When Siat comes to Gie's home to ask him to follow the former's new political leanings, heavily influenced by a monthly bursary of 2,000 gulden offered by an unnamed political party, Gie refuses: he instead resigns from the newspaper.
Instead, Mr. Davis resigned from the commission and the commission had to replace him with one of the four remaining justices, all of whom were Republican.
Instead, he resigned from his television station this month and announced he is running for state office in Virginia against a Republican opponent who was endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
While Mrs. Bloom chose to step down from the board, Mr. Henry, a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Breed Abbott & Morgan, chose instead to resign from the Democratic State Committee, according to his secretary.
Last August, she resigned from her job instead of being fired after the City Planning Department became aware of the investigation, a department spokeswoman said.
Parry resigned from it and instead allowed Jerusalem to be the anthem of the women's suffrage movement (of which he was a keen supporter).
Instead of facing re-election in 2015, he resigned from the position in June, forcing an early election this September.
Tabibian resigned from the P.B.O.
Dr. Potti resigned from Duke.
