Sentences with phrase «to stand down»

They changed their minds when he was lined up for a new party role after standing down as chief executive following private allegations about his conduct.

You can order ships to fight defensively, stand down from combat or attack anything that gets in their way.

Many had suggested the manager could stand down at the end of the season, I don't see it.

Several ministers who stood down in protest over his performance in the summer have since returned, although his office seemed unaware one of those it thought had come back had never left.

If the lender or agency does not stand down after you contact them to stop, you might go further and file a complaint in court against them.

In infants, the body's immune army stands down for a month or two and then gears up.

The defence select committee member is standing down on the advice of his doctor.

We don't stand down and leave soldiers to die on a battlefield when we can send help.

There are 10 - 15 cup and league games a season where he can stand down if necessary and we'd get by.

Speaking anonymously, one government member told the newspaper he would be prepared to stand down over the vote.

In the 13 Labour - held constituencies where MPs stood down — 12 have been filled by candidates with union links.

She said she was standing down due to the hate - mail she received after it emerged she had spent almost # 100,000 on staffing costs.

He insisted he had decided to stand down ahead of the national executive voting by 17 - 14 in favour of him staying in the job.

I'll just stand down and keep my inferior thoughts in check.

None of the recent retirement seats are included, but there are two where candidates have recently stood down in seats within the top 200 targets.

We propose that the board stand down effective immediately.

But sometimes it might look like standing down, swallowing your pride and letting something go.

Were it not reliant upon him, there's a good chance he'd have already stood down.

Upon standing down as prime minister, he reportedly told friends he was «going dark» and staying out of the spotlight.

It's fall right now and I just decided I have to go find some fresh apples at the fruit stand down the street.

If the player stands down and to the left of point A, any enemies on platform B will just walk straight down, killing themselves.

Students will struggle with the hard choice between standing down and standing up for yourself.

In fact, property damages may bring your financial standing down.

He stood up and stood down trying to cope with her unrealistic demands for the sake of their child.

Finally, is it mandatory that, if a leader or PM loses their seat in an election they should stand down from their leadership position, or this only customary?

I think it appropriate to stand down as economic spokesman, which I have done.

In two cases the sitting Members had indicated that they would be standing down at the general election.

He will be 76 in 2020 and, depending on his health by then, could face calls to stand down in favour of a fresh face.

Lawmakers also wanted the governor to stand down on a proposal for special tax districts on developments near the subway as a way to help pay for the system, known as value capture.

House votes to appoint former Labour minister who stood down from home affairs select committee over sex scandal

The intervention of Sion Simon, who used an article in the Birmingham Post newspaper to call for Labour to allow sitting Labour MPs to stand, is surprising as he is the only candidate who stood down before the 2010 general election to campaign for a directly elected mayor.

Brown was reluctant to answer, but came under pressure to stand down by Tony Blair, who was contacted by the parties.

Amazingly he then returned to the Commons in his old job as MP for Walsall North, where he was shunned by colleagues but didn't stand down until a year later.

The sensible thing for Caroline Spelman - who must be regarded as being innocent unless shown to be otherwise - is to stand down voluntarily as party chairman until the matter is cleared up.

Her husband, fellow Tory MP Andrew Mackay, will also stand down at the election, after becoming one of the first victims of the expenses scandal.

She is on the board of Stanford University, where she got her MBA, but doesn't sit on any corporate boards since standing down as a director of General Dynamics Corp. earlier this year.

The only leader of the four traditional parties not to win a constituency seat, Dugdale said before the elections that she had no intention of standing down if Labour came third and needed five years to rebuild Scottish Labour after a series of poor election results.

Elected to parliament in 1997 and is standing down because of his age.

It later updated its statement to say that its forensic auditors stood down at the UK Information Commissioner's Office.

CEO Jerry del Missier, who was co-president of the investment arm of Barclays Capital between 2005 and 2008, also stood down with immediate effect today.

The AGM season kicks off in earnest on Tuesday with Telstra and Cochlear, followed by CSL, Treasury Wine Estates, Brambles, Aurizon Holdings, Healthscope, BHP Billiton's London AGM on Thursday and IAG on Friday, after outgoing Myer chairman Paul McClintock became the first victim of AGM season after standing down last week.

I wrote on Saturday that Cameron is keen to see Peter Mandelson become the next head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) when Pascal Lamy stands down next year.

«I have reluctantly decided that, with my young family it is best to stand down now so someone else can have a proper run at it.

Why, wonders the confident reformer, can't these old - timers just stand down so we can make progress?

After several attempts in his constituency party to deselect him, he finally stood down from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, and in the dissolution honours he was made a life peer, being created Baron Shore of Stepney, of Stepney in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on 5 June 1997.

When Blair stood down in 2007, Gordon Brown went about collecting as many nominations as he could to forestall a competitive contest.

Wendy Alexander stood down from the post in 2008 following a row about donations to her leadership campaign.