Sentence examples for resignation to accept from inspiring English sources

First, he succeeded Kentucky governor John W. Stevenson upon the latter's resignation to accept a seat in the United States Senate in 1871.

The taxi-chauffeur who took Bullitt to the station, after his resignation, refused to accept any pay.

A 22-party coalition, including the two biggest non-Maoist parties, the Nepali Congress (NC) and the UML (for "Unified Marxist-Leninist), is campaigning for his resignation and refusing to accept elections without it.

But when she tried to hand in her resignation, Epstein refused to accept it and insisted that she stay in Liverpool, travelling down to London to the offices in Monmouth Street a few days a month.

Vatican officials said that Cardinal O'Brien's resignation was linked to the fact that he was approaching his 75th birthday and the Pope was keen to accept resignations and get business going ahead of his own resignation taking effect.

Mr. Barnevik said his resignation was in part to accept responsibility for the company's poor recent performance.

"I've got a pumpkin in each end of my bag!" Once he had both men's resignation letters, he refused to accept either one, and sent the men identical letters saying so.

Each time he resigned something drew him back, whether it was because his party refused to accept his resignation or because the new leader stepped down.

On 12 August Piłsudski tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Wincenty Witos, offering to be the scapegoat if the military solution failed, but Witos refused to accept his resignation.

Mr Farage has been mocked over the past week for resigning as party leader before announcing that Ukip's executive committee had refused to accept his resignation and he would be staying on.

BP's board would then need to decide whether to accept his resignation.