Sentence examples for like resigned from inspiring English sources

Last year, when a Pentagon memo surmised that Afghanistan's mineral deposits might be worth as much as one trillion dollars, the prevailing reaction was something like resigned despair.

Facing a so complicated situation, scholars look like resigned.

More like resigned to his fate in the U.S. Open.

So when one of these people tells me they don't like something, I know that they have tried and tried to like it, resigned themselves to the nuances of their tastebuds and are ready for the giant eyeballs that come along with admitting you hate something that everyone else loves.

Mr Singh admitted: "Things are not entirely the way I would like them to be but, quite frankly, I never felt like resigning because I have a job to do".

Other options, like resigning or refusing to participate in the hearing and perhaps being fired, were unacceptable, he wrote; he could not afford to be out of work, and did not want to risk prolonging the men's imprisonment.

But sometimes a solely jaded response betrays our own complacency, like resigning yourself to the fact that there will always be people who think of racist slurs as banter, or those who think it is just fine to appropriate the symbols of others to give their own tepid existence some edge, or people who still wear bootcut jeans.

Since we're on the subject of how to do something uncomfortable like resigning, here is my road map. 1.

To create your own ideal life, Burnett and Evans recommend "starting where you are," improving the life that you are already living, without making disruptive structural changes like resigning your job or moving to another city.

To my mind, giving in to the inevitability of sporting less muscle and more fat each year is a bit like resigning yourself to your house getting dusty or your car getting rusty.

I, therefore, would like to resign as minister to take responsibility" for what he claimed his aides had done.