Word Finder - resign

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To give up; to relinquish ownership of.

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To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.

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To quit (a job or position).

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He resigned the crown to follow his heart.

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To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.

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After fighting for so long, she finally resigned to her death.

Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?

I am in no hurry to resign my office and be planted, you may be sure.

In consequence of this James was forced to resign his posts.

It was the sign it was time to resign, for her power was nearly gone.

In his last sickness Celestine wished to resign his office, but the cardinals protested.

Only the deities can force another deity to resign.

If you have decided to resign from your job, you'll need to write and submit a formal letter of resignation to your employer.

Having always had an attraction for a life of prayer and retirement, in 1547 he tried to resign the generalship, and again in 1550, but the fathers unanimously opposed the project.

Crispi was compelled to resign office, although the judicial authorities upheld the invalidity of his early marriage, contracted at Malta in 1853, and ratified his subsequent union with Signora Barbagallo.

He went so far as to threaten to resign his commission if the president disregarded his protest.

Innocent was extolled by contemporaries as a lover of peace and honesty, but he was without energy, guilty of nepotism, and showed no favour to the proposal that he as well as the antipope should resign.

He denied this to be the case and refused to resign, pleading religious liberty and the large interests of Agapemonites in the concern.

Some union members criticized Mitchell for his lack of radicalism and in 1908 he resign as president of UMWA.

On 9th August, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first President of the United States to resign from office.

What type of a company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they give you what you 're worth?

Howard wanted to resign or sensed that he had no choice because ambitious rivals were waiting to pounce in the aftermath of another defeat.

Sure, some cats are willing to buddy up and share food bowls, litter boxes, and scratching posts, but some persnickety felines simply can't resign themselves to sharing the things they consider to be their own.

You don't have this luxury when buying books online used, but that doesn't mean you have to resign yourself to receiving sub-par books.

He has yet to resign his contract for Two and a Half Men, leaving many questioning the fate of the show's future.

Depending on the region where you live, there could be hundreds within a 50-mile radius, or you may have to resign yourself to traveling to pick up the perfect camper for you.

She was forced to resign due to her "bad" conduct after hours.

You could resign yourself to wait patiently for him to make a move or you could make it easier for him to ask you out.

At times it seems parents should just resign themselves to a life of sleep deprivation.

Housewives looking to cut costs in the clothing area don't need to resign themselves to looking frumpy.

If you don't have the option to move, make sure you take advantage of any rental specials available to those who resign their current lease.

When you write a letter letting your present employer know you have decided to resign, some standard items should be included.

Often people resign from one job to pursue what they think is a better opportunity only to find that it isn't.

As a courtesy, do tell your immediate supervisor first and then contact the personnel department to let them know you plan to resign.

When you resign from a job, it's considered proper business etiquette to submit a formal letter of resignation.

Please accept this letter as formal notification of my intention to resign from my position as (insert job tile) with (name of company).

Who says women get to have all the fun and men should just resign themselves to boring boxers or briefs when it comes to underwear?

Unfortunately, lace cannot be adjusted, so if you find a slip you love and the bodice is bigger than your most padded bra, you may have to resign yourself to wearing a beautiful piece of lingerie that is just a touch too big.

The Foo Fighters would eventually leave Capitol Records for RCA when their friend and Capitol Records president was forced to resign.

Ostensibly about what happens when a British secret agent tries to resign his position, the series explored issues of identity, privacy, community, responsibility and sanity.

In 2006, an unknown blogger named Bill Kerr uncovered the identity of the mystery page that got Florida Republican Mark Foley into so much trouble, and forced him to resign.

Elizabeth then suggested that he should resign; this he declined to do, and after making an apology to the queen he was reinstated towards the end of 1582.

Tradition also asserts, according to the 12th century chronicler, Geoffrey of Monmouth, that it was in Tong Castle that Vortigern met Rowena, Hengest's daughter, and became so enamoured of her as to resign his kingdom to her father In the time of Richard II.

After the reconciliation of Louis with his mother, Marie de' Medici, through his agency, he was appointed a councillor of state, but had to resign this office, owing to his Austrian policy, which was opposed by Richelieu.

In 1845 he was appointed professor of mineralogy also, and held both chairs till 1878, when ill-health obliged him to resign.

After the fall of Palermo, Crispi was appointed minister of the interior and of finance in the Sicilian provisional government, but was shortly afterwards obliged to resign on account of the struggle between Garibaldi and the emissaries of Cavour with regard to the question of immediate annexation.

He was selected by the Records Commission to re-edit Rymer's Foedera, a task which after ten years' labour (1808-1818) he had to resign.

Contact with the natives during the famine caused Lavigerie to entertain exaggerated hopes for their general conversion, and his enthusiasm was such that he offered to resign his archbishopric in order to devote himself entirely to the missions.

The grand-duke accepted his threat as a request to resign, passed censure, and extended to him permission to withdraw from his chair at Jena; nor would he alter his decision, even though Fichte himself endeavoured to explain away the unfortunate letter.

This scheme, however, was frustrated by the firmness of Innocent and St Bernard, and Lothair had to resign himself to the zealous conservation of the privileges granted to the Empire by the terms of the concordat.

The Capitulation of Wittenberg (1547) is the name given to the treaty by which John Frederick the Magnanimous was compelled to resign the electoral dignity and most of his territory to the Albertine branch of the Saxon family.

His advanced age induced him to resign the control of affairs to his adopted nephew, Cardinal Paluzzi, who embroiled the papacy in disputes with the resident ambassadors, and incurred the enmity of Louis XIV., thus provoking the long controversy over the regalia (see Innocent Xi.).

Blake, who offered to resign, complained of the conduct of many of them, and some were punished.

He was charged with heterodoxy, and Alfred 0111vant (1798-1882), bishop of Llandaff, required him to resign his chaplaincy, but he remained at the college in spite of these difficulties.

About midday he took to Barras a letter, penned by Roederer, requesting him to resign his post as Director.

On the 9th of July 1815 he became foreign minister and president of the council under Louis XVIII., but diplomatic and other difficulties led him to resign his appointment on the 23rd of September 1815, Louis,, however, naming him high chamberlain and according him an annuity of 100,000 francs.