Sentences with phrase «stood down in»

Earlier reports suggested that Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist was being lined up to take over from Philip Dodd, who stood down in October after seven years in the post.

However, Victoria Vaughn - Perling, whose 10 alpacas were slaughtered there, stood down in the face of public outcry.

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.

David Owen stood down in 1992, by that time an Independent MP, and between 1992 and 2015 the seat was held by Labour.

It's a shame really that he stood down in 2010 because he was, in my mind, at least, something of a formidable parliamentarian who Plaid were really lucky to have.

Blair eventually stood down in 2007.

Rob Tromans (pictured left) stood down in April, citing «personal reasons» and was still under investigation for an alleged assault when he contested and won in the Nuneaton and Bedworth council elections last week.

Many progressive groups, meanwhile, largely stood down in their criticism in order to support Cuomo's push for a $ 15 minimum wage and a paid family leave program.

Former police officer Jack Clarkson hopes to replace former Labour police commissioner Shaun Wright who stood down in the wake of Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal

Names of incumbents are listed where they stood for re-election; for details of defeated new candidates and the incumbent who stood down in those cases see individual constituency articles.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey condemned the «extraordinary behaviour» of Labour MPs who stood down in protest at Mr Corbyn's leadership.

The by - election was triggered by the resignation of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, who stood down in line with his party's new policy of ending «double - jobbing» to focus on his work as deputy first minister.

However, by the time of the party's annual conference in Brighton it had become apparent the leadership question risked overshadowing the party and the 66 - year - old stood down in October, citing the media's preoccupation with his age.

Widdecombe stood down in 2010.

More than 60 members of Labour's frontbench have stood down in the past week, while 172 MPs - three - quarters of the total - last week backed a motion of no confidence in their leader.

Most commentators predicted that Miliband would not become the next Labour leader when Gordon Brown stood down in 2010.

Other than it being a distant ambition, when the Nuneaton candidate (Simon Rouse) stood down in 2008.

Stephen Ross retained the Isle of Wight mainly by squeezing the Labour vote to almost nothing until he stood down in 1987.

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

The barrister is vying to replace Nigel Farage after he stood down in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union.

It's easy to see SoftBank's hand in Uber standing down in Southeast Asia.

Pope Francis has forced a bishop in Paraguay to stand down in relation to Vatican's «serious pastoral concerns.»

Anyone who pretends to know where this revolution will lead is as deluded as Mubarak seemed to be when he refused to stand down in his Thursday speech.

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If you look at Manchester City, Pellegrini announced he was standing down in January and Guardiola was announced.

Wenger seems to get questioned every week about whether he is thinking of standing down or retiring, but Le Prof seems to have made it unequivocally clear that he is not tired of his job, and has no intention of standing down in the near future.

News coming out of the club today suggests CEO Philip Beard is also set to leave his post, with reports suggesting he will stand down in mid March.

After 21 - and - a-half years in charge, the Frenchman will stand down in May — and then thoughts will turn to appointing a successor.

The former health minister was the first MP to stand down in protest at Sir Christopher Kelly's proposal to prevent politicians from employing family members.

If we vote to stay in the EU the careers of Boris and his fellow outers will be pushed into the political long grass until the PM stands down in 2018 or 2019.

A persistent rumour is that Cable will stand down in two or three years allowing a younger candidate to take over.

«For the good of Stoke and the people of Stoke he should do something decent and stand down in shame, failing that Labour should remove him».

He became leader of the Labour group, and leader of the council, in 2004 before standing down in 2010 following his election as MEP.

Having held the seat since 1984, Clwyd announced in 2014 that she would stand down in the 2015 general election, only to later row back on the decision.

She was re-elected for the last time in the 1989 election, standing down in 1993.

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.

Q: David Wildstein said on the stand that it was his impression that you and Christie talked about telling officials to stand down in terms of what happened in Fort Lee.

He said: «The reason I have allowed my name to be mentioned in the speculation about this is purely and simply because we lost in May, Iain Gray announced he was standing down in September, which is next week, and I don't even know if that's going ahead.»

First he said he would stand, then he said he would stand down in favour of Campbell, then he said he might stand again and now he is backing Tyler.»

The Labour leader is facing mounting pressure from his own MPs to stand down in the wake of the EU referendum.

President Obama called New York's embattled governor a wonderful man — a day after throwing him into a fight for his political career after it was leaked that the White House wants Paterson to stand down in the 2010 contest.

A war of words developed in which Lewes Greens called the decision to stand down in Pavilion «emotional blackmail» and said they would not reconsider unless the «opportunist» Liberal Democrats stood down in Isle of Wight.

Sunder, I take your point about Mr Smith - except isn't just a reflection of the US system as it stood and stands that when an elected senator stands down in mid term or even two days after election, the US system gives the electorate an unelected official for the rest of that term.

Ex-home secretary standing down in 2015 says Labour leader should find room for «oldies» and admits regret over ID cards

Their intention was to force Mr Brown to stand down in favour of Alan Johnson, the then Health Secretary.

This seems unlikely, while John Denham is standing down in Southampton Itchen the last time Ashcroft polled the seat in May it had an eight point Labour lead.

Bevan openly called for him to stand down in the summer of 1954.

My suggestion that Corbyn stand down in favour of another candidate was driven by a desire to save his policies — which, as the polling shows, are very popular indeed — from being buried in the rubble of a terrible election defeat.

The papers welcomed Afghan president Hamid Karzai's announcement that he will stand down in 2014, stating: «This is very important.

She told the same programme: «I certainly wouldn't want to stand down in any circumstances, having slogged round the country talking to tens of thousands of party members for the last two months.