Tomlinson then hit out at the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, accusing her of having "quit the moral high ground" over the issue.
The primary victim of his unsuitedness to be PM is himelf The broadcaster committed a noble act of civil disobedience - as well as of mercy We should quit the moral high ground and let John Terry get on with being captain.
The next day, he is officially ordered to quit the place, on the ground, patently false, that it is unfit for human habitation.
"We mad gardeners don't quit until the ground is frozen," she said.
Following the concert, just prior to a tour of South Africa, Parsons quit the Byrds on the grounds that he did not want to perform in a racially segregated country (apartheid did not end in South Africa until 1994).
In treating the doctrinal points of belief, (as in his Sermon upon the Trinity,) Swift systematically refuses to quit the high and pre-eminent ground which the defender of Christianity is entitled to occupy, or to submit to the test of human reason, mysteries which are placed, by their very nature, far beyond our finite capacities.
Sometimes the severance is actually caused by bereavement, and sometimes by unsynchronised retirement: carrying on after Ronnie Barker quit The Two Ronnies on health grounds, Ronnie Corbett remained permanently in work but would always seem to be followed by a shadow.
Mr. Musharraf first fired Mr. Chaudhry in March 2007, but the chief justice refused to quit on the grounds that his dismissal was unconstitutional.
Lady Antonia has now quit on the grounds that we were asked to help without being told of the imminent rule-change that would open up the annual Man Booker to US writers and so alter the entire ecology of both awards.
All three quit the panel in mid-March after Seamus had a training ground row with manager McGrath but Sean was returned to the panel earlier this month.
