RESIGN


Meaning of RESIGN in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

resign from a position

She has resigned from her position as department secretary.

resign (from) a post (= leave it )

John Sargent has resigned his post as chairman.

resign yourself to/accept your fate

I had no choice but to resign myself to my fate.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

He eventually resigned as ordinary in November 1727.

Smith, admitting he had an unreported business relationship with the department store owner, resigned as junior minister for Northern Ireland.

Tony Millar resigned as executive chairman of Albert Fisher.

He resigned as Foreign Minister in late October, and secretarial staff got as far as clearing out his offices.

Mr Takeshita was damaged by the scandal and had to resign as prime minister.

In 1846 Edward Mayhew resigned as anatomical teacher at the College.

Chairman Sam Smith has since resigned as have three non-executive directors.

over

The party's headquarters in Edinburgh said yesterday that only four people had resigned over the decision to support the Government.

Four senior officials in the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries were dismissed or resigned over their role in granting him entry.

But it is a victory for the environment secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who had threatened to resign over the issue.

Another casualty was Gordon Ashworth, a senior aide to Peterson, who resigned over money paid to redecorate his house.

Were President Husak to resign over the weekend and a new government be formed, the presidential issue could be deferred.

recently

The postman was taken on in September 1990 and resigned recently .

Recently resigned City Manager Michael Brown called them all but unmanageable.

■ NOUN

board

Now that Hearts have decided to remain at a re-developed Tynecastle, Gulliver has resigned from the board .

The 80-year-old Kaplan resigned from the museum board May 8.

Unfortunately, however, I found it necessary to resign from the board of Junior Tennis Centres.

Brucker said he and his supporters had wanted a voice on the board since September, when trustee Jo Ann Koplin resigned .

With Bulstrode resigned from the hospital board , Dorothea summons Lydgate for advice and also to ascertain the truth.

She said the brothers would not receive additional severance for resigning from the board .

cabinet

The large number of Cabinet ministers who have resigned or been dismissed have not been a focus for dissent.

When the legislature votes no confidence in the cabinet or defeats it on a major bill, the cabinet usually resigns .

On 9 January 1986 Heseltine dramatically walked out of a full Cabinet and resigned in the full glare of televisual attention.

To resolve matters, the new Cabinet resigned on the morning of June 29 and was immediately reappointed in its entirety.

chairman

Tony Millar resigned as executive chairman of Albert Fisher.

In 1953, after Kennelly was returned to office and Stevenson had his unfortunate encounter with Eisenhower, Gill resigned as chairman .

Lukyanov resigned as Supreme Soviet chairman on Aug. 26 and was arrested on Aug. 29.

Mr Righton resigned as Vice Chairman of the school's Govenors, shortly after his arrest.

David Coleridge announced that he will resign as chairman of Lloyd's at the end of the year.

He resigned as chairman after an external audit criticised the way Lauda Air handled foreign currency transactions.

commission

In 1946, within a year of his fiftieth birthday, his father had resigned his commission from the army.

He joined the army in 1883 at the age of 18, but dramatically resigned his commission when the Dreyfus affair broke.

Many officers resigned their commissions to take up jobs with the new company.

As you know, my last posting before I resigned my commission was at Nuremberg from November 1945 to October 1946.

He also conceded that a legal framework could be established allowing officers to resign their commissions .

He chose Mary Ann, resigned his commission and together they returned to Sydney in 1814.

decision

There were bitter recriminations within the party about who was to blame for her decision to resign .

Consideration for his successor was partly responsible for his decision to resign short of the seven-year goal, he said.

Nyerere's reputation as an individual remains high and was reinforced by his decision to resign as president in late 1985.

He succeeded Corneliu Coposu, who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post.

director

The commission found him guilty, and he and a fellow director were forced to resign .

By 1996 the council had expanded to only 58 member companies, and its original executive director had resigned .

But the three directors who resigned have not been charged.

No wonder, then, that when he finally told his board, the directors resigned on the spot.

The director of prisons resigned today.

fact

About three weeks later, Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay.

fate

I resigned myself to my fate .

Santa Anna then resigned himself to his fate .

He was resigned to his own fate .

Tyndale was always aware of and resigned to his likely fate .

government

New transitional government Calfa's federal government resigned on June 26.

But the system is so unstable that governments have resigned , on average, once per year throughout the period.

