Example sentences of "[pers pn] resign as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on Dec. 17 he resigned as Minister without Portfolio in Kohl 's Cabinet and as deputy leader of the CDU ( although not as a Bundestag member ) . |
| 2 | A year ago when he resigned as chairman , it was widely held that he had been pushed and that Peter Moores was about to mount another bid for the post himself . |
| 3 | Dick Corden dropped a bombshell on relegation-haunted Darlington when he resigned as chairman yesterday . |
| 4 | It was fairly standard practice for retiring ministers to receive a departing gift : John Stoughton , for example , received a magnificent gift of £4,000 when he resigned as pastor of the Congregational church in Kensington in 1874 . |
| 5 | He resigned as Defence Secretary in July 1991 in order to pursue his presidential ambitions . |
| 6 | Ruckelshaus , a republican lawyer , also hit the headlines when he resigned as Deputy Attorney-General in the midst of the Watergate crisis rather than fulfil President Nixon 's order to fire Archibald Fox , the special prosecutor . |
| 7 | Kevin Maxwell has been appointed to his first job since he resigned as director of Mirror Group Newspapers following the collapse of Robert Maxwell 's business empire . |
| 8 | He resigned as party leader in October 1990 but remained as Prime Minister , at the head of a coalition government of " national unity " [ see p. 37862 ] . |
| 9 | Eyadema refused to accede to demands that he resign as head of state prior to the conference , but agreed to abide by its decisions . |