But he said the "thumping victory" in this month's local elections in Wales over which he presided provided a suitable moment to step aside.
The sight of Hughes and the sound of City's fans berating their team in unison as early as the 27th minute provided a suitable verdict.
Closely associated with this romanticism was the notion that decor of this kind was somehow raffish and provided a suitable setting for any form of male self-indulgence.
Soon, however, he found that the novel provided a suitable structure for his style of writing, enabling both psychological analysis of character and philosophical digression.
Yet in its youth it was, like its gentler sister Earth, swathed in oceans that provided a suitable breeding ground for life.
Defect propagation tests provided a suitable defect growth fatigue curve.
This should see action very soon, provided a suitable rock can be identified.
The nanocomposites provided a suitable microenvironment for GOD to retain its biological activity.
This provided a suitable duration limit needed to reproduce the observed erosivity.
FTIR measurements provided a suitable method for identifying the structure of BN films.
Polychaete assemblage provided a suitable picture of the impact gradient, being correlated with total free sulphides.
