Saakashvili staged his resignation on Monday by calling an outdoor press conference and pouring vitriol on the man who appointed him, President Petro Poroshenko.
Today's balloting was originally expected to be an act of routine validation since it was Mr. Trimble who was credited with conceiving the staged-resignation strategy that helped secure the long-sought Protestant goal of I.R.A. disarmament.
Prominent public figures staged high-profile resignations from JPR's board.
The focus of Hugh Whitemore's play A Letter of Resignation, first staged at the Comedy Theatre in October 1997, was Macmillan's reactions to Profumo's resignation letter, which he received while on holiday in Scotland.
Opposition parties called for the finance minister's resignation and staged a sit-in at parliament.
The riot police tore down the protesters' tents on the fifth day of their round-the-clock sit-in, which was staged to demand the resignation of the interim government, and chased protesters away after scattering them by firing tear gas, Reuters reported.
Some members of the shadow cabinet who support action sought a confrontation on this issue because they hoped to stage a coordinated resignation from the frontbench.
A6 Ultimatum on Sinn Fein Ouster David Trimble, the first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, said he and his fellow ministers of the province's main Protestant party would stage a mass resignation unless Britain removed Sinn Fein from the assembly by early next week.
David Trimble, the first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, said today that he and his fellow ministers of the province's main Protestant party would stage a mass resignation that would cause the legislature to collapse unless Britain throws Sinn Fein out of the Assembly by early next week.
On 17 June 1953, workers in East Berlin had staged an uprising, demanding the resignation of the government of the German Democratic Republic.
If his on-field performances had been half as polished as the carefully stage-managed resignation from the captaincy that enabled him to flee to the sound of applause rather than hard questions, England might not have been so dismal.
