Sentence examples for election to resign from inspiring English sources

"We waited until after the election to resign, and we really tried to uphold the integrity of anyone who came before us".

What makes this problem a crisis is the pledge that the Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble, made before the general election to resign as first minister of the devolved Assembly on July 1st, unless the IRA honoured a year-old promise to start "putting its weapons beyond use", as the curious language of Irish peacemaking puts it.

The polls hadn't even been open five hours before New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson began publicly calling for the executive director of New York's Board of Elections to resign.

The Supreme Court's spokesman also urged the much-criticised election commissioners to resign.

He might have chosen election day to resign from TBWA/London and announce the formation of Beattie McGuinness Bungay, which boasts Sky News and FCUK as its first clients and currently operates out of a friend's borrowed office in Soho, but the move only increased his prestige.

Mr Blatter still won re-election, only to resign under a cloud of scandal days later.

"Today's demonstration is enough for President Chávez to see the need to call for elections or to resign," said Carlos Fernández, a leader in the opposition movement and president of the country's largest business federation.

Nearly a year after the May 2006 electoral disaster, Ohio's new secretary of state, Jennifer Brunner, asked the entire four-person Cuyahoga elections board to resign, and Platten — then the interim director of the board — was tapped to clean up the mess.

Mr Tadic had dithered until only weeks before the parliamentary election before deciding to resign and call an early presidential election too.

The party was routed by Labor in the June election, prompting Mr. Hague to resign, and it is desperately trying to select a new leader with the stature to challenge Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The poll was put at risk last week when Iraq's election commissioners threatened to resign over what they said was political and judicial interference in their work.