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Yet no one suggested that Corzine should
resign
because of his foolish and illegal act.
In Italy, the right-wing coalition government led by Silvio Berlusconi has taken a lurch away from Italy's traditional enthusiasm for Europe, inciting Renato Ruggiero, its pro-European foreign minister, to
resign.
(Zhukov was suspected of plotting to seize power, and, before forcing a decorated World War II general to resign, my father and his colleagues enlisted the support of other high-ranking generals, who all agreed with Khrushchev’s plan.)
If a vote of censure is carried, however, with the necessary majority, all 20 Commissioners would be required to
resign.
For had a censure vote been carried, the entire Commission would have been forced to resign, and the Union would likely have been paralysed for months, which is manifestly over the top.
When officials are accused or suspected of corruption, they do not quickly resign, as in Korea or Japan.
Cameron’s desperation to win votes spurred him to call a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, the result of which forced him to
resign.
Since then, the country’s president, Christian Wulff, who was elected with Merkel’s support, has been forced to resign, owing to mistakes he made as Minister President of Lower Saxony.
His tenure lasted just over three years, until, in 2012, he was forced at gunpoint to
resign.
But Sessions, the first Republican senator to endorse Trump, was enjoying rolling back numerous Obama-era protections in areas like civil rights, and refused to
resign.
His career entered a new phase in 1974, when Prime Minister Golda Meir was forced to
resign
after the October 1973 debacle, in which Anwar Sadat’s Egyptian forces successfully crossed the Suez Canal.
Twice, in 1977, after Rabin was forced to resign, and in 1995-1996, after Rabin was assassinated, Peres succeeded his rival.
Chen can remain in office until his term ends in 2008, or he could
resign
now in order to let his vice president and pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rebuild to win the next election.
But that does not mean we should
resign
ourselves to proliferation, let alone play down its catastrophic potential.
The first, Tung Chee-hwa, faced a half-million protesters in 2003; in 2005, halfway through his second term, his ever-growing unpopularity drove him to
resign.
Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla was forced to
resign
by his own party several weeks later.
Rather than
resign
ourselves to more years of hate and misery, it is urgent that the foundations for future peace be rebuilt before all civilized structures are swept away.
Indeed, Pakistan’s constitution also requires that the president, once elected, must
resign
from the political party that supported his or her candidacy.
Sir Howard Davies chose to
resign
as Director of the LSE, which awarded Saif his doctorate (which some allege was plagiarized) and took money for the school from the Libyan regime.
More importantly, protesters are demanding that the government
resign
–unthinkable just a year ago.
The BJP, however, proceeded to paralyze Parliament with unruly calls for the government to
resign.
This is unpalatable to the Bush administration, which has helped keep Musharraf in power, despite the fact that 75% of Pakistanis want him to
resign.
Already, the prime minister of Iceland has been forced to resign, after it was revealed that he held stakes in offshore companies with his wife.
This would so undermine May’s authority, I anticipated, that she would have to
resign.
But, given the Conservative Party’s history of summarily dethroning its leaders, there is a strong chance that May will have to
resign
as prime minister well before the Brexit negotiations end.
Yet a major and destabilizing confrontation over public finance now seems unavoidable, particularly following House Speaker John Boehner’s surprise announcement that he will
resign
his position and his seat in Congress at the end of October.
So the decision in January by Philipp Hildebrand, Chairman of the Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), to
resign
over allegations relating to a suspicious currency trade made by his wife, is to be welcomed.
If Enria were to
resign
or – God forbid – be forced out by a scandal in the near future, bank regulators everywhere would get the message: “Nice job you have there – it would be a shame if anything happened to it.”
If this threat becomes salient, Trump may prefer to
resign
and secure a pardon for all involved, rather than endure an impeachment process that may well end with him losing the presidency anyway.
The Trump presidency has featured an uncommonly long trail of aides forced to
resign
or fired for various reasons.
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