Sentence examples for close to resigning from inspiring English sources

Even Mr. Sanford concedes he was "very, very close" to resigning.

Luis Carranza, the finance minister, came close to resigning over the decree.

The Brexit secretary David Davis came very close to resigning on Thursday over a date.

There was even speculation that he might be close to resigning.

Tillerson also took pains to deny that he was ever close to resigning from his Cabinet post.

Last summer, after Trump gave a wacko speech to the Boy Scouts of America, an organization Tillerson used to lead, Tillerson reportedly came close to resigning.

She does not seem to have big ideological differences with Mr Calderón, and in the past was close to him, resigning from her cabinet position in 2006 to coordinate his campaign for the presidency at a time when he was still the underdog.

But sources close to the resigning cabinet minister said Duncan Smith was pressured into devising and announcing the cuts just before the budget, specifically so that they could be written into the Treasury's "red book" and scored as billions of pounds in savings.

Michael Short, a White House press aide considered close to Priebus, resigned on Tuesday after Scaramucci publicly spoke about firing him.

Power, who is close to Obama, resigned March 7 after being quoted in the Scotsman newspaper saying that Clinton "is a monster" and that "she is stooping to anything...

There have been calls for Lord Feldman, who is one of David Cameron's closest friends, to resign over his alleged failure to deal with the culture of bullying apparently been rife in parts of the Conservative Party.