Example sentences of "who [verb] resigned from the " in BNC.

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1 In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party .
2 Edward Boyle , who had resigned from the previous Government over its management of the Suez crisis , became his Parliamentary Secretary .
3 In resigning the South Bronx district seat which he had held since 1978 , Garcia followed the example of fellow Democrat Mario Biaggi who had resigned from the House of Representatives in August 1988 after being convicted in connection with the Wedtech affair [ ibid . ] .
4 Mann , who had resigned from the Lok Sabha in October in protest at the recent extension of President 's rule in the state [ see p. 37775 ] , had previously been authorized to represent two other Akali Dal factions ( Badal and Longowal ) at the talks .
5 The President of the Russian Federation , Boris Yeltsin ( who had resigned from the CPSU in July 1990 — see p. 37617 ) , issued a decree on July 20 banning the activities of all party political organizations from enterprises and government bodies , both republican and union , within the Russian Federation , with effect from Aug. 4 .
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