After Berlusconi delayed his resignation, raising fears he might try to cling to power, the interest rate on Italy's government bonds shot above 7% to a level no eurozone state has reached without subsequently needing a bailout.
"Why is Papandreou delaying his resignation?" Mr. Samaras said Saturday that he still supported the European debt deal, including the tough fiscal deficit targets set by Greece's creditors.
She recalls various conversations with Blair and concludes that he seemed to have been manipulating her, making promises to keep her on side and to delay her resignation, a postponement that damaged her credibility.
David J. Barram, administrator of general services, told aides today that he would delay his resignation by two weeks, from this Friday until Dec. 15, so he would be on the job long enough to hand over the keys to the transition offices to the incoming president.
"A resignation delayed is a disgrace multiplied," Flynn added.
The announcement of the new peerages had been planned for July, but was delayed after the resignation of Lord Sewel, the peer who was allegedly filmed taking cocaine in the company of a sex worker.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--A multifaceted review of the country's R&D policies may be delayed by the resignation last Friday of Science Minister Peter McGauran, who got caught up in a governmentwide scandal over the misuse of travel expenses.
Riordan even wrote Gates' much-delayed resignation letter.
Meanwhile, the Syria crisis has strained the capacity of Lebanese security forces to tamp down sectarian violence, forced the prime minister's resignation and delayed elections, fracturing Lebanon's fragile democracy.
When acceptance of Battenberg's resignation was delayed by the King's opposition to the appointment of Fisher in his place, Louis wrote to Churchill, "I beg of you to release me.
"His resignation, albeit somewhat delayed, was probably inevitable and clearly for the best.
