Sentence examples for official quit from inspiring English sources

Seventy were killed, according to the Red Cross; a United Nations official quit in protest.

Meanwhile, his chief law-enforcement official quit in protest, a local sheriff called him an "idiot" and his approval rating sank from 54percentto35percentcent.

PAGE C1 Again, Florida Race Muddled Katherine Harris, Florida's top elections official, quit retroactively after missing a deadline to resign to run for Congress.

The last time a senior government official quit over his own job failure was more than twenty years ago, when Robert McFarlane, President Reagan's national-security adviser, resigned during the Iran-Contra scandal and, taking accountability to a Roman level, swallowed an overdose of Valium, out of "a sense of having failed the country".

Just 29percentt prefer that an accused official quit immediately.

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PAGE A3 Lincoln Center Official Quits Marshall Rose, the executive in charge of Lincoln Center's redevelopment project, resigned.

A1 Official Quits S.E.C. Post Stephen M. Cutler, the top law enforcement official for the Securities and Exchange Commission, said he would leave in a month.

McCain Official Quits COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb. 28 (AP) -- The co-chairman of John McCain's South Carolina campaign has resigned over Mr. McCain's attacks on Bob Jones University.

A5 British Official Quits Peter Mandelson -- Prime Minister Tony Blair's confidant, an architect of the Labor Party's 1997 victory and the chief planner of its coming election campaign -- resigned from the government.

Both officials quit after three months.