion and pride. |
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| The following season the fans called for the board to resign as Villa finished 16th in the Second Division. |
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| In January 1711, Anne forced Sarah to resign her court offices, and Abigail took over as Keeper of the Privy Purse. |
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| In September 2016, Cameron announced that he would resign as MP for Witney. |
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| It was announced on 11 July 2016 that he would resign on 13 July and was to be succeeded by Home Secretary Theresa May. |
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| Originally a K9 dog for the police department, Captain was asked to resign for unknown reasons. |
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| Although people with heart failure commonly experience depression or anxiety, it does not mean you have to resign yourself to living with these feelings. |
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| Nothing will improve this room, so you had better resign yourself to it. |
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| An MP who wishes to resign has first to accept an office of profit under the Crown, thus vacating their seat. |
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| It was at this pivotal moment, as the King seemed ready to resign to the barons' demands, that Edward began to take control of the situation. |
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| He struck the names of many senators and equites who no longer met qualifications, but showed respect by allowing them to resign in advance. |
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| Any member may resign from a trade union by giving prior notice. |
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| Each member is free to resign from the Forum. |
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| By convention if a government loses the confidence of the House of Commons it must either resign or a General Election is held. |
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| A government is not required to resign even if it loses the confidence of the Lords and is defeated in key votes in that House. |
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| It would be easy to despair, to resign oneself to believing that they are a pusillanimous bunch of stooges driven by a desire to climb the greasy pole. |
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| Under pressure from the university authorities, he forced Childe to resign despite much opposition from staff. |
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| Given the history of humans in Hawaii, it would be easy to resign oneself to the seeming inevitability of extinction for most indigenous biodiversity. |
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| After a resurgence of gas protests in 2005, Carlos Mesa attempted to resign in January 2005, but his offer was refused by Congress. |
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| He gave Qarase an ultimatum date of 4 December to accede to these demands or to resign from his post. |
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| He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion. |
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| The sleaze-ridden government was forced to resign and a general election was announced. |
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| However, before this bill was to be passed, Palmerston was forced to resign on another issue. |
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| The official account of events claims that Richard voluntarily agreed to resign his crown to Henry on 29 September. |
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| Bertie Ahern was forced to resign as the Irish Republic's Taoiseach yesterday because of a deepening scandal about his financial affairs. |
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| He must either resign or tell us who is preventing him from doing his job. |
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| Gates emerged from the first week of hearings bearing only a few scratches.... He even vowed to resign if illegal activity occurred on his watch. |
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| Hanley was forced to come out of the closet and resign all at once. |
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| This second successive failure to qualify prompted Craig Brown to resign from his position after the final qualifying match. |
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| The prime minister and nominal head of the AK party, Ahmet Davutoglu, had promised to resign if he failed to obtain a simple parliamentary majority. |
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| On 17 November 2014, it was announced that Alastair Lyons would resign from his position as chairman of Serco. |
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| The post recounted the story of a student who had allegedly been forced to resign from a military academy in order to leave room for another applicant amid accusations of nepotism. |
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| The Board ordered the Members to resign as their lack of judgement and clear disregard for the RCMP's values repudiated essential elements of the employment relationship. |
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| Can you imagine in Europe having a prime minister or a president who would leave the Houses of Parliament by the back door to hide behind another nationality in Japan, and who would resign by fax? |
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| It will have to resign itself to importing to make up for the difference and that, in its view, would expose it to a strategic dependence on Western exporters. |
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| The appeals came as three Tory MPs were ordered to resign from the right-wing Monday Club. |
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| Just because the former minister was forced to resign in disgrace does not mean that the House should not see this alleged book or a list of ministerial permits granted. |
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| One of the first hitches in the Thanet campaign was the expenses scandal that forced Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson to resign as a parliamentary candidate in nearby Folkestone. |
