Sentence examples for quitting shortly from inspiring English sources

When Mr Cameron entered Downing Street the former journalist took on duties heading the Number 10 spin operation, quitting shortly before he was arrested over the phone-hacking scandal.

Mr. Ma's sister quit shortly after her brother's death.

(Mr. Batt quit shortly after reporting on the officers).

A group of Native Americans from Nebraska and students from Kyrgyzstan also quit shortly after starting.

Mr. Stewart, 57, played trumpet professionally through college but quit shortly afterward.

He quit shortly before Collins & Aikman filed for bankruptcy protection last year.

She quit shortly thereafter with instructions that Gunther remain with the circus.

When the House quit shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, 30 bills were stuck at the bottom of the calendar.

The chief executive of the Engelhard Corporation, Barry W. Perry, quit shortly after shareholders agreed to a $5 billion hostile takeover by the German chemical company BASF, Engelhard said.

Mr Durov had tendered his resignation in March, complaining that he was being hampered by a private-equity firm in Moscow that bought a 48% stake in VK last year, but he withdrew his notice to quit shortly afterwards, saying "I'm not going anywhere".

One of Britain's leading architects – the firm behind the Scottish Parliament, Abu Dhabi's striking Capital Gate and Europe's tallest building, the proposed Gazprom Tower in St Petersburg – suffered a damaging blow when its managing director quit shortly after embarrassing emails criticising him were leaked.