President Bush's first attorney general, John Ashcroft, was denounced by critics as playing fast and loose with civil liberties, and now Alberto Gonzales is under intense pressure to quit from Democrats and some Republicans because of his involvement in the mishandled firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
He quit last week from the board of England Rugby Ltd, which runs the professional game in England.
And last month, the city's chief of police was obliged to quit after threats from organized crime to kill a policeman every day that he remained on the job.
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He won a vote of confidence after an extraordinary hearing of the FIA's general assembly in early June which allowed him to remain in office, despite calls for him to quit his role from some parties in Formula One.
"After being in piracy for eight years, I have decided to renounce and quit, and from today on I will not be involved in this gang activity, " AFP news agency quotes Afweyneh as saying at a news conference in Adado on Wednesday.
In other words, the players quit while boarding the plane from New York.
In the U.S., as many as 4, 000 people have quit or been laid off from online ventures in the past month.
The Beijing News also welcomes calls by CPPCC and NPC deputies to quit smoking and remove ashtrays from meeting halls or at least smoke outside.
Mr Nasheed, who was succeeded by his deputy, Mohamed Waheed, has said he was forced to quit by threats of violence from rebellious police and soldiers.
At least 28, 000 have agreed to accept lump sum payments from the company to quit.
The five representatives from Walberswick Parish Council quit after being "bombarded" with Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.
That just might be the best hope for the next wave of Brooklyn bands hoping to make enough from music sales to quit their day jobs.
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The deal is the largest-ever foreign direct investment in South Africa and marks Barclays' return to a market it was forced to quit in the 1980s following pressure from anti-apartheid campaigners.
With encouragement from her husband, Jensen quit her job at Glamour and started The Little Yoga Mat.
The South Florida native tried out investment banking with Merrill Lynch after getting a business degree from Emory University, then quit to found a sneaker store at the Hard Rock Casino in Seminole, Florida.
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Since 1624 MPs have been banned from resigning their seat, so any member wanting to quit has to go through the process of applying for a paid office of the Crown, which automatically disqualifies them from holding a seat in the Commons.
The departure of such strivers has removed the leaven from the housing estates that they quit.
He takes over from Portuguese Mariano Barreto, who quit the post to take up a job with Portuguese first division side Maritimo.
The judge has adjourned Ms Hussein's trial until September to reassess whether she should indeed benefit from diplomatic immunity, despite having quit her job.
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He had remained in his position even after Milosevic left office with the backing of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica despite calls from many reformers for him to quit immediately.
Attlee was unable to subdue Nye Bevan - a heroic figure for the party's left - who quit the shadow cabinet and was almost expelled from the party a year later.
We saw it this week over Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's new policy banning telecommuting in the company she's been hired to revive, meaning people have to work from the office every day or quit.
But Agarwal, who built his fortune from scratch, is not one to quit.
Most of the veteran public diplomacy professionals from the U.S.IA years quit or retired long ago.
Spitzer becomes the first New York governor to resign from office during his term since Nelson Rockefeller quit in 1973.
Calder succeeds chairman Keith Cousins, who took over in 2006 from a supporters' trust and has now quit the club, reportedly writing off his loans.
Bridgestone becomes the latest Japanese corporation to quit high-end motorsport, with Honda's withdrawal from F1 at the end of last season setting the trend.
Investment bankers and their counterparts in private equity were competing to grab the same deals, prompting then-chairman Paulson to deliver what the Financial Times called a "Spank from Hank, " shuffling some execs as others quit.
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