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In June, Antoine Zacharias, chairman and CEO of Vincy, France’s biggest public concessions and construction company, was obliged to
resign
when a majority of the board of directors judged his remuneration to be outrageous: €4.3 million in salary, a €13 million retirement bonus, a €2.2 million pension, and an estimated €173 million in stock options.
More recently, Noel Forgeard, the French co-CEO of the Franco-German aeronautical and defence company EADS, was forced to
resign
under a cloud of suspicion: he sold his EADS shares in March, before the company announced a costly delay in production of the Airbus A380.
Leave aside governors (the BJP asked all to
resign
to make way for political appointees soon after its 2014 election victory) and start with the judicial system, which has come under scrutiny since January, when the Supreme Court’s four most senior judges held an unprecedented press conference to question Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s allocation of cases.
His first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had to resign, after it emerged that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about discussing US sanctions with the Russian ambassador before Trump’s inauguration.
First, now that David Cameron has made clear that he will resign, the Conservative Party’s right wing and some of its sourer members will dominate the new government.
Guatemala’s situation is not as dramatic, economically speaking, but there is enormous pressure on President Otto Pérez Molina to resign, as corruption accusations fuel mass street demonstrations.
Indeed, some maintain that Berlusconi will be forced to
resign
as prime minister by the end of the year.
Indeed, by alienating big business and letting his wily chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, resign, Putin has deprived himself of crucial electoral resources.
Abbas cannot
resign
from his post for the foreseeable future, lest the Hamas-backed speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council take over.
France and Germany – which largely drove European integration for more than six decades – must not
resign
themselves to this state of affairs.
If Corbyn were a CEO who lost the confidence of his entire executive team and board, he would be forced to
resign
or be fired.
They could not simply
resign
and move on, much less receive a future role in the organization (and certainly not a senior post).
It is, of course, an honorable act for a government to take responsibility for so grave a failing and
resign.
The past director was one of Bush’s Texas political cronies, and the current director’s qualifications include a stint as commissioner for judges and stewards with the International Arabian Horse Association, where he was asked to
resign
for “supervision failures.”
But were it to
resign
itself to mere observer status in Lebanon, the UN and Europe would lose all credibility.
If India seems not to believe that America and its allies can really “succeed” in Afghanistan, nor is it willing to
resign
itself to a return of the Taliban to power, which could in turn lead to Talibanization of Pakistan.
The Arab Spring’s Crowd PsychologyABU DHABI – In 1896, the social psychologist Gustave Le Bon warned his contemporaries of the dangers of crowds, writing that, “It is necessary to arrive at a solution to the problems offered by [crowds’] psychology, or to
resign
ourselves to being devoured by them.”
He did
resign
this year, but in protest against the introduction of tariffs on steel imports.
Ed Royce, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, has called on Hun Sen to resign; condemnatory resolutions have been passed in a number of parliaments; and many states entered criticisms of one kind or another into the record when the UN Human Rights Council reviewed Cambodia’s human-rights record in Geneva a few weeks ago.
The mood in the US today is far from the point that it reached in 1973 and 1974, when the drive to impeach Nixon and convict him in the US Senate forced him to
resign.
It was only when the information about Porter’s past was revealed publicly that he was forced to
resign.
Having lost all support within his own party, Hatoyama had no choice but to
resign.
Juncker, like Cameron, should accept responsibility and
resign.
The Underside of UberLONDON – The car-hailing app Uber’s board members and investors have received an outpouring of praise in recent days for forcing CEO Travis Kalanick to
resign.
Sir Ivan Rogers, who was forced to
resign
last month as the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU because he questioned May’s negotiating approach, predicted this week a “gory, bitter, and twisted” breakup between Britain and Europe.
In the four ministries the Islamists ran, they imposed restrictions on female staff members, triggering widespread protests that ultimately forced the four ministers to
resign.
In Italy, the upcoming plebiscite has become a popular confidence vote in Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has said he will
resign
if the reforms are rejected.
But even if Wolfowitz is eventually forced to resign, nothing will be gained if US President George W. Bush is allowed summarily to choose his replacement, as US Presidents have been doing ever since the Bank was founded after World War II.
But the universities would not allow me to
resign
gracefully.
Fiat wallows in crisis; university rectors
resign
en mass; judges attend the opening session of the judicial year carrying copies of the constitution as a warning to the government.
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