Justice Souter was so disgusted by that ruling, and the partisanship it seemed to show, that he almost resigned.
He nearly failed to be reappointed in 1983 and almost resigned in 1986, when defeated on a key vote.
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Yet Mr Fino seems almost resigned to an awkward period of further power-sharing between the Socialists and Mr Berisha.
Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister, said he had almost resigned over the issue.
Joao Havelange, who led soccer's world governing body from 1974 to 1998 and served on the International Olympic Committee for almost half a century, resigned as FIFA's honorary president after a FIFA-commissioned report showed he had accepted bribes in the late 1990s.
Its chief executive resigned and the share price almost halved.
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After 20 years in America's Congress, and four years after putting Republicans in control of both houses almost single-handedly, Newt Gingrich resigned as speaker and said he would leave politics.
Penney resigned as Quakers boss earlier on Thursday after almost three years in charge of the administration-hit club.
On September 24th Renata Polverini, the governor of Lazio, the region around Rome, resigned because of a scandal which, by Italian standards, was almost routine.
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Terence O'Neill eventually resigned in April 1969 after a bruising general election in which he almost lost his own seat to Ian Paisley and in which he was opposed by several of his MPs, among them John Taylor, now Lord Kilclooney.
Almost as a footnote, the release also announced that COO John Havens had also resigned.
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