Sentence examples for resigned as state from inspiring English sources

After refuting the charges and fighting off the threat to her position, she resigned as state agent in May 1864.

The party's candidate for governor, Bob McDonnell, who resigned as state attorney general to run, has also said Mr. Frederick should resign.

Furious at this reversal, Saigō resigned as state councillor and commander of the Imperial Guard and returned once more to his old home; several other high-ranking officials tendered their resignations also, while at a lower level, more than 100 officers of the Imperial Guard shared Saigō's retirement.

A spokesman for Mr. Earley, who resigned as state attorney general on Monday to campaign full time, said contributions from the businessman, Bruce M. Waldack, president of Thruport Technologies, had been sent back to "avoid the appearance of impropriety and keep this issue from becoming a distraction in this campaign".

"In the interest of preserving the progress made over the last year, I am resigning as State Senator for District 19, effective immediately," Hudak wrote in her resignation letter.

After resigning as state party chairman, McNary prepared to campaign for a full term in the Senate.

In September, his national campaign manager resigned, and, more recently, his South Carolina state coordinator resigned as well.

All the members of that panel recently resigned, as have other out-of-state researchers who reviewed CPRIT grant proposals, with some of them expressing concern about the integrity of the agency's process for awarding grants.

Stern, who resigned as Washington state's medical director for the department of corrections in protest over the state's execution policy in 2009, said he was "not fond" of prison healthcare privatisation and he did not believe it was necessary.

Now he is the only thing standing between Mr. Spitzer, who resigned as the state's governor in 2008 after patronizing prostitutes, and a return to political power.

Mr. Engler opposes vouchers, which has split Republican ranks wide open; Elisabeth DeVos, who strongly supports them, resigned as the state party chairman in order to back the campaign for the ballot initiative, which is known as Proposal 1.