Sentence examples for resigned to start from inspiring English sources

Rahv won the right to see manuscripts, but in 1969 he resigned to start his own magazine.

But last April, she abruptly resigned to start her own film and television company and spend more time with her family.

Though he introduced a number of academic reforms, he did not find fundraising a congenial occupation and resigned to start a private consultancy.

Eight years later, after Kirkland told him he could not keep his growing list of telecommunications clients because they posed a potential conflict with another lawyer's telephone industry client, Mr. Wiley resigned to start his own firm.

Barely a generation ago, advertising agencies watched with what amounted to blithe indifference as their heads of media planning, hacked-off at their lowly status, resigned to start their own businesses.

Most recently, Jeffrey B. Larson, who was paid $17.4 million last year for managing a portion of Harvard's assets, resigned to start his own money management firm, with a $500 million investment from the university.

So, when she decided to resign to start her own consulting business after wrapping up the repair project, she expected at least to get an attractive counteroffer.

Research to be presented at the Royal Economic Society's annual conference this week at the University of Sussex finds that people who resign to start a new job are little happier than before.

Catherine Colonna, President Jacques Chirac's spokeswoman and one of his closest advisers for the last nine years, will resign to start a new career next month as director of the National Center of Cinematography, the magazine L'Express reported.

And at the New York office of FCB Worldwide, part of True North Communications, Sam Gulisano, executive vice president and co-executive creative director since October with Rich Russo, is resigning to start his own shop, the agency said.

Gore's aides, suddenly animated after being resigned to defeat, started briefing the media that a recount was mandatory when the margin of victory was so low.