Sentence examples for elected to step down 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.

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.

If he is elected, he promises to step down halfway through his term to let his ally Kim Jong Pil take over the leadership.That does not sound, however, like a way of ensuring crisp and consistent decisions during the dark days ahead.

Many of these are thought to be biding their time until 2016, when Mr Obama, if re-elected, would have to step down, leaving no incumbent candidate.Nonetheless, the Republican field remains wide (see table).

Mr. Chavéz, a former paratrooper democratically elected in 1998, refuses to step down.

Britain's first directly elected Muslim mayor, forced to step down after a judge found him guilty of corrupt and illegal practices, is to challenge the decision through the courts.