He knew that, in talking to the reporter, he had effectively resigned.
David Cameron has effectively resigned as Prime Minister after declaring an EU referendum a "red line" in any coalition negotiations, a senior Liberal Democrat MP has said.
The Knicks, however, are effectively resigned to losing Chris Copeland, their sweet-shooting forward, who is being pursued by the Indiana Pacers and Los Angeles Lakers, among others.
Asher & Partners in Los Angeles has effectively resigned its California antismoking assignment after seven years, the agency said, by deciding against participating in a mandated review for the account that began last month.
(Bergoglio, in a 2010 interview, said the priests were preparing to establish a new religious order, effectively resigning from the Jesuits).
On Monday, Aaron Porter announced that he would not run again for the NUS presidency – effectively resigning from the position after just one year in the role.
At this point, the Presiding Judge, Richard May, who had steered the trial through the pre-trial phase and through most of the Prosecution's case-in-chief, resigned effectively on 1 June 2004, due to ill health, and Judge Patrick Robinson took over as the Presiding Judge of the trial.
"I did find a situation in which you effectively had to resign in public very difficult, and it wasn't something I'd expected at all," he says.
WASHINGTON — Senator John Ensign of Nevada, the subject of an ethics investigation related to his affair with the wife of a former top aide, announced Thursday evening that he was resigning, effectively ending the high-profile Senate inquiry that had already ruined his once-promising political career.
Despite promises given by the Entente on Constantine's departure, the previous prime minister, Zaimis, was effectively forced to resign as Venizelos returned to Athens.
In an ad released earlier this month, Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — who took over the company nine months ago, after former CEO Travis Kalanick was effectively forced to resign — promised to "move in a new direction".