Heath was apprehensive about it as he forced the Stormont government to resign and ended the parliament of Northern Ireland.

He added that if the referendum rejected the programme the government would have to resign .

job

I've resigned from my job because I can't cope.

You have probably resigned from more jobs than you have been fired from.

Three journalists even asked if they could resign their jobs and join us.

So he simply resigned his job , sold up and bought air tickets for all the family.

member

Resignation Any member may resign by giving written notice to the council, accompanied by his certificate of membership.

By 1976, members were resigning Breira in droves.

During last year 1,750 members resigned compared with 489 a year earlier.

The other two board members who resigned this year were attorneys Joanne Sakai and Jeff Adachi.

These actions forced Augustine to join a number of former board members in resigning .

minister

Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign .

Binyamin Begin, the science minister and son of the former prime minister, resigned in protest.

The large number of Cabinet ministers who have resigned or been dismissed have not been a focus for dissent.

If the new parliament is hung, does the Prime Minister have to resign ?

In Prague, where one Prime Minister has already resigned , his successor has been awarded only conditional co-operation by the opposition.

Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya resigns in protest at police brutality during pro-democracy demonstrations.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigned in February.

month

Nixon resigned less than a month after the film was released.

But with a telling codicil detailing in full what his compensation entitlement would be if he should happen to resign within six months .

Mr Mike Thayer, director of the newly-created Western Region, resigned last month .

Uvarov's position as education minister became untenable and he resigned six months later.

office

He resigned his office but was retained on the council when he announced his reversion to Roman Catholicism.

Symington first would resign from office .

The charges would not have been laid if Anwar had accepted a deal, resigned from office and gone abroad.

party

It had now been over a year since the opposition parties had resigned from parliament en masse in protest.

Three other ministers from his Samata party also resigned .

Meanwhile in Vienna three of the six Freedom party ministers have resigned or been sacked.

position

The club has officially confirmed the appointment nineteen days after Liam Brady resigned the position .

November, 1976 Cauthorn resigns his council position to take a job in Florida.

This time it looks serious and if he is forced to resign then my own position could be in jeopardy.

On May 22, as the group was reaching agreement, he quietly resigned his position .

Mr Cox also resigned his position on the board.

Igor Kasatonov resigned from his position as commander of the Black Sea Fleet.

Similarly, a director of a large company resigned his position after ten years, because he wanted new challenges.

post

Iliescu resigned his party posts following his assumption of the presidency and asked Roman to form a government.

Mr Chittenden resigned from his post as Chester's town crier last year.

Mobbs had resigned from his elected post as Dean.

Bourne resigned his post over a controversy involving a prescription he wrote for a member of his staff.

Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22, accusing the government of leading the country to disaster.

From the wait-and-negotiate camp, Secretary of State Vance resigned his post in protest.

presidency

Before departing for Puebla, Santa Anna also resigned the presidency and supreme command of the army.

At this he became more hostile and told me he was thinking of resigning the Vice Presidency .

In the end, Gerald R.. Ford pardoned Nixon after he resigned the presidency in disgrace.

He resigned his presidency one year and seven months into his second term.

president

Nixon was the first President to resign in mid-term.

Barry Cox, 53 years old, chief executive officer and president , resigned to pursue other interests.

That same day the left-leaning Ha'aretz newspaper declared that the president should resign immediately.

Richard Nixon, the only president forced to resign to avoid impeachment, haunts the Republican party yet.

protest

Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya resigns in protest at police brutality during pro-democracy demonstrations.

Binyamin Begin, the science minister and son of the former prime minister, resigned in protest .

Abdallah resigned in protest on Jan. 18.

Some deacons and elders have privately told their ministers that they plan to resign in protest if it passes.

Mr Blanc resigned in protest at the refusal to privatise the airline.

Mr Getchell resigned in protest and was replaced by Mr Oskar Tollefson.

From the wait-and-negotiate camp, Secretary of State Vance resigned his post in protest .

seat

On the defensive, Dole resigned his Kansas Senate seat on June 11.

He tried to shake up the race by resigning his Senate seat and shedding his tie.

He intended to resign his seat if he won the election.

Garcia resigned his seat in January 1990, shortly before the two were sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

Vice chairman Alan Noble resigned his seat on the board because of business commitments, but that wasn't the last of him.

He resigned his South Dorset seat at the 1987 general election.

senate

On the defensive, Dole resigned his Kansas Senate seat on June 11.

