From the far left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, eliminated in the first round of presidential voting, declared: "Thirty billion euros withdrawn from economic circulation in France — that necessarily, inevitably, absolutely spells collapse".
On 25 December, the journal declared the paper withdrawn.
The Texas petition, with 125,746 signatures, declared that withdrawing from the Union was "practically feasible" since the state had a balanced budget.
But it faced sharp criticism from China for its outspoken support of Taiwan and from Europe and elsewhere for its abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 treaty aimed at reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, and for its declared intention to withdraw from the 1972 Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (it formally withdrew from the treaty in 2002).
That is a rare occurrence, but North Korea declared it was withdrawing in 2003, and inspectors were thrown out.
"In the three years [since the article], you can say that all [Reed Elsevier's] electronic publishing projects are in a stage of redevelopment or have been withdrawn," declares media analyst Jeff Meys at ABN Amro in London.
Since troops were deployed when an emergency was declared, Boko Haram has withdrawn from its urban base in Maiduguri to the vast Sambisa forest, along the border with Cameroon.
And a suggestion by Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude that people store fuel in a jerrycan in the garage was later declared a mistake and withdrawn, after being condemned as potentially dangerous.
The move comes a week after the Franken campaign -- clinging to a self-proclaimed four vote lead -- withdrew an additional 600 challenges that they deemed without merit, and a few days after the Coleman camp declared that it would withdraw 650 such challenges.
London assembly member Peter Whittle declared he was withdrawing his candidacy and offering his support to the frontrunner Paul Nuttall.
