Sentences with phrase «by resigning as»

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.

Hours before he quit, Lib Dem peer Brian Paddick - who was Britain's most senior openly gay police officer in the Met Police - piled on pressure by resigning as home affairs spokesman over his «views».

«Both Steve Baker and Suella Fernandes recognised this principle by resigning as the ERG's chair as each became junior ministers.

Lord Paddick, as it turned out, was not even the worst of them when, in a manner reminiscent of the innuendo of Victorian prejudice, he stuck the knife in by resigning as the party's home affairs spokesman, citing concerns about Farron's «views on various issues that were highlighted» during the general election.

By resigning as pastor, the temptation to leverage your position to increase your popularity and fame disappears, because the position is not there to leverage.

A lot of this can be accomplished simply by resigning as pastor as I have suggested in the previous posts.

By resigning as CEO but retaining his board seat, Kalanick has set up the potential for a «power game» to be played between him, his fellow board members and the new CEO, he said.

Not exact matches

Cameron resigned as prime minister and was succeeded by May.

May 1 - Jacob Jacobson agreed to resign as Xerox Corp's chief executive as part of a settlement of a lawsuit brought by the company's shareholders that raised questions over Xerox's agreed deal with Japan's Fujifilm Holdings Corp, a New York court filing showed on Tuesday.

«I made mistakes,» a line under the header «Resign» read, as photographed by the Associated Press.

Three high - profile business people have resigned from the board of Perth Modern School, just weeks after two other board members did not seek re-election, as the fallout from a governance dispute and a review by KPMG continues.

The exodus was led by Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier who resigned Monday from a manufacturing council, saying, «As C.E.O. of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against extremism.&raquAs C.E.O. of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against extremism.&raquas a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against extremism.»

Cagney on Monday resigned as chairman and announced he will step down as CEO by the end of the year amid allegations of widespread sexual harassment at the company, which is also known as SoFi.

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.

Murdoch University has appointed Eeva Leinonen as its first female vice-chancellor, replacing Richard Higgott who resigned last year after being investigated by the Corruption and Crime Commission.

Ma, who served on Liaoning's People's Congress before resigning at the weekend, is described by Chinese media as the most successful businessperson in Dandong involved in cross-border trade with North Korea.

September: SoFi cofounder Mike Cagney resigned as chairman and announced he would step down as CEO by the end of the year amid allegations of widespread sexual harassment at the company.

Lewandowski was soon hired by CNN as a conservative commentator but resigned in November 2016 amid speculation he would serve in the Trump administration, something that never came to fruition.

While reporting on a protest by a group of activists who had just forced the university's president to resign, he was pushed and harassed by the demonstrators, as well as by a faculty member.

Mr Winterkorn resigned as a direct result of the scandal and was replaced by Matthias Mueller, the former boss of Porsche.

Director Richard Cordray, appointed by President Obama as the first person to run the agency, resigned effective Friday.

All options and restricted shares awarded under our equity plans are also subject to a double - trigger accelerated vesting condition under the terms of our equity award letters, which provides for an acceleration of the vesting schedule if the associate is terminated without cause or resigns for good reason (as defined by the applicable equity plan) within the one - year period following a change in control (as defined by the applicable equity plan).

Xerox's plan to merge its business with Fujifilm of Japan looks to be increasingly in jeopardy, as its chairman, its chief executive and a majority of its board members said they would resign in favor of a slate of new leaders favored by shareholders opposing the deal.

Nix was appointed as an Emerdata director on January 23 but had seemingly resigned by March 28.

If, by chance, Mr. Allen did resign as MLA, voters in the northern Alberta constituency would choose a new representative in a by - election.

Re Prentice, I agree resigning as Tory leader is defensible, to an extent... but resigning the seat he had just won back on E-Day, leaving his constituents unrepresented and putting us all on the hook for an unnecessary by - election was crass and cowardly.

If you went strictly by Stephen Harper's spoken record, he never resigned as Conservative leader after last fall's election defeat, and he's got no plans to do anything but carry out his full four - year term as MP for Calgary Heritage.

Accusations of sexual misconduct against Wynn were reported by the Wall Street Journal in January, and he resigned as chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts on Feb. 6.

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Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.

The Ethics Committee dropped its final charges against Gingrich not long before he resigned as speaker, despite finding that Gingrich had in fact violated one rule by repeatedly using a political consultant paid by GOPAC to develop the Republican political agenda, because there was no evidence he was continuing to do so.

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

A previous High Court bid by Mr Birks to be allowed to resign, so he could take up a position as a curate in Portslade parish, Sussex, was also refused.

Senior pastors who are resigning or retiring can encourage that possibility by advising church leaders to explore the names of ordained women as potential candidates for filling the positions.

In reading an essay by Peter Collier on the late Christopher Hitchens in the February 2012 issue of the New Criterion, I was brought up short when I came across this: ``... former New Leftists who, like us, had resigned from our radical generation and embraced America as the hope of the....

But Christians should not thereby become resigned to increased suffering and evil, especially as these must be endured by the wretched of the earth.

Marx's criticism is that the church taught the masses that the established order is willed by God and that, as obedient and submissive subjects, they should resign themselves to it.

Another position, more philosophical perhaps, and indicating a more resigned mood, is the familiar one taken by the negative theologians: God is audessus de mêlée, a mystery beyond our simple categories, above human censure as he is above human praise.

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The government resigned, Havel was acclaimed interim president, and in a matter of days, if not hours, the great ugly wall that had separated Christian Europe into two branches (as the pope put it) came pounding down, hammer blow by hammer blow.

All we can do is resign ourselves, to be carried along by them, to embrace them as they are.

The report claims that we had a deadline day offer turned down by his current club, but also that they are resigned to losing the 22 - year old star as he is not prepared to sign a new contract.

The 19 - year old has been starring for the Arsenal under 21 side recently but as reported by the Daily Express, he was resigned to using our pre-season traing and matches to force his way back into the manager's plans for the Premier League squad.

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.

That is a good question, and I also thought like that until I watched PL Fan Zone where an anti-Arsenal panel went on and on as to why it was negligence by Wenger not to resign Song and Fabregas.

If you want to resign from a company to chase a better career, you might be labeled by your boss as an unappreciated employee, because your service is highly required in that company.

For Jack to stay is salary must be halved and must be resigned as being a squad player, if by chance his fitness and injury problems improved then his contract can also be improved, otherwise he must be sold quickly to make room for more dependable players.

Having already threatened to boycott this year's match if David Graham did not resign as captain, the Internationals again laid down the law by demanding that the event be held overseas in 1998 — or else.

North Carolina football coach Mack Brown, who has worked across campus from Dean Smith for 10 seasons, remarked last week on Smith's «very high energy on the boundary... bench... sidelines... whatever they call it,» then added that he had learned some useful strategies by watching Smith, who resigned as Tar Heels basketball coach last week after 36 seasons in Chapel Hill.