Example sentences of "[verb] resigned from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allen Paulson , who runs Gulfstream , has resigned from the Chrysler board to try to launch a buy-out of the technology business . |
| 2 | AFTER barely a year in the job , Peter Ueberroth — famous for giving Los Angeles a profitable Olympic Games in 1984 — has resigned from the Rebuild Los Angeles ( RLA ) commission . |
| 3 | Solbourne Computer Inc 's vice president of marketing , Travis White , has resigned from the company for personal reasons . |
| 4 | Richard Page , who co-founded Next Computer Inc with Steve Jobs and was its top hardware executive , has resigned from the company , one of at least six departures in recent months , saying he 's ‘ burnt out . ’ |
| 5 | In another ear the sole consultant ophthalmologist has resigned from the district general hospital and bought a caravan which he is using to provide private consultations at fundholding practices . |
| 6 | Former England fast bowler Brian Statham , 62 on June 17 , has resigned from the Lancashire committee after 21 years for personal reasons . |
| 7 | Guisborough councillor Barbara Murrant , elected last May , has resigned from the town council . |
| 8 | THE DUKE of Westminster , said to be Britain 's richest man , has resigned from the Conservative Party , claiming it has gone off the rails . |
| 9 | Now that Hearts have decided to remain at a re-developed Tynecastle , Gulliver has resigned from the board . |
| 10 | PAT Grant , the joint managing director of the Caithness-based freezer manufacturer , Norfrost , has resigned from the board of Highlands and Islands Enterprise . |
| 11 | AN Independent member of Falkirk District Council , Billy Buchanan , has resigned from the licensing board in protest at John Constable , the SNP provost , continuing as its chairman , writes John Smith . |
| 12 | AN INDEPENDENT councillor on of Falkirk District Council , Billy Buchanan , has resigned from the licensing board in protest at John Constable , the SNP provost , continuing as its chairman . |
| 13 | This is all due to Sidcombe having resigned from the League . |
| 14 | Lacking a base in an institution , and having resigned from the Zoological Society after falling out with its Secretary , he was , as it were , writing his books in a void . |
| 15 | On Sept. 14 Compaoré officially announced his candidacy for the presidential elections , having resigned from the army in accordance with the new Constitution which barred the military from office . |
| 16 | This left the coalition with only 229 of the 450 seats in parliament ( 16 Kurdish MPs having resigned from the SHP earlier in the year — see pp. 38873 ; 38739 ) . |
| 17 | The amendment also specified that candidates had to have resigned from the armed forces or security forces . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Heseltine had resigned from the Cabinet in January 1986 over the Westland affair and had , since then , assiduously cultivated the party in the constituencies . |
| 20 | Edward Boyle , who had resigned from the previous Government over its management of the Suez crisis , became his Parliamentary Secretary . |
| 21 | Many of the mothers had resigned from the US Army Reserve . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course he would have married her , he was very devoted , ’ Aunt Kit said , deceiving herself , I-think , since he made no attempt to see my mother after she had resigned from the college and come home to her sisters . |
| 23 | However , because Mr Knight had resigned from the county council , the party refused to put his name on the list of nominees wanting to represent Harwich . |
| 24 | Within a few weeks he had resigned from the party and become the founder of a new movement , the British National Socialist League . |
| 25 | Ebenezer Judge had resigned from the Brotherhood when the Great War began ; he volunteered for the army , and was sent to Flanders . |
| 26 | In the meantime he had resigned from the excise and moved with his family to London , where the firm of Aeneas Coffey & Sons was established in 1835 for the manufacture of the new still . |
| 27 | Some years before lie had resigned from the forces for their sakes and was personnel manager of an oil refinery in Perth . |
| 28 | 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 . ] . |
| 29 | The Tokyo meeting , on June 4-5 , was attended by representatives of all four Cambodian factions , namely Hun Sen , Premier of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) , and , from the three elements of the National Government of Cambodia ( NGC , formerly known as the CGDK — see p. 37249 ) , Prince Norodom Sihanouk , NGC President ( the Prince had resigned from the presidency for three weeks during May ) , Son Sann , NGC Prime Minister and leader of the Khmer People 's National Liberation front ( KPNLF ) , and Khieu Samphan , NGC Vice-President and Khmer Rouge representative . |
| 30 | He had resigned from the Military Council in April 1989 and had subsequently been arrested and charged with illegal possession of arms and ammunition . |