Resign
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Some – such as Sergey Chemezov, the CEO of the hi-tech and defense state corporation Rostec, and the Kremlin’s “grey cardinal,” Igor Sechin, the executive chairman of the state-owned oil company Rosneft – still hold powerful positions and show little inclination to
resign
on their own.
And every time the CEO of such a bank is forced to resign, the evidence mounts that these organizations have become impossible to manage in a responsible way that generates sustainable value for shareholders and keeps taxpayers out of harm’s way.
Vice President Roxana Baldetti was forced to resign, after reports linked her to a group accused of taking bribes to avoid levying customs taxes, and was arrested in August.
To join the inspectors, weapons experts are obliged to
resign
from their national postings, but few are ready to give up their careers to work in the UN bureaucracy.
Yet it may be the fact that Italy’s three opposition parties all favor exiting the euro that explains why Prime Minster Matteo Renzi has promised to
resign
if voters reject the reforms.
The opposition seized on the ruling and called on Obasanjo to
resign.
Military and police forces supported opposition-led street protests, and Nasheed was forced to
resign
the following month, succeeded by his then-deputy, Mohammed Hassan.
Thus, the general who yearned to see his picture in Chilean history books next to that of our liberator, Bernardo O’Higgins, must now
resign
himself to dying abandoned even by those who, until only two years ago, revered and honored him.
Her predecessor, Ehud Olmert, inundated by corruption charges and set to resign, is hardly her best asset.
Small wonder, then, that Hatoyama advocated replacing Kan with Ozawa, even though Hatoyama insisted that Ozawa
resign
when he was forced from the premiership three months ago.
Instead of being forced to
resign
after Rwanda and Srebrenica, he was promoted to Secretary-General.
Tony Blair’s Long GoodbyeIn early 1999, Paddy Ashdown, then the leader of Britain’s Liberal Democratic Party (and since then, as Lord Ashdown, Europe’s envoy in Bosnia), was found with a woman not his wife and forced to
resign
his post.
But we should neither
resign
ourselves to accepting a ramshackle framework for humanitarian intervention, nor underestimate the ability of international law to transform itself and, at the same time, transform societies globally.
Chaudhry’s suspension the previous March, following his refusal to bow to government pressure to resign, had incited relentless protests by Pakistan’s legal community and made him a symbol of the people’s desire for a fairer, more independent judicial system.
Markets have tumbled, Britain’s prime minister has announced that he will resign, and the UK is more divided than ever.
We must give up the hope of liberty within an ordered society and market and
resign
ourselves to that interminable war of all against all of which Hobbes spoke.
The referendum has become a litmus test for Renzi and his government partly because of his ill-considered warning earlier this year that he would
resign
if the proposed reform of the Senate (the parliament’s upper house) were voted down.
Where such personally beneficial laws are concerned, Premier Berlusconi is bull-headed, almost wrecking his coalition recently when one junior minister threatened to
resign
after the justice ministry sought to stop all investigations into Berlusconi's affairs.
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma finally buckled under pressure from his own party to
resign
the presidency.
Shareholder activists can also claim other (at least partial) victories at Yahoo!, where a shareholder activist forced the newly appointed CEO to
resign
for falsifying his educational credentials.
He used surprisingly nonacademic language – stating that “foolish” people who suggest that Dimon should
resign
or be replaced have a “false understanding” of how the system really works.
During the meeting, Suthep gave Yingluck a two-day deadline to
resign.
With the police failing to control the mobs in the streets without the help of the military, Yingluck decided to
resign
and dissolve parliament, declaring that she would lead a caretaker government until a new election is held on February 2.The date was endorsed by a “reform forum,” established to resolve the crisis and comprising Bangkok’s elite (including the military).
There is no reason to believe that Goodluck Jonathan will preemptively resign, and removing him from office if he assumes the presidency might well stoke unprecedented violence in the Delta.
On the Socialists’ side, huge cracks have appeared, exemplified in the decision of Christiane Taubira, the justice minister, to
resign
before having to make a stand for the bill.
Before that, McCotter led Utah's corrections department, but was forced to
resign
after the death of a schizophrenic inmate who had been stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair for 16 hours.
Of course, it would be more accurate to say that Berlusconi, who was forced to
resign
later that year, overthrew himself, through his displays of personal excess and financial corruption.
NEW YORK – At the outset of the ongoing violent protests in South Korea over imported beef from the United States, the entire cabinet of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak offered to
resign.
Nevertheless he had to resign, because his colleagues from the rightist, post-Solidarity party now in power decided that anyone merely accused by the special judge (even before conviction) must leave his (or her) job in government, parliament or the judiciary.
In these countries, ministers are forced to
resign
for petty infractions that would seem trivial in other countries.
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