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| You must resign yourself to 300 pages of tortured angst. |
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| If the same happened after the new Knesset is sworn in, the turpitude would require him to resign from the new Knesset and wait till the next elections four or more years away. |
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| Once the nullity of the existential possibilities is recognized, humans cannot but resign themselves to Being, which, in one of its new manifestations in the world or beyond it, conducts them to a new epoch. |
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| It is the first tangible sign that Cameron will face an internal battle if he feels compelled to ask Fox to resign because of his links with Adam Werritty, his close friend and fixer. |
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| Losing my temper with Alastair Campbell in the aftermath of the 2010 election: he argued it was not in the national interest for Gordon Brown to resign immediately. |
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| Like most feudal offices, earldoms were inherited, but the kings frequently asked earls to resign or exchange earldoms. |
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| Although Gustav Humbert, boss of Airbus, offered to resign as soon as the delays were made public, Noël Forgeard, the co-chief executive of EADS responsible for Airbus, adamantly refused to go. |
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| Now, in a panic, you resign yourselves to action. |
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| I am interested in invoking questions on the human condition because there is a tendency in our lives today to resign ourselves to an inauthentic life experience that is pressurised by the social determinism of our times. |
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| Mr Rodgers, one of seven unionists to resign their seats earlier this week, said there was growing anger within loyalism at the police. |
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| From your goal, Sir, you understood better than anybody that the cost of true democracy is always high and that, as José Marti said, one must either resign oneself to living without it or make up one's mind to pay the price. |
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| The complainant alleged that upon learning that he had become inebriated during a work-related social gathering, his employer forced him to resign. |
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| It is time for these unelected members of the Liberal leader's dream team, senators like Tommy Banks, to go back to Alberta, resign, and let the people of Alberta elect real senators to do the job for them. |
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| Her changing religious convictions led her to resign her pastorate in July 1854, and shortly thereafter she became a Unitarian minister and served a church in Elizabeth, New Jersey. |
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| It was also pointed out that pressures had been placed on the members of the Polish Unified corkers' Party who belonged to Solidarity to resign from their trade union organisation. |
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| The King was slow to agree, and Asquith and his cabinet informed him they would resign if he did not make the commitment. |
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| Over the years the Albiazules have consistently been overshadowed by their more powerful neighbours and have had to resign themselves to a role as one of the region's makeweights. |
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| Twenty clubs agreed to resign from the Rugby Football Union, but Dewsbury felt unable to comply with the decision. |
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| Failing health forced him to resign in November 1892, handing his position over to John Thompson, the young Cabinet minister whom Abbott had always felt should have succeeded Macdonald. |
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| You have to resign yourself to not being able to achieve the objectives you have set for your life and not being able to live life as fully as most of the people around you. |
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| I also have a few words for the leaders and minions of the regime: we will never resign ourselves to the ignominy of surrendering to your repressive dictatorship, even if it will cost us our lives. |
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| Thus, in the future, Russian confectioners either have to resign themselves to making the cheapest goods possible, or else they will have to find way to keep prices in check while maintaining quality. |
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| On 15 August 2007, McConnell announced his intention to resign as Scottish Labour leader. |
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| Even though the AOR did not seek the Member's dismissal from the Force, the Board found that the Member had acted with a degree of premeditation and with the intent to punish the prisoner, and ordered him to resign. |
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| If I consider only these exalted motives, I must resign my canonry and devote myself to the care of the schools and to the training of the schoolmasters who direct them. |
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| Formerly, many, but not all, Knights elevated to the senior Order would resign from the Order of the Thistle. |
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| Some have threatened to resign and claim constructive dismissal if I make the pay cut and said that they would be sure to win their case. |
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| The governments tried to be predictable in their succession plan for Mr Duisenberg, ordaining that, halfway through his eight-year term, he would resign in favour of Jean-Claude Trichet of the Banque de France. |
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| When last he was obliged to resign from the government, he expressed a wish to eschew the whirligig of Westminster for the haven of his Hartlepool constituency. |
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| Entire teams can resign en bloc on a trifle. |
