Example sentences of "resigned from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberals apparently entered into secret negotiations with both parties , a surprising development given that their leader , Economic Affairs Minister Itzhak Moda'i , had in 1986 resigned from a Cabinet headed by Peres after an acrimonious personal feud [ see p. 34770 ] ; Moda'i was also a noted supporter of leading hardliner Ariel Sharon . |
| 2 | After retirement he became a respected commentator , chairman of selectors and eventually president of Yorkshire ( 1981-4 ) until , saddened by the internal strife , he resigned from an office in which he took great pride . |
| 3 | He resigned from the board of Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation , a large creditor , last week , apparently to avoid a conflict of interest . |
| 4 | In any case , he was eager to start work upon another play and was trying to extricate himself from various official duties in order to give himself room for composition : he resigned from the board of the Christian News Letter , for example , on the grounds of lack of time . |
| 5 | Data Sciences UK Ltd appointed Andy Roberts , formerly ICL PLc 's mid-range systems manager to be its new group chief executive with immediate effect : Roberts replaces Mike Smith , who resigned from the firm . |
| 6 | Data Sciences UK Ltd appointed Andy Roberts , formerly ICL PLc 's mid-range systems manager to be its new group chief executive with immediate effect : Roberts replaces Mike Smith , who resigned from the firm . |
| 7 | Between October 1949 , when Sartre resigned from the Rassemblement Democratique Revolutionnaire , on the grounds that the RDR was an abstract political movement out of touch with the social reality of postwar France , and July 1952 , the date of publication in Les Temps modernes of " Les Communistes et la paix " , Sartre was drawn irreversibly , under the pressure of national and international events , towards close collaboration with the French communist party.38 For a period of four years in the early to mid 1950s , Sartre was consequently closely associated with the PCF . |
| 8 | There was a lot of emotive talk about the UK 's only helicopter company selling out to the Americans , but in the event the Sikorsky-Fiat minority involvement won the day and Heseltine resigned from the government . |
| 9 | Henderson resigned from the Government the next day . |
| 10 | Exasperated by the resistance of the Cabinet to new ideas he resigned from the Government and took his ease to the Labour party Conference in October 1930 , where he very nearly won it . |
| 11 | After Carson resigned from the government in November 1915 he became the acknowledged leader of the hardliners , organized in the Unionist War Committee . |
| 12 | In disgust Steel-Maitland resigned as Party Chairman and in 1919 he despaired of ever getting a senior post and resigned from the government too . |
| 13 | In November 1985 he resigned from the government in protest at the signing that month of the Anglo-Irish Agreement [ see pp. 34070-73 ] , stating that he could not support the government 's change of policy on Northern Ireland , including " the involvement of a foreign power in a consultative role in the administration of the province " , which he claimed would prolong and not diminish " Ulster 's agony " [ see p. 34072 ] . |
| 14 | On March 31 Mikis Theodorakis resigned from the government , leaving the ruling New Democracy party with a one-seat majority ; the National Economy Minister , Epthymios Christodoulou , had left his post on Feb. 10 to head the Bank of Greece , and was replaced by Stefanos Manos . |
| 15 | THE Italian agriculture minister , Gianni Fontana , yesterday resigned from the government after being targeted by a corruption probe . |
| 16 | He resigned from the Temple ; and to provide for the needs of his rapidly increasing family he was appointed as Rector of Boscom and prebendary of Salisbury , with the apparent understanding that he would continue to reside mainly in London , where he could find the books which he required for his great work , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity . |
| 17 | Louis Cha , the Hong Kong member who devised the system , and who resigned from the Drafting Committee in protest against Tiananmen , believes that the referendum would go in favour of democracy , but that the waiting-period would allow Hong Kong people to get used to new political responsibilities . |
| 18 | Gould resigned from the service of the Zoological Society but agreed to act as a ‘ corresponding Member ’ , so that his letters and discoveries could be read aloud at the meetings and published in the proceedings . |
| 19 | The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council . |
| 20 | In 1882 , when he went to London to become Director-General , his brother James resigned from the Survey and succeeded him as Professor . |
| 21 | In 1918 , after the vote had been granted to women over thirty , she resigned from the WFL presidency and devoted herself to a range of issues , including the Save the Children campaign , the Indian independence movement , theosophy , the Labour party and the early British Communist party , the London Vegetarian Society , and the Irish Self Determination League . |
| 22 | On Oct. 15 , 1990 , in the run-up to the general election , Senator Gertrude Eastmond resigned from the DLP and the Senate , claiming that the country was " heading for disaster " . |
| 23 | A further three MPs from Quebec resigned from the PCP on June 26 and , with others amongst the Quebec caucus threatening resignation , there emerged a possibility that the PCP could lose its overall majority in the federal parliament . |
| 24 | Rigby resigned from the army in August 1867 with the rank of major-general . |
| 25 | In 1925 he resigned from the army , and spent most of the rest of his long life travelling — mainly in western and central Asia — and studying birds , partly as cover for observing international politics . |
| 26 | Merritt resigned from the position of Works Superintendent and his post was taken by Mr A.E . |
| 27 | This lacuna has been made worse by the ILO 's lack of jurisdiction to examine South African labour legislation since South Africa resigned from the Organisation in 1964 . |
| 28 | Ian Paisley was once a member of the Shankill Road Lodge of the Orange Order and a lodge chaplain , but he resigned from the Order when the County Grand Lodge refused to expel Sir Robin Kinahan for attending a funeral service in a Roman Catholic chapel . |
| 29 | He resigned from the Conservatives after they threatened legal action over the loan . |
| 30 | He resigned from the Conservatives after they threatened legal action over the loan . |