Resignation
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272 examples of Resignation in a sentence
In the country once known for its passive resignation, where, as bad as things got, only four percent expressed their opinion to a public official, today 90 percent tell us that if there's a problem in their community, it's up to them to fix it.
I can only have faith in it, commit myself, that is, to the idea of it, and I do this precisely because of the temptation to throw up my hands in
resignation
and retreat into silence.
And it's this gap between 96 and 91 that explains our politics of
resignation.
Whether your response to poverty is
resignation
or revolution, depends on how you understand the sources of your poverty.
And on the 3rd of July 2013, the army ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, after three days of popular protest that demanded his
resignation.
Juan left, laughing in resignation, and we continued with our pregame talk.
I don't know where I found the strength, but I wrote my letter of
resignation.
She wrote this poem when she was 18 years old in 1888, and I look at it as kind of a very sweet feminist manifesto tinged with a little bit of defiance and a little bit of
resignation
and regret.
I found that after thirty minutes I felt the familiar
resignation
that I had just wasted my time on another modern crap-fest.
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.
Through all this, Konchalovksy zeroes in on the individual, with care and affection to examine the bitter longing and regret of the woman who waited 6 years after the war for a fiancé who never came back, waited long enough to go out and become a barmaid in a ship with velvet couches and which she quit years later to come back to her village to care for an aging uncle who killed the fiancé's father with an axe, the irreverent folly of the fiancé who came back from the war a hero 20 years too late, came back not for the sake of the girl he left behind but to drill oil for the motherland, the despair and
resignation
of the middle-aged Regional Party Leader who comes back to his small Siberian village with the sole purpose of blotting it out of the map to build a power plant.
She lies with Gilson in total
resignation
even though she hates him.
Lemmon's character takes down names, mutters to himself, and alternates between exasperated expressions and
resignation
that I found very amusing.
Thomas (Tom Skerritt) is the fire chief for NYC but, he is about to submit his
resignation.
While there are a few misfires (such as the patriotic image of the British flag after an Englishman's heroic death), it is all-in-all a fabulous picture, a rugged tale of friendship, durability, disappointment and
resignation.
The local sheriff is faced with an angry community leader demanding an end to the matter, or his
resignation.
This was followed in February by the ignominious
resignation
of European cheerleader Martin Schulz as leader of the Social Democrats.
The OECD thinks these cuts are still insufficient, but Germany's usually polite unions now speak of "acts of force" and 350,000 people demonstrated last June in Bonn to protest the import of "capitalism American style" and demand the Chancellor’s
resignation.
Defections from Prime Minister Barak’s government and coalition, including the
resignation
of his foreign minister, David Levy, who refused to accompany Barak to Washington, will make the negotiations even more dramatic.
For example, in August 1931 – the middle of the Great Depression – a financial crisis and a run on the pound forced the
resignation
of the Labour government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald; it was replaced by a coalition government, and the Labour Party split apart.
But it would be a mistake to view this as a fight between the executive and the judiciary, or as an attempt to cover up charges that have led to the
resignation
of three ministers.
In South Africa, Jacob Zuma’s
resignation
allowed Cyril Ramaphosa to become president.
The recent
resignation
en masse of Jacques Santer and the 19 other members of the European Commission in the wake of a damning report on fraud and mismanagement may unintentionally play the same role in the EU.
But the struggle which led to the
resignation
of the Commission implies that such a power is operationally within reach.
So the paradox is that the
resignation
of the outgoing Commission has had political consequences which are the opposite of those assumed by conventional wisdom.
Musharraf’s Ambiguous LegacyPakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s
resignation
brings to an end one of the more interesting curiosities of subcontinental politics: for more than four years, Pakistan had a president who was born in India, while India had a Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) who was born in Pakistan.
In announcing his
resignation
on December 31 Boris Yeltsin may have succeeded on both counts, assuring not only his personal safety, but his place in history and Russia's infant democracy.
see] that a strong foundation of our judicial system should be laid,” they wrote in their
resignation
letter.
Strasbourg’s Trial of StrengthLONDON: The withdrawal of the censure vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 14th, which would have forced the
resignation
of all of the members of the Council of Ministers, should not be judged simply on whether such a vote was won or lost, but mainly as a fundamental turning point in the relationship between the European Parliament and the Commission.
Since the Commission is an essential part of the administration and policy-making of the Union, the mass
resignation
of the Commissioners would inevitably plunge the Union into a state of confusion and paralysis, or worse.
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