Sentences with phrase «government resigned»

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.

The debt - plagued country's government resigned after opposition parties failed to pass much - needed austerity measures, increasing the likelihood of a bailout.

Chants of «Tayyip resign» and «government resign» rang out through the city.

Not exact matches

The former Greek finance minister resigned in the aftermath of his government's victory, another unexpected twist in Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's unorthodox showdown with his country's creditors over the terms of a new bailout.

Woolworths» liquor arm has resigned from the Liquor Stores Association of Western Australia, following the association's support for state government plans to restrict the growth of large liquor stores, such as Dan Murphy's and First Choice.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson sparked political chaos on Tuesday, as reports surfaced that he could resign from his position in government shortly after May's eagerly anticipated speech in Florence.

Kalanick was pressured to resign last year after the company became mired in legal woes and a raft of government investigations into how it does business.

But a colleague from D'Alema's Democrats of the Left, the largest coalition party, said that if he resigned, the whole government would have to follow suit.

Industry Minister Tony Clement has set off a firestorm of controversy with the government's decision to ax the mandatory long - form census from Statistics Canada, which caused the head of the national polling agency to resign in protest.

He resigned from government four months later.

The U.S.Office of Personnel Management Chief Katherine Archuleta resigned last week after revealing that the recent data breach of government computers was much larger than originally thought.

The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- Britain's interior minister resigned on Sunday after Prime Minister Theresa May's government faced an outpouring of indignation over its treatment of some long - term Caribbean residents who were wrongly labelled illegal immigrants.

LONDON, April 30 - Britain's interior minister resigned on Sunday after Prime Minister Theresa May's government faced an outpouring of indignation over its treatment of some long - term Caribbean residents who were wrongly labelled illegal immigrants.

AEP has heard rumours that Yannis Stournaras, the current Bank of Greece governor and former finance minister, is set to head up a technocratic government if Mr Tsipras resigns tonight.

Shaub resigned as the director of the Office of Government Ethics in July after clashing with the White House over Trump's complicated financial holdings.

The so - called government office provisions allow employees, including Dimon, in certain circumstances to walk away with the full amount of the stock - based pay and bonuses that they would otherwise lose when they resigned from the firm.

Chairman and CEO Bob Iger resigned for the same reason from the President's Strategic and Policy Forum, which Trump established to advise him on how government policy impacts economic growth and job creation.

That lead to Varoufakis resigning from the government.

Walter Shaub, former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics who resigned last year after clashing with the Trump administration, said that all of Trump's payments to Cohen may have violated the law.

About 25,000 workers resigned between the start of January 2017 and the end of January 2018, said union leader and government critic Ivan Freites, citing internal company data.

Meller is the first such leader to resign as a result of a wide - ranging government inquiry into financial sector misconduct which began in February.

House Speaker John Boehner, under fire from conservatives over a looming government shut down, said Friday he will resign from Congress at the end of October.

In what is being described as a «showdown,» Bharara was dismissed Friday after reportedly refusing to resign his position on government orders.

Brazil's President Michel Temer said on April 17 he expects some of his ministers to resign after they were implicated in a massive corruption investigation, but said this would not stop his government from pursuing landmark economic reforms.

Back to the federal Conservative leadership, Fildebrandt has endorsed leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, the Quebec MP known for his libertarian views briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs before resigning in 2008 after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open, apparently at his former girlfriend's home.

He held four cabinet posts under Premier Klein's government: in 1997 Stelmach became Minister of Agriculture, Food and Development; in May 1999, he was shuffled to the Infrastructure Ministry and later became Minister of Transport; and in 2004, he became the Alberta Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, a position he held until he resigned in June 2006 to become a party leadership candidate.

Not since Michael D. Brown got that «heckuva job» praise over the federal government's Hurricane Katrina response and then resigned over his poor performance for his Hurricane Katrina response has a presidential assessment of U.S. disaster aid swung quite...

Kyrgyz Republic By Simon Watkins Kurmanbek Bakiyev After a week of defying a provisional government that seized power in an armed uprising that left at least 84 people dead, the Kyrgyz Republic's ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, resigned and...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top - ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for the head of AIG to resign over comments he made comparing outrage over executive bonuses to lynchings that took place...

So far, the inquiry has received criticism as its original chairwoman Susan O'Brien QC resigned from the post in 2016 after citing government interference - something which the government at the time rejected.

As allegations of sexual harassment mount and a government minister resigns, Premier's political editor Martyn Eden suggests a way forward

As allegations of sexual harassment mount and a government minister resigns, Premier's political editor Martyn Eden suggests a way forward More

They have not, in the words of Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, «practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.»

Their argument is that, to put it in Lincoln's language, «if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.»

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

The duty of determining the Constitution's meaning is not something «We the People» can resign into the hands of any one organ of national government.

The Turnbull government faces controversy as opposition demands Michaelia Cash resign over union raids.

Balfour resigned as premier after failing to reach an agreement on tariff law reform, leaving Liberal leader Henry Campbell - Bannerman to form a government.

The government adviser hired to get 120,000 «problem families» back to work resigned yesterday amid allegations of fraud at her firm.

The UK should therefore follow the example of other parliamentary democracies and affirm the first principle of all caretaker conventions: a caretaker government can not resign until an alternative government has taken office because the country can not be left without a functioning executive.

However, senior Tory MPs have raised the question whether Lib Dems in the government will be forced to resign due to the ministerial code.

A key gap in the current UK caretaker conventions is the lack of provisions to prevent a caretaker government from resigning.

You have a choice in government - you can either take collective responsibility and stay in government or you can resign.

Thank you for your letter informing me of your decision to resign from the Government.

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

Three British cabinet ministers resign in quick succession and yet the survival of the minority government is completely unaffected.

For the constitution, for the government to resign and new elections maybe?

A second minister has resigned from the Foreign Office in as many weeks, forcing David Cameron to make yet more changes to his government.

And my conclusion was that they wanted the government to resign, they wanted the board of the national bank to resign and they wanted the board of the money supervisory authority to resign.