Sentence examples for rules to resign from inspiring English sources

The public knows their names, the early polls rank them by preference, and as soon as the first candidate falls more than 10 points behind someone else, he or she is required by party rules to resign to make way for another.

And then there are cases in which candidates, in defiance of party rules, refuse to resign.

He looks unlikely to climb back into the leadership position which, according to House rules, he had to resign when he was indicted in September.

Full disclosure: Before this newspaper's conflict-of-interest rules required me to resign, I served on an Enron advisory board that turns out to have been a hatchery for future Bush administration officials.

The federal rules require a judge to resign from office when he or she becomes a candidate for political office.

At that time, Tom Perkins was not a board member — he was seventy-two, and company rules had required him to resign at seventy.

Under Senate rules, he will not have to resign if he is convicted.

Nasheed, who became the Maldives' first democratically elected president in 2008 after 30 years of autocratic rule, claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint and has challenged Waheed to resign and order an immediate election.

She fell foul in 1952 of the "iniquitous" rule which meant that women had to resign if they got married.

Mubarak ruled Egypt for three decades before he was forced to resign on February 11 , 2011following 18 days of mass protests.

In this cohort, this pattern might be related to the "marriage bar" rule, which until the late 1960s/early 1970s forced female civil servants to resign if they got married (43).