Example sentences of "[verb] down as chairman " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his Mirror Group Newspapers is floated in April , Robert Maxwell is stepping down as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation , and making his son Kevin chief executive . |
| 2 | PETER Swales announced today that he was ready to stand down as chairman of trouble-torn Manchester City . |
| 3 | Ratner , 42 , stepped down as chairman but stayed on as chief executive . |
| 4 | If the deal goes through , Dr Brian Smith will step down as chairman of MB Group to make way for Murray Stuart , currently group chief executive . |
| 5 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 6 | Amid the growing City scandal , Ernest Saunders temporarily stepped down as Chairman and Chief Executive of Guinness and was subsequently dismissed . |
| 7 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 8 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 9 | As Hilary steps down as Chairman after what has proved to be a difficult and latterly sad term of office , Betty welcomed June Bascombe , who after two years as Vice-Chairman , a vantage point from which she has glimpsed what might be involved , has bravely accepted nomination as chairman and has been elected . |
| 10 | MICHAEL LAWRENCE , GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR , PRUDENTIAL CORPORATION The man from the Pru rings in the changes Last month , Hugh Collum stood down as chairman of the 100 Group after a successful two-year campaign raising its profile . |
| 11 | THE man who founded Swaledale Outdoor Club and inspired a spirit of adventure in thousands of people over the past quarter of a century stood down as chairman at this week 's annual meeting , prior to moving to South Africa . |
| 12 | NAZMU Virani is to step down as chairman and chief executive of Control Securities , after his arrest last Tuesday on charges connected with the failed Bank of Credit & Commerce International . |
| 13 | SPEAKING of his decision to step down as chairman , Sir Christopher told delegates that he was leaving the company in good hands . |