Sentence examples for request to resign from inspiring English sources

There were also these developments today: The Clinton Resignation The court formally granted Bill Clinton's request to resign from the Supreme Court bar.

But I still wish President Obama had refused his request to resign.

The directors said that Mr. Rogen, 53, and L. McDonald Schetky, president, had initially refused a request to resign.

Despite a history of winning games, including three national championships, Knight demonstrated abusive behavior toward too many people, Brand said, and would have to leave his job after rejecting a request to resign.

James Brooke (NYT) PARAGUAY: FINANCE CHIEF FIRED -- In the latest phase of a cabinet shake-up that has seen the replacement of the head of the central bank, President Luis Gonzalez Macchi has fired Minister of Finance Federico Zayas after he refused a request to resign.

Lord Phillips of Sudbury, a City solicitor and philanthropist who advised the former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown, will instead take permanent leave of absence from the Lords this month after Tony Blair refused his request to resign and hand over to "new blood".

Vatican sources said the pope decided the candidate should be "earnestly requested" to resign only late on Saturday, after reading a dossier that had apparently been sent from Warsaw in late December.

The President is responsible for the internal organisation of the college (appointment of commissioners, distribution of portfolios, requests to resign under particular circumstances).

These efforts were successful in convincing Andros to request permission to resign, and in December 1698, Nicholson was given the governorship of Virginia.

The International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights ICCC) has written to the prime minister expressing "grave concern" at the government's request for Triggs to resign.

The Justice Party and the Swarajists supported the resolution while the Chief Minister P. Subbarayan opposed it and requested his ministers to resign.