Sentences with phrase «resign over the scandal»

The admission is likely to increase pressure on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign over the scandal involving the sale of state - owned land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen, which had ties to Abe's wife.

He has faced pressure to resign over scandals from numerous state lawmakers and other state officials, including Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R).

While the Met commissioner has resigned over the scandal, his reputation has survived intact.

He hotly denied any wrongdoing by then - State Police Superintendent Preston Felton, who subsequently resigned over the scandal, and also disputed Cuomo's report into the mess.

Labour MP David Lammy, who has led the Windrush campaign, said Amber Rudd should resign over the scandal

In May, Nayfeh resigned over the scandal at his journal, and SAGE contacted the authors of all 60 affected articles to let them know that the papers would be retracted.

I think the way that Mann and Phil Jones [the former director of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia, who resigned over the scandal] and those guys were going about it was wrong, not just in terms of ethics.

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Kenny, who has faced pressure from party colleagues to resign over a stumbling response to a police scandal, has said he will address his political future when he returns from America.

Mr. Sloan, a veteran of the bank, took over as C.E.O. after his predecessor, John Stumpf, resigned after the eruption of a scandal involving Wells Fargo's creation of fake accounts.

Greitens was already facing calls to resign over a sex scandal.

Winterkorn resigned soon after the scandal over polluting vehicles in the United States became public in September 2015.

The scandal forced the chain's founder and chairman, Richard Schulze, to resign and he has since been locked in a battle with directors over his plans to buy the firm and take it private.

Uber's founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned after mounting pressure from shareholders over a string of workplace scandals.

The phones are ringing off the hook at the parish of St. Michael's Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse scandal.

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.

Four bishops have already resigned in scandals involving homosexual activity, and a fifth, my friend James McCarthy, auxiliary bishop of New York, resigned over affairs with women.

Lisle Park District Director Roy Cripe resigned Tuesday, nearly three years after taking over the district while it was in the midst of scandal.

The highly unusual move comes amid mounting controversy over the phone - hacking scandal, with the prime minister criticised for going on a trade trip to South Africa as the Met commissioner resigned and Rebekah Brooks was arrested.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, appearing on the same programme, said people would view the potentially # 17 million payout for the former Barclays chief executive, who resigned last Tuesday over the Libor scandal, as «totally outrageous».

De Blasio spoke in hypothetical terms, saying if Clinton were president today, he would have to resign over the Lewinsky scandal.

And when Housing Authority chair Shola Olatoye was facing calls to resign over a lead - paint scandal, de Blasio said, «I continue to have great faith in her.»

The state legislature began interviewing candidates to replace Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned over a domestic violence scandal.

Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long has a TV spot that takes Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to task over not calling for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to resign in the ongoing Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal.

He took over as chief executive in 2008 after Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a sex scandal.

David Laws resigns over expenses scandal, replaced by former Scottish Danny Alexander.

[4] The investigation was headed by Assistant Commissioner John Yates who later resigned over the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

«Over the last few months, New York City Democratic Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver has been under fire to resign over the sex scandal coverup and taxpayer funded pay - off involving Assemblyman Vito LoOver the last few months, New York City Democratic Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver has been under fire to resign over the sex scandal coverup and taxpayer funded pay - off involving Assemblyman Vito Loover the sex scandal coverup and taxpayer funded pay - off involving Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

The last two governors also found themselves in ethical trouble - Eliot Spitzer resigned over a prostitution scandal and David Paterson was fined for ethical lapses.

But he was also the first to resign the post in more than 300 years, after he lost the confidence of many members over his handling of the MPs» expenses scandal in 2009.

(CNN)- Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace over a prostitution scandal, said Monday morning he made his decision to re-enter politics as recently as this past weekend.

(CNN)- The day before Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned in May, nearly 25 senators signed a letter calling for him to step down amid a widening scandal over delayed medical care for vets.

Senate Leader Dean Skelos has resigned his post over a corruption scandal and Republicans have elected Senator John Flanagan, currently chair of the Education Committee, to be his successor.

Former New York State Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who took over as governor when Spitzer resigned amid scandal, weighed in on Spitzer's new bid for office on Monday afternoon but withheld any type of endorsement.

Weiner was in his seventh term in Congress representing parts of the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn when he resigned from the House in 2011 amid scandal over lewd photos sent via Twitter.

(CNN)- Former Rep. Anthony Weiner posted his first tweet Wednesday since resigning nearly 18 months ago over a scandal involving lewd photos and messages he sent via Twitter.

(CNN)-- Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned in 2011 amid scandal over a lewd photo sent via Twitter, confirmed in an interview published Wednesday that he's considering a political comeback, with a New York City mayoral bid on his radar.

Mockridge last year was dispatched to replace Rebekah Brooks, who was forced to resign over News International's hacking and bribery scandal at the company's now - closed News of the World and faces a criminal trial next year.

Shola Olatoye, the chairwoman of the New York City Housing Authority, said Tuesday that she's resigning because it's the right time to go, not because of scandals over false lead - paint inspections and failing boilers or looming oversight by the state and federal government.

The poll has not recorded approval numbers for a politician this low since former Governor Eliot Spitzer, resigned over a prostitution scandal in 2008.

He told the Commons» home affairs committee that he had an «effective veto» over the choice of who would replace Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned from the job at the height of the phone - hacking scandal.

But the Harvey Weinstein scandal is now causing chaos at the top of British politics, with Michael Fallon resigning over his (largely unspecified) past behaviour and others expected to follow.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who served as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's 2000 U.S. Senate bid, said he agrees with U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's comment that former President Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Lewinsky scandal.

Washington (CNN)- The wife of Rep. Anthony Weiner returned home from a work trip Wednesday as her husband faced mounting pressure to resign over a «sexting» scandal that he lied about before admitting his involvement.

The revelation comes as Jeremy Corbyn said ministers were «warned» in 2014 of the impact of the policy, while Emily Thornberry yesterday called on Amber Rudd to resign as Home Secretary over the scandal.

House Democrats insisted Sunday that Rep. Anthony Weiner must resign — not just take a leave of absence to undergo psychological treatment — as they prepare to return to Washington contemplating a possible vote to expel him from the party caucus due to the scandal over his sexually - charged online messages.

Weiner, who resigned in 2011 amid scandal over a lewd photo sent via Twitter, confirmed in an interview published on Wednesday that he's considering a political comeback.

The disgraced former New York representative is running to reclaim his 11th District seat with Bannon's backing, after resigning from the House in 2015 over a nearly $ 1 million tax evasion scandal.

Everybody meant well, and the crowd was positive about what it did not want: Eliot Spitzer, who, despite entering the race late and resigning as governor over a prostitution scandal, leads Stringer slightly in the polls.

The conditional factor will be whether Guinta, who has refused to resign over a campaign finance scandal, stays in the race.

When asked by MSNBC Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski on how his life has changed since he resigned from office over a prostitution scandal, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer became emotional.