Example sentences of "resigned as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sergei Shakhrai resigned as state counsellor for legal affairs on May 7 . |
| 3 | Gerald Ratner resigned as head of Ratner 's UK jewellery business . |
| 4 | On April 15 Winnie Mandela resigned as head of the social welfare department of the ANC . |
| 5 | However , shortly before Anne Burford resigned as chief of the EPA , she was due to announce her decision on whether to lift the ban in light of new evidence . |
| 6 | The crisis deepened when Nigel Lawson resigned as Chancellor in October after a disagreement with Professor Alan Walters . |
| 7 | At the very moment when Hurd was preparing to unveil the fruits of a long period of gestation in the form of a White Paper on criminal justice , Lawson resigned as Chancellor . |
| 8 | In March Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut resigned as Army C.-in-C. and made his long-awaited entry into civilian politics as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence in Prime Minister Maj.-Gen. |
| 9 | He later resigned as master because of disagreements with the fellows . |
| 10 | He resigned as Defence Secretary in July 1991 in order to pursue his presidential ambitions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the event Chauthala resigned as Chief Minister in mid-July , to be replaced by Hukam Singh , and Devi Lal resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in August [ see p. 37653 ] . |
| 13 | One week later Sir Charles Dobson resigned as chairman of the Paradise Corporation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dick Corden dropped a bombshell on relegation-haunted Darlington when he resigned as chairman yesterday . |
| 16 | DICK Corden yesterday resigned as chairman of Darlington Football Club which is threatened with relegation . |
| 17 | On July 31 , 1989 , Bernard Valcourt pleaded guilty in Edmundston , New Brunswick , to a charge of impaired driving due to the effects of alcohol , and resigned as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs and as Minister responsible for Canada Post . |
| 18 | Maneka Gandhi resigned as Minister of State for Environment and Forests on Oct. 26 [ for her appointment to the post in December 1989 see p. 37125 ] . |
| 19 | On March 28 , 1990 , Ervin Knowles resigned as Minister of Agriculture , Trade and Industry after being accused by members of the parliamentary opposition of corruption and nepotism in his role as chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation ( BAIC ) . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Marilies Flemming resigned as Minister for the Environment , Youth and Family Affairs on Feb. 27 when it was revealed that she had not fully declared all her sources of income before taking office 1990 . |
| 22 | Erwin Knowles resigned as Minister of Agriculture , Trade and Industry in March , and a Cabinet reshuffle was announced on Sept. 16 [ see below ; for full Cabinet list as of November 1990 see p. 37817 ] . |
| 23 | K. Ramamurthy resigned as Minister of State ( independent charge ) for Labour on July 29 after accusing Rao of failing to solve a dispute between the neighbouring southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the sharing of the waters of the Cauvary River . |
| 24 | Maneka Gandhi resigned as Minister of State for Environment and Forests in October [ see p. 37774 ] . |
| 25 | In January 1990 Meechai Ruchupan resigned as Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office [ see p. 37188 ] . |
| 26 | Aringo 's departure from the government was followed by several ministerial resignations , most notably that of Mwai Kibaki , who resigned as Minister of Health on Dec. 26 . |
| 27 | Rafael Eitan resigned as Minister of Agriculture on Dec. 24 in protest at Likud 's opposition to proposals for the direct election of the Prime Minister ; the Likud central committee had voted by a large majority on Dec. 23 against the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 28 | The Tehiya leader Yuval Ne'eman resigned his post as Minister of Science and Energy and Moledet leader Rehavam Ze'evi resigned as Minister without Portfolio , with effect from Jan. 21 . |
| 29 | On the same day Eeva Kuuskoski resigned as Minister for Social Affairs and Health and was replaced by Jorma Huuhtanen . |
| 30 | Etienne Goyemido resigned as Minister of Primary , Secondary and Technical Education and of Youth and Sports on May 2 in protest at the dismissal of four teachers and a watchman . |