Sentence examples for resigned to turn from inspiring English sources

Harper resigned as leader of the Conservative Party but held on to his seat in the House of Commons until August 2016, when he resigned to turn his attention to the consulting company that he had established in December 2015.

Resigned to turning back, Gil suddenly saw five Burmese faces peering down at him from the top of the bank.

Presented with the sometimes problematic recordings and resigned to turning it over to a different record company, Hendrix expressed his dissatisfaction with the final product.

"If you want a huge project in Thailand worth billions of baht, you have to talk to Thaksin," Mr. Sondhi, who seemed resigned to the turn of events, said in an interview.

Elissa Gootman (NYT) MANHATTAN: TOP VALLONE AIDE RESIGNS -- Bruce Bender, the chief of staff to the City Council speaker, Peter F. Vallone, resigned yesterday to turn his attention to next year's city government elections.

I stopped, resigned to the inevitable, and turned to face the cashier.

Hung upside down, they turn limp, resigned to their fate except for the occasional mild jab at their captor's hand.

By comparison, Ms. Klein said her classmates seemed resigned to waiting for the economic tides to turn.

Most of the villagers turn away from Dahai and his protests, laughing and grimacing by turns, seemingly resigned to what some might be called fate.

Colleagues say Mr. Zhang appeared demoralized by the turn of events but resigned to closing the company.

On July 18th Bob Pittman, the company's chief operating officer and the merger's biggest cheerleader, resigned, having failed to turn round troubled AOL.