Sentences with phrase «act by resigning»

Not exact matches

Under pressure to resign as leader of a country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, Naoto Kan's last act in August 2011 was to transform Japan's energy policy.

Coincidentally, the school resource officer who recommended that Cruz be «Baker Acted» was Scot Peterson — the same Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who resigned amid accusations he failed to respond to the shooting by staying outside the building where the killings occurred.

Update: Both Starr and McCaw have since departed from Baylor, Starr doing so on June 1 by resigning from his reassigned chancellor position and McCaw resigning on May 30 after the hiring of Jim Grobe as acting head coach.

He acted honourably by sticking to his pledge to resign if the government backed Heathrow expansion.

«We were just joking in our office that everyone on the second floor should resign and become a volunteer paid by the campaign, because we don't know of any laws that prohibit volunteers from acting on behalf of an elected official,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

By January 3, 1965, the new acting chancellor, Martin Meyerson (who had replaced the previous resigned Edward Strong), established provisional rules for political activity on the Berkeley campus.

Mr. Silver, who resigned on Monday as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges in January, was accused of essentially facilitating the harassment by not acting forcefully to prevent Mr. Lopez's behavior as leader of the Assembly, which was also named as a defendant in one of the lawsuits.

LO: I think if a prime minister resigns and by implication accepts responsibility for it, that's a pretty considerable act of contrition.

Robert Troiano, the Nassau County acting commissioner for traffic and parking violations, resigned Sunday night, weeks after he joined County Executive Laura Curran's administration and a day before he was to be considered for confirmation by the Nassau Legislature.

A senior source told The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Purnell, who claimed he had acted alone, had in fact been expecting Cabinet colleagues to follow his lead and that Mr Hutton, who said he resigned for family reasons, had been «shamed» into resigning by Mr Purnell.

The New York Times first reported that Bharara was among the U.S. Attorneys asked to resign by Dana Boente, acting deputy attorney general — who rose to his position after Trump fired Sally Yates, another Obama appointee, for refusing to defend his Muslim travel ban.

You can only ask someone to resign so many times, after all, until you lose interest and turn your attention to other things, especially when those things involve obscure sexual acts by totally not - gay congressmen.

Late Monday, people following the jockeying said majority leader Joe Morelle — who, by the chamber's rules, becomes acting speaker if Silver resigns — and Carl Heastie, the Bronx County Democratic Chairman, were top contenders.

Others argued the turmoil in the Tory party, caused by the shock Brexit vote and leading to the possibility of a general election within months, had forced them to act, with further senior figures expected to resign on Monday.

The top Democrat in the state Senate is joining a groundswell within the party calling for U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty to resign over her handling of repeated acts of domestic violence by a since - fired chief of staff against a former aide.»

Immigration minister Mark Harper has «acted honourably» by resigning after discovering his cleaner did not have permission to work in the UK, Economic Secretary to the Treasury Nicky Morgan has said.

Conservative MP Andrew Percy said Mr Harper was a «really decent guy», and said it was «like him to act honourably» by resigning as he did.

Examples from the exhibition include: William Moore McCulloch, who worked tirelessly for equal rights at the risk of political suicide and was recognized by President Kennedy for his important influence in passing the Civil Rights Act; Edward Brooke, one of the first Republicans to call on President Nixon to resign in light of the Watergate scandal; Mose Wright, who in 1955 testified at the trial of the men who brutally abducted, tortured, and murdered his great nephew, Emmett Till, for allegedly whistling at a white woman; and Lois Jenson, a Minnesota miner who, in 1988, filed Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. and won the first class - action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States.

The letter, signed by more than 350 law students, lawyers, and professors accused the newest SCC judge of acting in a «callous and gratuitous manner» toward Douglas and contributing to her decision to resign from the bench.

Recall, English was appointed to the Acting Director position by former CFPB Director Richard Cordray before he resigned.