Sentence examples for i stood down from inspiring English sources

I stood down from the podium and another took my place, reading name after name, British solders and Iraqis alike.

"I stood down from the frontbench over that because it was a massive storm that erupted that the Coalition simply didn't need," he said.

But when I stood down and I discovered that my poems hadn't vanished entirely; they had crept underground, and when they emerged again, I noticed a lot of them were about men fighting 20th-century western wars.

He confirmed that the chief executive of the EHRC, Nicola Brewer, later "gave me advice... that there would be a perceived conflict of interest and as a result I stood down as a director [of the company] in October 2008.

Although I stood down as CEO of HBOS in 2006, some three years before it was taken over by Lloyds, I have never sought to disassociate myself from what has happened.

"My view right from the moment I stood down was that I'm not going to get into a running commentary on my successor, and I think that's the right position.

I've done over 20 years, and if I stand down now, at 59, there will still be time to do some different things.

But anyway, I stand down on that, too; I still think her blog is fun and interesting, and I look forward (in silence) to the rest of her correspondence with al Masri.

"I can confirm I have stood down effective immediately," Conlon told the Daily Telegraph.

"When I had my head injury and I was stood down for a year it was horrendous.

I'd stood down by then".