Example sentences of "to resign at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin 's first problem was whether to resign at once , or , as in 1923 , to wait and meet Parliament . |
| 2 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |
| 3 | G. M. Young suggested that he wavered before coming to his courageous decision not to resign at once . |
| 4 | ‘ He had asked the country for a mandate for Tariff Reform , this had been refused , and the honourable thing would be for him to resign at once . ’ |
| 5 | The immediate problem , like that of 1923 , was whether to resign at once or wait and meet Parliament . |
| 6 | Baldwin had intended to resign at once if Labour got a majority and this was still his instinct , but now he retired to Chequers where on 1 June came Davidson , Eyres Monsell , Austen Chamberlain and Hoare . |