In 1988, he resigned from a position in the Justice Department in protest against Ed Meese, who was then the Attorney General.
He once resigned from a position as a probation officer in juvenile court after he was prohibited from hiring a black employee.
In a statement, through him, she said: "I thought it was important to make sure all board members were aware of what was going on even if doing so was unfortunate, sad and uncomfortable and even though it meant that I had to resign from a position within a cause that I will always hold near and dear".
One can, for instance, resign by saying, "I resign…", although one can also resign from a position without describing oneself as doing so.
People usually resign from a position through a private letter to the boss.
"You have so many people who were pushed off welfare who didn't find work in the beginning, and today there are so many people who can't get welfare at all," said Peter Edelman, a Georgetown University law professor who resigned from a senior position in the Clinton administration to protest the President's decision to sign welfare reform into law.
Having resigned from a university position that I was unhappy with, I had moved myself and my family to Cambridge, England, to finish a book I was then writing (on developmental genetics) and to look for funds for a research position at the University, in Michael Ashburner's lab where I had previously completed a sabbatical.
Put together, the compound verb literally means 'to come off stage' and has been metaphorically extended to mean 'to resign from an official position'.
Mr. Elizarov said he was resigning from his position as a project manager and was leaving Russia.
Grant Shapps, Feldman's co-chair until May, resigned from a junior ministerial position last month over his handling of the allegations.
