verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
resign from a position
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She has resigned from her position as department secretary.
resign (from) a post (= leave it )
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John Sargent has resigned his post as chairman.
resign yourself to/accept your fate
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I had no choice but to resign myself to my fate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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He eventually resigned as ordinary in November 1727.
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Smith, admitting he had an unreported business relationship with the department store owner, resigned as junior minister for Northern Ireland.
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Tony Millar resigned as executive chairman of Albert Fisher.
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He resigned as Foreign Minister in late October, and secretarial staff got as far as clearing out his offices.
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Mr Takeshita was damaged by the scandal and had to resign as prime minister.
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In 1846 Edward Mayhew resigned as anatomical teacher at the College.
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Chairman Sam Smith has since resigned as have three non-executive directors.
over
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The party's headquarters in Edinburgh said yesterday that only four people had resigned over the decision to support the Government.
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Four senior officials in the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries were dismissed or resigned over their role in granting him entry.
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But it is a victory for the environment secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who had threatened to resign over the issue.
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Another casualty was Gordon Ashworth, a senior aide to Peterson, who resigned over money paid to redecorate his house.
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Were President Husak to resign over the weekend and a new government be formed, the presidential issue could be deferred.
recently
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The postman was taken on in September 1990 and resigned recently .
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Recently resigned City Manager Michael Brown called them all but unmanageable.
■ NOUN
board
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Now that Hearts have decided to remain at a re-developed Tynecastle, Gulliver has resigned from the board .
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The 80-year-old Kaplan resigned from the museum board May 8.
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Unfortunately, however, I found it necessary to resign from the board of Junior Tennis Centres.
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Brucker said he and his supporters had wanted a voice on the board since September, when trustee Jo Ann Koplin resigned .
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With Bulstrode resigned from the hospital board , Dorothea summons Lydgate for advice and also to ascertain the truth.
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She said the brothers would not receive additional severance for resigning from the board .
cabinet
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The large number of Cabinet ministers who have resigned or been dismissed have not been a focus for dissent.
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When the legislature votes no confidence in the cabinet or defeats it on a major bill, the cabinet usually resigns .
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On 9 January 1986 Heseltine dramatically walked out of a full Cabinet and resigned in the full glare of televisual attention.
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To resolve matters, the new Cabinet resigned on the morning of June 29 and was immediately reappointed in its entirety.
chairman
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Tony Millar resigned as executive chairman of Albert Fisher.
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In 1953, after Kennelly was returned to office and Stevenson had his unfortunate encounter with Eisenhower, Gill resigned as chairman .
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Lukyanov resigned as Supreme Soviet chairman on Aug. 26 and was arrested on Aug. 29.
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Mr Righton resigned as Vice Chairman of the school's Govenors, shortly after his arrest.
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David Coleridge announced that he will resign as chairman of Lloyd's at the end of the year.
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He resigned as chairman after an external audit criticised the way Lauda Air handled foreign currency transactions.
commission
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In 1946, within a year of his fiftieth birthday, his father had resigned his commission from the army.
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He joined the army in 1883 at the age of 18, but dramatically resigned his commission when the Dreyfus affair broke.
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Many officers resigned their commissions to take up jobs with the new company.
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As you know, my last posting before I resigned my commission was at Nuremberg from November 1945 to October 1946.
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He also conceded that a legal framework could be established allowing officers to resign their commissions .
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He chose Mary Ann, resigned his commission and together they returned to Sydney in 1814.
decision
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There were bitter recriminations within the party about who was to blame for her decision to resign .
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Consideration for his successor was partly responsible for his decision to resign short of the seven-year goal, he said.
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Nyerere's reputation as an individual remains high and was reinforced by his decision to resign as president in late 1985.
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He succeeded Corneliu Coposu, who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post.
director
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The commission found him guilty, and he and a fellow director were forced to resign .
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By 1996 the council had expanded to only 58 member companies, and its original executive director had resigned .
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But the three directors who resigned have not been charged.
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No wonder, then, that when he finally told his board, the directors resigned on the spot.
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The director of prisons resigned today.
fact
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About three weeks later, Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay.
fate
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I resigned myself to my fate .
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Santa Anna then resigned himself to his fate .
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He was resigned to his own fate .
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Tyndale was always aware of and resigned to his likely fate .
government
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New transitional government Calfa's federal government resigned on June 26.
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But the system is so unstable that governments have resigned , on average, once per year throughout the period.
