This presents problems, not so much because it's a step down to change baby's nappies, but because it's a step down to earn less than baby's mum.
The board of the company has said it will step down but wants to choose its own successors before going.
As the US calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, it has also expressed concern about militant groups fighting in Syria.
The opposition was already calling for the government to resign, and some commentators in the two coalition parties had said it should step down if the court ruled against major items.
It's actually a slight step down in terms of pixel density, but the extra space is more than worth it, as now this can make for a passable video player.
In that event, Mr Kohl has made it clear he would step down.
But right-to-life groups and religious leaders see it as the first step down a slippery slope to full human cloning.
Mr Jones, 62, said he always planned to step down in 2011 and it had been an "absolute privilege" to work for his constituency.
"After five full years playing at the highest level with all the training and representing Ireland it is time to step down, " said the 30-year-old.
You can have a big vision for what you might do, but you need to break it down into a step you can actually test in the market.
On Friday afternoon, as word began to leak out that Mr. Petraeus might be leaving his post, a shocked Ms. Feinstein, who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, called Mr. Petraeus to ask what was going on, and questioned whether it was necessary to step down.
Even the world's most motivated person knows when it's time to step down.
Yet it was still a welcome step back down to Earth.
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"I have accomplished what I set out to do and it is time for me to step down, " Mr Zoellick said.
Starting with the informal summit this week, it is time for the next step down the long and winding road to joint and several liability of eurozone debt.
In ten years' time, it may be that it will be seen as a sad step down the road to South Africa's disintegration.
Despite the situation surrounding Mr Jones, the members of the authority are also under political pressure, with several Welsh Conservative MPs announcing they believed it was time for them too to step down.
On the final flight, however, they got tangled up and he flew off her, bouncing down brutally step after step, while it was everything she could do to catch the bannister and not follow him.
It is unclear why Breyer has chosen to step down from so many high-profile boards.
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In the absence of any evidence against him, it is unlikely he will be forced to step down.
For Wednesday, the defeat ended a run of six straight wins, and represented the first game since it was announced Milan Mandaric had agreed to step down as chairman of Leicester City and take over at the cash-strapped Hillsborough club.
For what it's worth, the gossip in bank boardrooms is that Mr Varley is so miffed at the apparent implosion of his assiduous efforts to agree a deal with ministers (which went by the moniker of Project Merlin) that it contributed to his decision last week to step down as chief executive a few weeks earlier than originally announced.
Murphy-O'Connor said that it was O'Brien's decision to step down and that he had not been forced or asked to do so.
It did not state explicitly that the president should step down.
The reality is that when you start down this path, it is the first step towards accepting that the business is not all about you anymore.
Not only is the new design unfriendly to home entertainment centers (where most PS3s reside, we'd argue), but it feels cheap and unstable -- a distinct step down from the previous two models' front-loading tray design.
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If he is leaving earlier than he wanted (he will step down in October, and as chairman in May) it is at most a few months early.
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