(following resignation)
1resignation — res‧ig‧na‧tion [ˌrezɪgˈneɪʆn] noun [countable, uncountable] JOBS when someone officially states that they want to leave their job, position etc: • The board accepted their resignations, along with that of the vice chairman. • The finance… …
2Resignation — A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one s office or position. It can also refer to the act of admitting defeat in a game like chess, indicated by the resigning player declaring I resign , turning his king on its side,… …
3resignation — noun 1 giving up your job; letter of resignation ADJECTIVE ▪ immediate ▪ shock (BrE), sudden, surprise, unexpected (esp. BrE) ▪ forced ▪ …
4Resignation speech — A resignation speech is a speech made by a public figure upon resigning from office. Resigning speeches can have considerable political effect for a number of reasons: * The resignation of a senior politician is normally an important, sometimes… …
5Resignation from the British House of Commons — Members of Parliament sitting in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom are technically forbidden to resign. In order to circumvent this prohibition, a legal fiction is used. Appointment to an office of profit under the Crown disqualifies an… …
61945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours — The 1945 Prime Minister s Resignation Honours were announced on 14 August 1945 to mark the resignation of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, following the success of the Labour Party in the 1945 General Election. [ The Times , 14 August 1945, p4.] …
7Prime Minister's Resignation Honours — The Prime Minister s Resignation Honours in the United Kingdom are honours granted at the behest of an outgoing Prime Minister following his or her resignation. In such a list, a Prime Minister may ask the monarch to bestow peerages, or other… …
8R.E. Lee: Letter of Resignation — ▪ Primary Source It is all my fault. It is I who have lost the fight : this was the apology that Gen. Robert E. Lee offered the Confederate troops straggling back to their lines after the debacle of Pickett s Charge, and in many ways Lee… …
9Richard M. Nixon: Resignation from the Presidency — ▪ Primary Source Following the release of the tape transcripts on August 5, 1974, many members of Congress urged the President to resign to save the country the ordeal of a protracted debate on impeachment in the House and a trial in the… …
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