My professional experience is of officers sitting behind desks for months, even years, unable to progress within their career or even resign from the police.
Congress is constantly at a political stalemate with threats of government shutdowns commonplace and former House speaker John Boehner even resigning from his position, later telling Politico that deadlock was a large part of his decision.
McPeek, who is gay, quickly returned to the stage to apologize and later that evening resigned from the organization.
He became the eighth president of Columbia College in 1842, and even after he resigned from the position in 1849, he continued to serve as a Trustee until 1851.
Even though he resigned from the government at the end of April, he will not disappear from Mr Blair's kitchen cabinet.
Tom DeLay suggested that he might not be ready for retirement just yet, a day after a federal judge ruled that his name must remain on the November ballot even though he resigned from Congress.
But as the city absorbed the disclosures this week that Mr. Weiner had continued exchanging sexual messages online — even after he resigned from Congress, checked into therapy and pledged to re-devote himself to his wife and child — the high regard for Ms. Abedin turned to bafflement.
Since 1974, when he took over the artistic directorship of the Bouffes du Nord in Paris, his work has been characterised by its clarity, lightness and distilled elegance; and, even though he resigned from the Bouffes in 2008, a desire to cut through the dead wood of tradition still gives his work its distinctive signature.
On one hand, even though Jobs resigned from Apple more than a week ago, there appears to be no let up in the flood of anecdotes about The Great Leader.
Even after he resigned from the World Bank in 1981, the war kept tugging at him.
