Sentence examples for I stood down from inspiring English sources

I stood down from the podium and another took my place, reading name after name, British solders and Iraqis alike.

"I stood down from the frontbench over that because it was a massive storm that erupted that the Coalition simply didn't need," he said.

But when I stood down and I discovered that my poems hadn't vanished entirely; they had crept underground, and when they emerged again, I noticed a lot of them were about men fighting 20th-century western wars.

He confirmed that the chief executive of the EHRC, Nicola Brewer, later "gave me advice... that there would be a perceived conflict of interest and as a result I stood down as a director [of the company] in October 2008.

Although I stood down as CEO of HBOS in 2006, some three years before it was taken over by Lloyds, I have never sought to disassociate myself from what has happened.

As I stood down here, and saw how the new bridge hugs its older sister, they seemed to happily exist just for their own sake, unfazed by the busy metropolis surrounding them.

I've done over 20 years, and if I stand down now, at 59, there will still be time to do some different things.

But anyway, I stand down on that, too; I still think her blog is fun and interesting, and I look forward (in silence) to the rest of her correspondence with al Masri.

Clegg added: "I hope when I stand down there will be lots of people who will be after my job... Tim is an incredibly gifted politician and his own intentions he'll have to make clear when the time comes".

"I can confirm I have stood down effective immediately," Conlon told the Daily Telegraph.

"When I had my head injury and I was stood down for a year it was horrendous.