That balcony mirrors the one Dole gave up last year when he resigned from the Senate to run for president.

He tried to shake up the race by resigning his Senate seat and shedding his tie.

If that happens, McCain will have to resign from the Senate .

Bob Dole of Kansas had been a co-sponsor before resigning from the Senate this month to become a full-time Republican presidential candidate.

week

Care tutor Miss Corkhill, of Darlington, was suspended and resigned earlier this week .

Former science minister Binyamin Begin, who resigned the post this week because of the Hebron pullout, explicitly made that argument.

year

Stan Storton, Telford's manager, has resigned after eight years for family reasons.

Combs resigned earlier this year to work as state director for U. S. Sen.

John Chalcraft resigned after 40 years , surviving until 1985.

The other two board members who resigned this year were attorneys Joanne Sakai and Jeff Adachi.

York is resigning after 14 years with the automaker.

He resigned his presidency one year and seven months into his second term.

Mr Rod Perriman, the former chief inspector, resigned last year because senior inspectors were upset about the plans.

The orchestra also saw its five top administrators resign last year , including executive director Michael Tiknis.

■ VERB

ask

On the Lewinsky lies, we asked him to resign .

Less than a week after Rice and the rest of the curriculum committee made its recommendation, Rice was asked to resign .

Gbedemah and Botsio were asked to resign .

He was asked to resign after pressing for cuts in retirement benefits paid out to employees of the public sector.

At a long meeting of board members on Monday, Burns was asked to resign and refused.

If they are unhappy with me not wanting to open the meetings, they should ask me to resign .

The president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, was reported to have left office after being asked to resign .

decide

You may be looking for work because you lost your job or decided to resign during your illness.

He decided to resign , not as a tactical manoeuvre, but because he did not have sufficient support to carry on.

force

Indeed, though the Cabinet had agreed the plan in December Hoare was forced to resign , and replaced by Eden.

Several White House aides have already been forced to resign because of the travel office and Whitewater.

The commission found him guilty, and he and a fellow director were forced to resign .

Two strikes occurred, and two deans were forced to resign within the Faculty of Engineering.

The agreement leaked out and Inoue was forced to resign in July 1887.

Clark was forced to resign June 18 after eight years as city manager.

In December another presidential adviser, Carlos Spadona, had been forced to resign for his involvement in the case.

The reprimand stops just short of a vote of censure, which would have forced Gingrich to resign as speaker.

intend

He intended to resign his seat if he won the election.

He intended to resign his post as physician to the Infirmary the following February and to leave in March.

refuse

Dini yesterday refused to resign , saying he had already done so two weeks ago.

threaten

Castor, a prominent Socialist deputy, threatened to resign from the party.

It was also opposed by music director Yoav Talmi, who threatened to resign if any orchestra members were fired.

He's threatened to resign if defeated.

But it is a victory for the environment secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who had threatened to resign over the issue.

Finally, he got his way by threatening to resign .

I did not threaten to resign but I did make it clear that I would not endorse changes I could not justify.

More than 1,000 priests had threatened to resign if the change went through.

Some weeks later there were headlines in the newspapers saying that I threatened to resign .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be resigned to (doing) sth

BAshley, cynical beyond her 10 years, is resigned to more disappointment.

Even the players are resigned to the prospect of starting their Premier League campaign without him.

He is resigned to public indifference to the benefits of efficiency, as well as to the effects of greenhouse gases.

He was resigned to his own fate.

Most women are resigned to this and some use their martyrdom to manipulate their men.

Opponents of the bill said they are resigned to its passage in the House.

She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it.

They are resigned to this battle.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I wanted to resign , but my boss persuaded me to stay.

Nixon was the first US President to resign before the end of his term of office.

Roberts replaces Jacob Winters, who resigned from the firm last month.

She resigned from the board after profits fell by a further 3%.

The following years, he resigned as chairman of the committee.

The manager was forced to resign his post after allegations of corruption.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Former science minister Binyamin Begin, who resigned the post this week because of the Hebron pullout, explicitly made that argument.

He resigned from the party on 25 September 1939.

He will resign if he is forced to accept an unrealistic budget he can not commit to.

In a statement issued on March 19 Hekmatyar called on Najibullah to resign immediately.

Mr Cox also resigned his position on the board.

Oedipus of course resigned the throne.

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