Sentence examples for to standing down from inspiring English sources

Emmanuel Ayala, a 25-year-old priest from Mexico, was reluctant to comment on whether the Pontiff was right to standing down.

One unnamed Tory MP and former cabinet member told the BBC he "must be close to standing down" as Speaker, while another said his remarks had gone "way beyond what is acceptable".

After putting in a decade as SNP leader, Mr Salmond decided to quit, standing down as an MSP and returning to Westminster.

Just when China appears to be standing down, Taiwan's leaders are stepping up.

Fewer than a quarter of MPs are female, with many said to be standing down in next year's general election.

Morsi himself refused to consider standing down during his two-and-a-half-hour speech on Wednesday.

The Libyan leader, in power for 42 years, has offered a truce but refused to discuss standing down, a condition Nato and the rebels say is essential.

It compounds Labour's woes in a dismal night for Labour, which lost all but one of its Scottish MPs and will undoubtedly lead to Ed Miliband standing down.

It is understood that, prior to him standing down as director of communications in January this year, party officials had asked Coulson directly whether he had received payments from News International during the period he had worked for them.

Matthew Hayden has labelled Brad Haddin's axing from the Australian cricket team as "outrageous", given the wicketkeeper's trying personal circumstances that led to him standing down for the second Ashes Test.

"I am extremely sad to be standing down as chairman.