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Heath was apprehensive about it as he forced the Stormont government to resign and ended the parliament of Northern Ireland.
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He added that if the referendum rejected the programme the government would have to resign .
job
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I've resigned from my job because I can't cope.
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You have probably resigned from more jobs than you have been fired from.
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Three journalists even asked if they could resign their jobs and join us.
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So he simply resigned his job , sold up and bought air tickets for all the family.
member
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Resignation Any member may resign by giving written notice to the council, accompanied by his certificate of membership.
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By 1976, members were resigning Breira in droves.
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During last year 1,750 members resigned compared with 489 a year earlier.
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The other two board members who resigned this year were attorneys Joanne Sakai and Jeff Adachi.
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These actions forced Augustine to join a number of former board members in resigning .
minister
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Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign .
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Binyamin Begin, the science minister and son of the former prime minister, resigned in protest.
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The large number of Cabinet ministers who have resigned or been dismissed have not been a focus for dissent.
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If the new parliament is hung, does the Prime Minister have to resign ?
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In Prague, where one Prime Minister has already resigned , his successor has been awarded only conditional co-operation by the opposition.
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Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya resigns in protest at police brutality during pro-democracy demonstrations.
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Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigned in February.
month
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Nixon resigned less than a month after the film was released.
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But with a telling codicil detailing in full what his compensation entitlement would be if he should happen to resign within six months .
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Mr Mike Thayer, director of the newly-created Western Region, resigned last month .
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Uvarov's position as education minister became untenable and he resigned six months later.
office
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He resigned his office but was retained on the council when he announced his reversion to Roman Catholicism.
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Symington first would resign from office .
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The charges would not have been laid if Anwar had accepted a deal, resigned from office and gone abroad.
party
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It had now been over a year since the opposition parties had resigned from parliament en masse in protest.
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Three other ministers from his Samata party also resigned .
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Meanwhile in Vienna three of the six Freedom party ministers have resigned or been sacked.
position
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The club has officially confirmed the appointment nineteen days after Liam Brady resigned the position .
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November, 1976 Cauthorn resigns his council position to take a job in Florida.
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This time it looks serious and if he is forced to resign then my own position could be in jeopardy.
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On May 22, as the group was reaching agreement, he quietly resigned his position .
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Mr Cox also resigned his position on the board.
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Igor Kasatonov resigned from his position as commander of the Black Sea Fleet.
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Similarly, a director of a large company resigned his position after ten years, because he wanted new challenges.
post
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Iliescu resigned his party posts following his assumption of the presidency and asked Roman to form a government.
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Mr Chittenden resigned from his post as Chester's town crier last year.
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Mobbs had resigned from his elected post as Dean.
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Bourne resigned his post over a controversy involving a prescription he wrote for a member of his staff.
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Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22, accusing the government of leading the country to disaster.
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From the wait-and-negotiate camp, Secretary of State Vance resigned his post in protest.
presidency
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Before departing for Puebla, Santa Anna also resigned the presidency and supreme command of the army.
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At this he became more hostile and told me he was thinking of resigning the Vice Presidency .
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In the end, Gerald R.. Ford pardoned Nixon after he resigned the presidency in disgrace.
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He resigned his presidency one year and seven months into his second term.
president
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Nixon was the first President to resign in mid-term.
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Barry Cox, 53 years old, chief executive officer and president , resigned to pursue other interests.
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That same day the left-leaning Ha'aretz newspaper declared that the president should resign immediately.
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Richard Nixon, the only president forced to resign to avoid impeachment, haunts the Republican party yet.
protest
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Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya resigns in protest at police brutality during pro-democracy demonstrations.
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Binyamin Begin, the science minister and son of the former prime minister, resigned in protest .
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Abdallah resigned in protest on Jan. 18.
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Some deacons and elders have privately told their ministers that they plan to resign in protest if it passes.
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Mr Blanc resigned in protest at the refusal to privatise the airline.
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Mr Getchell resigned in protest and was replaced by Mr Oskar Tollefson.
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From the wait-and-negotiate camp, Secretary of State Vance resigned his post in protest .
seat
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On the defensive, Dole resigned his Kansas Senate seat on June 11.
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He tried to shake up the race by resigning his Senate seat and shedding his tie.
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He intended to resign his seat if he won the election.
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Garcia resigned his seat in January 1990, shortly before the two were sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
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Vice chairman Alan Noble resigned his seat on the board because of business commitments, but that wasn't the last of him.
