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And I feel blessed and fortunate that 15 years ago I had the courage to resign my tenured position at NYU and return to my home country where I can do these incredible rides with this group of troubled kids coming from Ethiopia and Morocco and Russia.
But the fact that these problems persist and that solutions sometimes create their own problems is not a reason for us to give up or to resign.
The end result was six ministers resigned, the first speaker of the house in 300 years was forced to resign, a new government was elected on a mandate of transparency, 120 MPs stepped down at that election, and so far, four MPs and two lords have done jail time for fraud.
He's called André Pannison, and he basically took the Twitter conversation in Tahrir Square on the day that Hosni Mubarak would eventually resign, and the dots you can see are retweets, so when someone retweets a message, a connection is made between two dots, and the more times that message is retweeted by other people, the more you get to see these nodes, these connections being made.
So after the tragic incident, Mark, you decided to resign your position as an astronaut, even though you were supposed to take the next space mission.
So I didn't actually resign from being an astronaut, but I gave up my job and they found a replacement.
I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing, deny all of my other passions, and just resign myself to being bored.
And the activists realized that they couldn't just keep protesting and ask the president to resign.
The Icelandic prime minister had to resign.
We can easily resign to the fact or to the thinking that government is too inefficient, too corrupt, unfixable.
Not only did I resign from television, but I had also decided to leave my country.
Please resign."
And our joy of music, etc., etc. ..." So he had to resign.
I moaned about it, I hesitated, I went on and on and on to my long-suffering wife, and eventually I decided to resign from the British Foreign Service.
However, first things first as Dr. Cameron has his sights set on some sweet revenge on the people who dismissed his experiments, forced him to resign & subjected him to public ridicule.
Cameron, who has set up shop deep in the swamp lands of what I'm presuming is the Louisiana bayou, is plotting revenge against four of his former peers who both humiliated him and forced him to resign from his previous job.
I also remember the long campaign for the impeachment of Nixon in 1973-1974 that will eventually lead to his resignation and the swearing in of Gerald Ford, the first Vice President, and eventually President, of the US who had not been elected, since he was appointed Vice President by the Senate after Spiro Agnew had to resign to face trial, conviction and sentence for embezzlement.
Both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry.
Ground - breaking stuff it isn't.Lance Percival tries a bewildering range of accents before settling on a vaguely Scottish lilt but cannot compete with full - on nutter Ronald Fraser or frankly weird Ian Bannen in the "Barmy Jock" stakes.Our favourite cockney veers between Bob Hoskins and John Gielgud as the whim takes him.Denholm Elliot sweats far too much to make a convincing officer,"We have a place in Wiltshire" he tells Cliff Robertson who absorbs this nugget unblinkingly Robertson himslf changes from a man willing to resign his commission rather than go into combat to a gung - ho battle - hardened leader of men in the space of ten minutes.Whatever he's on they should have given the whole U.S. Army and the war would have been over by 1942.
Even Turkus' old boss, William O'Dwyer, who rode Turkus' good work into election as the city's mayor, was later forced to resign among charges of massive corruption and mob connections.
It balances though in many aspects the old -Orpheus- myths of the travels via the under-worlds to the finding of secret treasures, so precious the conductor should resign his fears: Europe, as you know, is a derivative of the old Indo-Europeans, enemies to Egypt, the Ancient Gnostic Civilization.
Malcolm goes to his Managing Editor and tries to resign but becomes involved with a young girl being murdered and from then on all kinds of hell breaks loose.
In the time of George McGovern's presidential bid against President Nixon, who would later resign in disgrace (lest he be impeached and thrown out of office), we had a choice.
Some ideological hawks in Sharon's government threatened to resign;Shimon Peres announced that Labor will offer Sharon a parliamentary safety net; there is even talk about Labor joining a national unity government.
The latest scandal, for example, cost Hollande a key adviser, who was forced to resign after left-wing media exposed a conflict of interest.
The Trump administration is just such a “business,” which means that its senior employees have no alternative but to resign in the face poor (or even law-defying) management.
Tensions increased dramatically when Mashal signed the unity agreement with Fatah, after stating his intention to resign as head of the political bureau.
But it is unlikely that he will force her to resign before then, because markets would punish such an obvious violation of central-bank independence.
Late last year, an Australian senator was forced to resign over his alleged ties to a Chinese billionaire.
Prostitution is illegal in most of the US, including Washington DC, and this could be one reason why Tobias had to resign.
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