Word Finder - resignation

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The act of resigning.

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A written or oral declaration that one resigns.

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State of uncomplaining acceptance in the face of something undesirable but unavoidable.

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The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.

He looked at her long enough for her to see resignation in his gaze.

There was a look of resignation, not concern, on Cynthia's face as Dean shouldered his pack and Cynthia's camera equipment.

She spoke with total resignation, utter defeat as she looked up at me.

Finally, with a sigh of resignation, he began the fifteen-minute walk back to the awaiting problems of civilization.

A vote of the Italian Chamber on the 4th of February 1887, in connection with the disaster to Italian troops at Dogali, in Abyssinia, brought about the resignation of the Depretis-Robilant cabinet.

On the 23rd of December 1863 his resignation was cancelled, and he was assigned to the command of the military district of Etowah, with headquarters at Chattanooga.

On the resignation of this parliament he became a member of the council of state named in the "Instrument."

She saw the resignation to his own death in his silver eyes.

This resignation was possibly due to his dislike of Henry's foreign policy.

He refused to ratify his resignation; and when Clavering attempted to seize on the governor-generalship, he judiciously obtained an opinion from the judges of the supreme court in his favour.

The reply to this threat was the immediate resignation of their commissions by all the officers connected with the Tiro Nacional.

On the gth of May 1843 he was appointed secretary of state ad interim, after the resignation of Daniel Webster.

But his infirmities were increasing, and while making preparations for his resignation, he died on the 6th of July 1583 and was buried in Croydon parish church.

Rightly or wrongly, however, he held that Russell was indispensable to the cabinet, and that a resignation would precipitate war.

The appointment of a new peace commission in 1778 offended the admiral deeply, and he sent in a resignation of his command.

The resignation of the Gladstone-Granville cabinet further precluded the projected Italian occupation of Suakin, and the Italians, wisely refraining from an independent attempt to succour Kassala, then besieged by the Mahdists, bent their efforts to the increase of their zone of occupation around Massawa.

On the 19th of June, on the resignation of Lord Clifford, he was appointed lord treasurer and made Baron Osborne of Kiveton and Viscount Latimer in the peerage of England, while on the 27th of June 1674 he was created earl of Danby, when he surrendered his Scottish peerage of Osborne to his second son Peregrine Osborne.

After Peel's death in 1850 he became the recognized leader of the Peelites, although since his resignation his share in public business had been confined to a few speeches on foreign affairs.

In private, the mood was very different - a combination of worry and weary resignation.

The resignation was promptly accepted, and one of the directors was appointed to the vacancy.

Anna Mikhaylovna regarded the refined sadness that united her son to the wealthy Julie with emotion, and resignation to the Divine will.

In February 1785 he finally sailed from Calcutta, after a dignified ceremony of resignation, and amid enthusiastic farewells from all classes.

Celman, acting upon the advice of General Roca, who recognized the strength of public opinion in the outbreak, placed his resignation in the hands of congress on the 31st of.

Peel, worn out with a protracted struggle, placed his resignation in the dueens hands- Thus fell the great minister, who perhaps had conferred more benefits on his country than any of his predecessors.

While the strife was at its hottest, Hastings had sent an agent to England with a general authority to place his resignation in the hands of the Company under certain conditions.

The special struggle leading to his resignation was an attempt to abolish the court of chancery of Upper Canada, whose constitution was due to a measure introduced by Baldwin in 1849.

With rare resignation Valdemar devoted the remainder of his life to the great work of domestic reform.

In the beginning of May 1852, when the government of Louis Napoleon required an oath of allegiance from all its functionaries, Arago peremptorily refused, and sent in his resignation of his post as astronomer at the Bureau des Longitudes.

The incident, whether due to chance or guile, brought about the resignation of Crispi.

He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a gesture.

His face wore a calm look of piety and resignation to the will of God.

After breakfast, she closed her account at the bank and turned in her resignation.

Dean shook his head in resignation.

An attempt by Depretis to recompose the Cairoli ministry proved fruitless, and after eleven precious days had been lost, King Humbert was obliged, on the i9th of April 1881, to refuse Cairolis resignation.

A weak and easily-influenced old man, his resignation was the noblest act of his pontificate.

The beginning of negotiations had been somewhat facilitated by the resignation of Pitt (4th of February 1801) and the advent to office of Henry Addington.

In the spring of 1583 she retained enough of this saintly resignation to ask for nothing but liberty, without a share in the government of Scotland; but Lord Burghley not unreasonably preferred, if feasible, to reconcile the alliance of her son with the detention of his mother.

No lapse of reconciling time, no extent of comparative indulgence, could break her in to resignation, submission, or toleration of even partial restraint.

Political parties in congress were so evenly balanced and so subdivided into groups that a vote against the ministry was easy to obtain, and the resignation of the cabinet immediately followed in accordance with the so-called parliamentary system in vogue in Chile.

The battle, carried on on both sides with tenacious endurance, ended in 191 r with the victory of Aehrenthal and the resignation of HOtzendorf.

The Emperor Francis Joseph esteemed him, stood by him in the good and evil hours of his administration of foreign affairs, and repeatedly refused to accept his tendered resignation.

Paul, however, refused to accept his resignation and would have sent him abroad for the benefit of his health, had not a sudden stroke of paralysis prevented Bezborodko from taking advantage of his master's kindness.

This resignation was not an unfortunate event for the country, as the federal Cortes not only made Castelar chief of the executive, though his partisans were in a minority in the Parliament, but they gave him much liberty to act, as they decided to suspend the sittings of the house until 2nd January 1874.

Fear didn't dictate her mood—it was a sense of resignation and total helplessness, as if she'd been sucked into a black hole of bureaucracy where she'd remain forever.

Even the mild grief at the loss of our most regular comedy figure won't assuage the extreme pleasure at his resignation.

In a rather nonchalant response, Rumsfeld has cited the thousands of retired military men who haven't yet demanded his resignation.

There was prejudice in the workplace culminating in her resignation a year ago.

Tambara confirms resignation from Renamo A prominent Renamo parliamentary deputy Almeida Tambara, has confirmed reports that he has resigned from the party.

This plan only works so long as we are nowhere near the pressure on resignation and no Tory gets yellow goo on their hands.

Nowadays, any sexual impropriety or any association with scandal usually leads to the resignation of the minister involved.