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He resigned his South Dorset seat at the 1987 general election.
senate
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On the defensive, Dole resigned his Kansas Senate seat on June 11.
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That balcony mirrors the one Dole gave up last year when he resigned from the Senate to run for president.
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He tried to shake up the race by resigning his Senate seat and shedding his tie.
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If that happens, McCain will have to resign from the Senate .
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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
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Care tutor Miss Corkhill, of Darlington, was suspended and resigned earlier this week .
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Former science minister Binyamin Begin, who resigned the post this week because of the Hebron pullout, explicitly made that argument.
year
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Stan Storton, Telford's manager, has resigned after eight years for family reasons.
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Combs resigned earlier this year to work as state director for U. S. Sen.
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John Chalcraft resigned after 40 years , surviving until 1985.
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The other two board members who resigned this year were attorneys Joanne Sakai and Jeff Adachi.
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York is resigning after 14 years with the automaker.
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He resigned his presidency one year and seven months into his second term.
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Mr Rod Perriman, the former chief inspector, resigned last year because senior inspectors were upset about the plans.
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The orchestra also saw its five top administrators resign last year , including executive director Michael Tiknis.
■ VERB
ask
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On the Lewinsky lies, we asked him to resign .
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Less than a week after Rice and the rest of the curriculum committee made its recommendation, Rice was asked to resign .
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Gbedemah and Botsio were asked to resign .
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He was asked to resign after pressing for cuts in retirement benefits paid out to employees of the public sector.
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At a long meeting of board members on Monday, Burns was asked to resign and refused.
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If they are unhappy with me not wanting to open the meetings, they should ask me to resign .
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The president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, was reported to have left office after being asked to resign .
decide
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You may be looking for work because you lost your job or decided to resign during your illness.
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He decided to resign , not as a tactical manoeuvre, but because he did not have sufficient support to carry on.
force
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Indeed, though the Cabinet had agreed the plan in December Hoare was forced to resign , and replaced by Eden.
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Several White House aides have already been forced to resign because of the travel office and Whitewater.
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The commission found him guilty, and he and a fellow director were forced to resign .
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Two strikes occurred, and two deans were forced to resign within the Faculty of Engineering.
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The agreement leaked out and Inoue was forced to resign in July 1887.
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Clark was forced to resign June 18 after eight years as city manager.
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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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The reprimand stops just short of a vote of censure, which would have forced Gingrich to resign as speaker.
intend
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He intended to resign his seat if he won the election.
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He intended to resign his post as physician to the Infirmary the following February and to leave in March.
refuse
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Dini yesterday refused to resign , saying he had already done so two weeks ago.
threaten
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Castor, a prominent Socialist deputy, threatened to resign from the party.
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It was also opposed by music director Yoav Talmi, who threatened to resign if any orchestra members were fired.
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He's threatened to resign if defeated.
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But it is a victory for the environment secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who had threatened to resign over the issue.
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Finally, he got his way by threatening to resign .
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I did not threaten to resign but I did make it clear that I would not endorse changes I could not justify.
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More than 1,000 priests had threatened to resign if the change went through.
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Some weeks later there were headlines in the newspapers saying that I threatened to resign .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be resigned to (doing) sth
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BAshley, cynical beyond her 10 years, is resigned to more disappointment.
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Even the players are resigned to the prospect of starting their Premier League campaign without him.
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He is resigned to public indifference to the benefits of efficiency, as well as to the effects of greenhouse gases.
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He was resigned to his own fate.
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Most women are resigned to this and some use their martyrdom to manipulate their men.
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Opponents of the bill said they are resigned to its passage in the House.
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She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it.
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They are resigned to this battle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I wanted to resign , but my boss persuaded me to stay.
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Nixon was the first US President to resign before the end of his term of office.
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Roberts replaces Jacob Winters, who resigned from the firm last month.
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She resigned from the board after profits fell by a further 3%.
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The following years, he resigned as chairman of the committee.
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The manager was forced to resign his post after allegations of corruption.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Former science minister Binyamin Begin, who resigned the post this week because of the Hebron pullout, explicitly made that argument.
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He resigned from the party on 25 September 1939.
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He will resign if he is forced to accept an unrealistic budget he can not commit to.
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In a statement issued on March 19 Hekmatyar called on Najibullah to resign immediately.
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Mr Cox also resigned his position on the board.
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Oedipus of course resigned the throne.