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| His father, Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, was grandfather to Euphemia II, Countess of Ross and persuaded her to resign her rights to his son. |
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| In 2004, the Minister of Education, Liliana Coli?, was forced to resign after ordering schools to stop teaching the Darwinian theory of evolution if the creationist ideas were not also part of the school curricula. |
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| Each director can be dismissed at any time by the general shareholders' meeting, and can resign at any time by giving notice to the board of directors. |
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| Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh was forced to resign after his cabinet came under fire for its slow response to the economic crisis. |
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| While the member claimed that he was in a state of shock when initially trying to conceal his activities, the Board concluded that he had been deceptive and that it was one of its reasons for ordering him to resign. |
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| The Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh, 14 March 2005, vowed to resign at the end of the year if by that time corruption still plagues the taxation and regulation of the garment industry. |
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| It is time for the rat packer to pack it in and resign. |
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| Ahern's announcement that he will resign within weeks came after many months of revelations and accusations centring on up to a dozen mini-scandals and unsatisfactorily explained financial transactions. |
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| On 22 September, the former chancellor Nigel Lawson called on Carney to resign and accused him of being a doom-monger before and after the referendum. |
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| It is established practice that judges who are no longer active sitting judges should resign from the Network to be replaced by active sitting judges. |
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| It can subsequently force the Commission as a body to resign by adopting a motion of censure. |
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| Fianna Fail's Mr Fixit, PJ Mara, was forced to resign as the boss of the party's Nice II campaign. |
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| After the result was declared, Cameron announced that he would resign by October. |
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| Peel was forced to resign as prime minister on 29 June, and the Whig leader, Lord John Russell, assumed the seals of office. |
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| The Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk also announced he would resign over Panama Papers leaks. |
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| There were calls for Foster to resign as First Minister after the scandal broke. |
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| Iain Gray announced his intention to resign as leader of the Labour group of MSPs that autumn. |
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| Foster refused to resign or step aside during any inquiry into her role in the scheme, which led McGuinness to resign. |
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| At the meeting, they both claimed they would resign if their demands were not met. |
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| Loyalists hoped the bombings would force O'Neill to resign and bring an end to any concessions to nationalists. |
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| Both Kawamoto and Irimajiri shared a friendly rivalry within Honda, and Irimajiri would resign in 1992 due to health issues. |
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| The statutes shall lay down the procedures and conditions for exercising the right to resign and lay down the time within which repayment shall be made, which may not exceed three years. |
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| From Lyons, Anselm wrote to Urban, requesting that he be permitted to resign his office. |
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| I must fain resign all poetic disportings of the fancy, and pursue my narrative in humble prose. |
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| A cabinet member may be forced to resign simply for opposing one aspect of a government's agenda, even though they agreed with the majority of other proposals. |
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| Jones announced on 13 May 2011, the day he ceased being Deputy First Minister, that he would resign as leader of Plaid Cymru within the first half of the Assembly term. |
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| In 2000, he announced he would resign the following year, due to illness. |
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| However, in a popular uprising in 2009, president Marc Ravalomanana was made to resign and presidential power was transferred in March 2009 to Andry Rajoelina. |
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| Asquith also saw Bonar Law who confirmed that he would resign if Asquith failed to implement the War Council agreement as discussed only the day before. |
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| The condition was at first thought more serious than it turned out to be, and he announced that he would resign as Prime Minister as soon as a successor was appointed. |
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| On 10 May 2007, during a speech at the Trimdon Labour Club, Blair announced his intention to resign as both Labour Party leader and Prime Minister. |
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| The Chiltern Hundreds is usually used alternately with the Manor of Northstead, which makes it possible for two members to resign at the same time. |
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| In 1624 a resolution was passed that Members of Parliament were given a trust to represent their constituencies and therefore were not at liberty to resign them. |
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| With no independent power base Wallace, whose prestige had always been based on the success of his army, had little choice but to resign as Guardian after Falkirk. |
