Sentences with phrase «pressure by resigning»

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».

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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.

Cho repeated the phrase when a reporter asked her thoughts on the growing pressure on her family to resign and an upcoming rally by Korean Air employees protesting the family's abuse of power.

A severe disappointment by any of them — and it's happened before — or the unraveling of one of the pre-IPO «unicorns» (Uber in particular, whose bad - boy CEO, Travis Kalanick, resigned under investor pressure Wednesday) could spark panic selling that would spread way beyond the friendly confines of Silicon Valley.

The scandal has already led to the ouster of former president and CEO Steve Penny, who resigned in March after pressure by the U.S. Olympic Committee.

From outgoing Greek Prime Minister Papandreou's torpedoing of the G20 by his «bolt from the blue» referendum call, swiftly withdrawn under outraged pressure from the Merkel - Sarkozy tandem, to Italy's Berlusconi teetering on the edge, then announcing he will resign and abandon his attempts to cling to power, to Sarkozy himself introducing larger than expected «austerity» cuts despite the upcoming presidential election in 2012 — politics is back.

But she resigned in protest because she didn't like the way the issue was handled by the school district, which had been facing mounting pressure over the past couple of weeks from parents who wanted to retain Kaleida's longtime pediatric nurses.

The Cornwall county councillor who provoked outrage by saying disabled children should be put down has bowed to public pressure and resigned.

The data, revealed by the Guardian, shows how far the NHS has responded to intense political pressure - including a promise to resign by the health secretary - to avoid a deficit.

The top investigator at the New York Correction Department resigned on Friday under pressure from city leaders who are facing a federal mandate to regain control of the Rikers Island jail complex, where widespread brutality and corruption by guards routinely go unpunished.

Mr Wright only resigned after weeks of pressure following the Jay Report which revealed how more than 1,400 children had been exploited by gangs of men in Rotherham.

Richard Iannuzzi, a nine - year incumbent president of New York State United Teachers, was defeated by a comfortable margin Sunday, and James Jackson, a member of the State Board of Regents, was pressured by lawmakers to resign last month; both are casualties of an emotional controversy that has erupted among parents and teachers and mobilized lobbies with a variety of political goals.

But considering that Grimm (R - Staten Island / Brooklyn) may go to jail, and if he doesn't, may be pressured by House Republicans to resign, Antoniello said the party is considering the option that there will be a special election to fill his seat.

The governor's office pointed to a 2008 statement by longtime state schools chief Nancy S. Grasmick when she came under pressure to resign.

McIntosh, 40, replaces Bob Young, who resigned under pressure in late September as part of a staff shake - up in the animal control department that was brought about by charges of mismanagement and animal neglect.

By Ben Webster The head of the UNâ $ ™ s climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.

As resignation has to be the last resort for any general counsel, I wonder how many people have any appreciation for the internal battles fought and the pressures faced by any GC in the period before he or she makes the decision to resign.

«Former nanny Monica Thompson (whose salary was paid by Allen, since three of the brood were also his) swore in a deposition to Allen's attorneys that she was pressured by Farrow to support the molestation charges, and the pressure led her to resign her position.»