Sentence examples for elected to step from inspiring English sources

Financial services provider Countrywide Financial said Monday it named Eric P. Sieracki as executive managing director and chief financial officer, effective April 1. Thomas K. McLaughlin, who served as Countrywide's CFO since 2001, has elected to step down from the role to focus on personal interests and has agreed to remain with the company in an advisory capacity.

Several of Grassley's Republican colleagues also referred to Biden's speech for precedent, a move that Democratic Senator Al Franken called "insulting", noting that the comments were made on the last day of the supreme court term when justices sometimes elect to step down.

Many groups have been demanding that the Supreme Court resign, others want to repudiate the foreign debt, while some are calling for Mr. Duhalde and all other elected officials to step down so that elections can be held.

The U.A.W. requires elected leaders to step down at the end of their term after they turn 65, and the leadership caucus reaffirmed that rule Wednesday.

Clarence Clarke, a fire captain at United Nations headquarters who organized the repudiated election, said he felt he had been "set up," so the polling officers that he and other union members had elected refused to step down.

Worried that the taint of the scandal, which comes after a succession of ethical questions surrounding the administration and the governor's fund-raisers, may damage the entire party, some senior Democratic leaders spent the weekend searching for ways to ease Mr. McGreevey off the stage and persuade Mr. Corzine, the state's most popular elected official, to step in.

The students called for the Zimmerman's arrest, and for elected officials to step down.

A day after one RNC member called on the newly elected chair to step down from his perch, another publicly rapped the Maryland Republican for the histrionics he has brought to the post.

Now, as the board considered a national search for the best qualified leader, Mr. Vann, recently elected to the City Council, stepped in.

Speaking of, what are the chances that Seth Meyers, who also has the blue eyes, boyish face, and skill to pull off the role, would elect himself to step away from the anchor desk and channel Paul Ryan?

Once a week, Judge López Torres, who in 1992 became the first Latina elected to the Civil Court in New York City, steps out at the lunchtime salsa classes at the courthouse.