"But seriously-you didn't resign because your aunt-" Ginese continued to stare at her with an expression blank of all emotion.

She couldn't resign now, because this dis- aster was not the responsibility of her successor, assuming any successor existed; Orb had to face it herself.

In the Oval Office, Palmer orders Daniels to resign, because he cannot run the country with Daniels undermining his authority.

Gregory himself resigned in 1046 because the arrangement he had entered into with Benedict could have been considered simony.

The Washington Post speculated that Finklea had been under pressure to resign because of what it called, "bureaucratic feuding".

They refused to give such support, and Saavedra argued that Cisneros should resign because the Junta of Seville that had appointed him did not exist anymore.

He said he resigned from the museum because those who direct it have no interest, sympathy or qualifications for Jewish studies and hindered academic cooperation with Israeli scholars.

The chancellor of the Arecibo campus, Ana Gómez, resigned to her job because José de la Torre asked her to do so.

"If you're suggesting I should resign because of what the News of the World has done," Yates of the Yard declared, that was completely "unfair".

He was a Lord of the Admiralty from 1714 until he resigned in 1727 because his increasing deafness was preventing him from adequately fulfilling the duties.