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My dad actually resigned from the male-only business club in my hometown because he said he would never be part of an organization that would one day welcome his son, but not his daughter.
Lots of people resigned from well-paid jobs and jumped into the National Movement.
In protest over this, blogger Slim Amamou, who had been jailed under Ben Ali and then became part of the transitional government after the revolution, he resigned in protest from the cabinet.
And over the course of the next eight or nine days, they resigned themselves to what was happening.
Eventually, I resigned as principal investigator on our Venus experiment because a planet changing before our eyes is more interesting and important.
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.
The country was divided again, so much that our parliament resigned, we had no president for a year, and no prime minister.
PM: And after that, resigned and began what has been a very slow and challenging recovery.
Augustus worked to restore the Senate’s prestige, improved food security for the lower classes, and relinquished control of the army when he resigned his consul post.
An America that still dreams, still strives, still imagines that tomorrow can build on today, and an America that has resigned to fate, buckled under stress and chaos, lowered expectations, an ducked into the oldest of refuges: the tribal fellowship of one's own narrow kind.
Just as I had resigned myself to being single for the rest of my life, I met Joan.
He resigned before it could happen knowing he would almost certainly be convicted.
The Prime Minister of Iceland has resigned.
Within five days, the president, along with dozens of other government officials, resigned already.
So it came as an immense shock to me when I woke up on the morning of June 24 to discover that my country had voted to leave the European Union, my Prime Minister had resigned, and Scotland was considering a referendum that could bring to an end the very existence of the United Kingdom.
Then later he changed his mind when our prime minister resigned following the infamous Panama Papers that implicated him and his family.
And yeah, but what this also tells me is that we've resigned ourselves to this as the status quo because we have to.
She was resigned.
Some of you are old enough to remember: he was the chairman of the House of Representatives, and he resigned in disgrace when this young Republican named Newt Gingrich found out about a shady book deal that he had done.
Obviously a low-quality picture, both visually and dramatically, with a rather resigned Burt, but not unwatchable.
Unfortunately the fairly capable actors I have mentioned are resigned to relatively small roles in comparison to the dramatic driftwood that is Kerrigan and Saira Todd, both of whom seem to have been in Casualty for too long, and haven't yet learned to act.
I think the best thing in the film is Tanaka's heartbreaking performance as the lonely milk woman, who has resigned herself to being alone for the rest of her life.
And, Natalie Portman deflects each attack on her character's ego with the resigned grace of an intelligent codependent child, untainted by the smug cynicism of the Natasha Lyonne character in "Slums of Beverly Hills".
All of them looked perfectly stiff and resigned, as if, by putting forth as little effort as possible, they expected to fade unnoticed into lovely period sets.
She is engaged to marry Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), a bland man, more out of a resigned duty than actual love.
She completely dominates the amiable Mr J.Stewart who seems resigned to handing her the movie.Misses E.Lanchester and H.Gingold offer comic relief along with Mr E. Kovacs whose peculiar talents are strictly proscribed.Mr J.Lemmon plays Miss Novak's brother.He is a beatnik,a species that disappeared as soon as it realised that its existence was being acknowledged by the mainstream.Some of the more hardcore beats reinvented themselves as hippies a few years later.Certainly they had become figures of fun by 1958 and Mr Lemmon does not appear overly concerned with restraint in portraying one.
At the toss of a coin he decides the most important things in his life, and he seems resigned to accept whatever his destiny will bring up, until circumstances force him to react and face the enormous obstacles that stand between himself and the woman he loves(Theresa Wright).
Once I was resolute in my continuing to sit through the most dissatisfying film I'd ever seen I was less fidgety and distressed; I had resigned to how much the movie frustrated me.
It was as though the veterans of the series were just going through the motions because they had resigned themselves (with great resentment) to being typecast and performed mechanically out of some sort of obligation (or necessity?).
There have been many paradoxes on Earth such as Soviet Premier Stalin enjoying learning Western Cowboy movie English, A resigned President Nixon traveling to China as an American representative, the faking of the death of Chinese Canadian Doctor Bethune.
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