Sentence examples for committee quit from inspiring English sources

Pedro Sánchez ignored calls to step down as leader of the Spanish Socialist party (PSOE) on Thursday, insisting he was still in charge despite an attempted coup that saw more than half the party's executive committee quit in a bid to topple him and break Spain's nine-month electoral deadlock.

Prompted by the White House refusal to pay the full federal share of special education costs, Senator James M. Jeffords, the Republican chairman of the Senate education committee, quit his party and became an independent, swinging power in the Senate to the Democrats.

When one member of the committee quits or dies, the remaining four appoint his replacement.

George A. Farkas, a former member of the screening committee who quit last month, called Mr. Batra's resignation from the committee "a step in the right direction".

A few committee members quit in protest.

Anil Khanna, treasurer of the organising committee, has quit over accusations of graft.

If the second attempt fails, the chairman of the remuneration committee should quit.

Krause was once on the Hall's voting committee and quit, he said, primarily because he could not get Winter — in his educated opinion a basketball savant — his ceremonial due.

For example, the Blackstone Group, an Adelphia bondholder, had been a member of the company's unsecured creditors committee but quit the group and is now asking for a sale.

The labor movement's efforts to develop a unified strategy to defeat President Bush in 2004 stumbled this week when the chairman of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s political committee angrily quit the board of a new labor-backed group aimed at mobilizing nonunion voters, taking the two other board members with him.

Because they would not have fared well under the proposed reorganization plan, some members of the unsecured creditors committee, like the Blackstone Group, quit the committee and, along with equity investors, began pushing Adelphia to consider a sale.