For this reason, I am resigning from the office of Governor.

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He was forced to become the first U.S. president ever to quit office, resigning to avoid inevitable impeachment.

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An estimated 150, 000 people packed into St Peter's Square on Wednesday to hear Benedict, resigning after seven years in office.

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Even so, on the eve of Labour's annual conference in September, knives were still being sharpened - there was excited talk of up to five cabinet ministers resigning to force Brown from office.

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Shultz served first as labor secretary then as director of the Office of Management and Budget, ultimately resigning in protest as Nixon did what almost all presidents then and now continue to do.

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The PAC will be run on a day-to-day basis by a veteran Clinton-Gore operative, Nick Baldick, who is resigning his post in the White House political affairs office to become the PAC's executive director.

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The move is a formality and either it or a similar title - the office of the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds - is conferred on resigning MPs, whether or not they accept it.

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Mr Mabona, a provincial safety and security minister, was pressed into resigning in 1997 after an independent commission found that he had mismanaged public funds and called him unfit for public office.

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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.

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