NEWLY settled residents of New Jersey learn to accept our state's full-service fueling law with the same type of oh-well resignation that new Bostonians reserve for that city's no-selling-liquor-on-Sundays regulation: At first it seems a senseless antiquity.
Oh, he's staying!' "Really, nobody knows what the next step is," she said, adding that it may well be resignation on Monday.
The recent deaths of my two main intellectual, political and personal mentors, the writers and activists Eqbal Ahmad and Ibrahim Abu-Lughas, has brought sadness and loss, as well as resignation and a certain stubborn will to go on.
It was West Indies' innings defeat in the first of their two-Test series in Sri Lanka, all over in a little less than four days and enough to break your heart if you viewed that imperious side of the 1980s with admiration as well as resignation.
"He made a very eloquent and well-spoken resignation speech," said Dave DeCicco, the vice president for communications of the Victory Fund.
It begins with Norma singing Tom Waits Strange Weatherr, her voice warm and gently rough, as it dashes through lyrics playfully ("I believe that brandy's mine") and with well-worn resignation ("all over the world strangers / Talk only about the weather").
More than 300,000 people took to the streets of Brussels in October 1996 in one of the largest demonstrations in the country's history, demanding justice as well as resignations over the case.
The conflict stems from changes made to the program after students had already arrived on campus, as well as resignations by prominent faculty members.
Write a well-written resignation letter.
But the chamber's attacks against climate policy have also led to a wave of well-publicized resignations from the trade group — by prominent companies like Apple and Nike, and the utilities Pacific Gas and Electric, Exelon and PNM Resources.
In response, students demanded a social justice center as well as the resignation of the dean.