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| A FORMER city councillor has called on Merthyr Tydfil politicians to resign for pressing ahead with plans to destroy South Wales' Coventry Playground. |
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| In October 1914, Lord Fisher was recalled as First Sea Lord, after Prince Louis of Battenberg had been forced to resign because of his German name. |
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| The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette last week stopped just short of joining the Jefferson County Republican Committee in demanding that Dennis Milligan resign as state treasurer. |
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| When Alexander was 13, Philip began to search for a tutor, and considered such academics as Isocrates and Speusippus, the latter offering to resign to take up the post. |
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| Nirj Deva, Member of the European Parliament for South East England, had called for Eurostar chief executive Richard Brown to resign over the incidents. |
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| Churchill was still keen for a trip to Moscow, and threatened to resign, provoking a crisis in the Cabinet when Lord Salisbury threatened to resign if Churchill had his way. |
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| Although not entirely without ability, Richard had no power base in either Parliament or the Army, and was forced to resign in May 1659, ending the Protectorate. |
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| The club have been forced to resign their fourth team after having problems finding a ground this season following a double-booking by Kirklees Council. |
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| Less than two weeks after Wellington made these remarks, on 15 November 1830 he was forced to resign after he was defeated in a motion of no confidence. |
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| Macmillan threatened to resign if force was not used against Nasser. |
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| Arthur Balfour had served as Prime Minister from 1902 until 5 December 1905, when he chose to resign over growing unpopularity, instead of calling a general election. |
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| Regional disputes, however, quickly compelled Qatar to resign and declare independence from the coalition which would eventually evolve into the United Arab Emirates. |
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| Mossack Fonseca decided 6 September to resign from Makhlouf's companies. |
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| Reith asked him if he wished to take on the chief conductorship, and if so whether he would resign as director of music or occupy both posts simultaneously. |
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| His ultimate decision to resign came after a lengthy lecture on machine guns, which was interfering with his plans for dinner with a particularly attractive young lady. |
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| Owain was to render homage and fealty to the King, and resign Tegeingle and Rhuddlan to Chester, and restore Cadwaladr to his possessions in Gwynedd. |
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| She claims that her personal problems played no influence upon her decision to resign. |
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| Corbyn backed calls for May to resign, but said she should be removed by voters. |
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| On 10 June, a survey of 1,500 ConservativeHome readers found that almost two thirds of Conservative Party members wanted Theresa May to resign. |
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| A poor start the following season, combined with falling attendances, saw Bentley resign, and he was replaced by Harry Gregg. |
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| Public outrage over the scandal eventually forced him to resign. |
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| The Kings Bay Affair, caused by the 1962 accident killing 21 workers, forced Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet to resign. |
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| Ministers, junior ministers and parliamentary private secretaries who vote against the whips' instructions usually resign. |
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| He was reluctant to resign, reasoning that he was only 68, much younger than either Palmerston or Russell at the end of their premierships. |
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| The parliament is often rigorous in holding the government accountable, government ministers are frequently interpellated and forced to resign. |
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| Once appointed, justices serve until retirement at the age of 70, unless they resign, or are removed from office. |
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| Pitt, however, took the unprecedented step of refusing to resign, despite this defeat. |
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| Lord North again requested that he also be allowed to resign, but he stayed in office at George III's insistence. |
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| Faced with opposition to his religious reform policies from both the King and the British public, Pitt threatened to resign. |
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| This election result prompted the leader of the three main opposition parties to resign. |
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| On a vote of no confidence, the Folketing may force a single minister or the entire government to resign. |
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| On 10 September 2015 Peter Robinson stepped down as First Minister, although he did not officially resign. |
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| By the end of April 1804, Addington, who had lost his parliamentary support, had decided to resign. |
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| Some constitutions, however, do not allow the option of parliamentary dissolution but rather require the government to be dissolved or to resign. |
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