Would it have been most productive to write the letter as an act of closure and therapy and then to resign quietly and simply throw the letter away?
Mr Mandelson tried to hold on to his job - for a day - but was then forced to resign.
If law enforcement officers feel so strongly about a law that they cannot enforce it, then they should resign in protest.
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Until then, we should resign ourselves to accept the results of jury decisions the same way we swallow refereeing in basketball.
In 1294, Pope Celestine V, only five months after his election, issued a solemn decree declaring it permissible for a pope to resign and then did so.
"There's been a lot of experiences from that time until now, " Corbin said before the game about seeing a Hall of Fame coach resign and then All-Star point guard Deron Williams traded two weeks later.
Then Mechai was forced to resign and a new board comprised mostly of former government bureaucrats took over.
In 2010, the league's then chairman was forced to resign after being accused of tax evasion and money laundering.
Mr Kishimoto will shortly resign as mayor, then put himself up for re-election.
The only other option was to claim nothing at all but then I would have had to resign because I could not afford to live half my life in London or Cumbria without an allowance for one of them.
Paterson became governor last spring after then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign amid a sex scandal.
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Should a tax increase be necessary before then, Mr Okada says, the prime minister should resign and call a fresh election.
Then there appear to be fears that Dimon will simply resign if stripped of his chairmanship and that there is no succession plan in place.
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Mr Bainimarama then called for the prime minister and his cabinet to resign over a corruption scandal and later openly threatened to remove the government by military force.
He then thanked his supporters and shocked them by announcing that he would resign from the Knesset, as leader of the Labour Party and leave public life.
Samina Ahmed, of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, thinks the army may well force him to resign, leading to the establishment of an interim government and then elections.
Some Republicans are privately making the case that if Rumsfeld is to keep his job, then one of his senior deputies -- possibly Cambone -- should resign for encouraging the use of military police officers to help military intelligence units at the Abu Ghraib prison.
"If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign, " the pope said.
Following the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands in 1982, Richard Luce, then minister for state for foreign affairs, went to see Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington to resign from his post.
But Mr Abbas contended then and later that Mr Olmert was a lame duck, facing corruption charges and poised to resign.
My scenario goes like this: Dominique Strauss-Kahn is forced to resign as head of the IMF because of those problems over his former mistress and then Gordon Brown takes over as the self-styled saviour of the financial world.
Some misty-eyed commentators hark back to the honest days of the 1970s, when the revelation that his wife held a few thousand dollars in a then-illegal overseas bank account was enough to make the prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, resign.
He served as a parliamentary private secretary to Douglas Hurd and then as a junior minister in the Departments of Health and the Environment - until he was obliged to resign in 1994 when he was revealed to have fathered a child by a Tory councillor and narrowly avoided deselection by his local party.
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