He resigned his commission in 1834 to return to Kentucky to care for his dying wife, who succumbed two years later to tuberculosis.

Immediately after this, Algardi produced an interactive sculptural group representing the beheading of Saint Paul with two figures: a kneeling, resigned saint and the executioner poised to strike the sword-blow, for the church of San Paolo, Bologna.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

Seven members of the university board ( of about a hundred ) also resigned in support of Graham, including Graham himself and two of his staff members.

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

As a consequence, the two vice presidents, belonging to other parties, resigned as well to be able to vote.

After two years, he resigned from his ambassadorship because of disagreements with U. S. government policy.

Cossiga resigned two months before the end of his term, on 1992.

In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.

Three provisional presidents held office during this interval ; one resigned and the army deposed the other two, Franck Sylvain and Fignolé.

He resigned the captaincy after a loss and a draw in the first two Tests of the 1981 Ashes series.

Prime Minister Hata resigned less than two months later.

In October 45 BC, Caesar resigned his position as sole consul, and facilitated the election of two successors for the remainder of the year which theoretically restored the ordinary consulship, since the constitution did not recognize a single consul without a colleague.

Polgár was able to attack with her rooks on Kasparov's king which was still in the centre of the board and when he was two pawns down, Kasparov resigned.

Dalglish resigned as manager of Liverpool ( on health grounds ) on 22 February 1991, two days after a 4 – 4 draw with rivals Everton in an FA Cup fifth round tie at Goodison Park, in which Liverpool surrendered the lead four times.

The cabinet of Algirdas Brazauskas resigned on May 31, 2006 as President Valdas Adamkus expressed no confidence in two of the Ministers, formerly party colleagues of Brazauskas, over ethical principles.

In 1852 he accepted a medical professorship of comparative anatomy at Charlestown, Massachusetts, but he resigned in two years.

She resigned the presidency two months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the United Nations.

Carroll was not seriously injured and Alosi resigned nearly two months later.

Although Bismarck hoped to become a diplomat, he started his practical training as a lawyer in Aachen and Potsdam, and soon resigned, having first placed his career in jeopardy by taking unauthorized leave to pursue two English girls, first Laura Russell, niece of the Duke of Cleveland, and then Isabella Loraine-Smith, daughter of a wealthy clergyman.

Although the two men came to an agreement to share power, John VI resigned from his imperial post and became a monk.

Subsequently, his wife, Kathryn Greiner, resigned in protest from the two positions she held at the University as chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation and a member of the executive council of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific.

After two mediocre years, Spurrier resigned after the 2003 season with three years left on his contract.

In 2000, two computer hard drives containing classified data were announced to have gone missing from a secure area within the laboratory, but were later found behind a photocopier ; in 2003, the laboratory's director John Browne, and deputy director, resigned following accusations that they had improperly dismissed two whistleblowers who had alleged widespread theft at the lab.

Derby's health had been declining for some time and he finally resigned as Prime Minister in late February 1868 ; he would live for twenty months.

The Xinhai Revolution over, Mao resigned from the army in 1912, after six months of being a soldier.

Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

After several months of being sidelined at Apple, Jobs resigned on Friday, September 13, 1985.

The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).

After six months he resigned his position with the city to join the San Francisco Chronicle where he became a sports cartoonist.

At the end of the six months Pretorius, after a stormy meeting of the volksraad, apparently in disgust at the whole situation, resigned the presidency of the Transvaal.

However, on 5 September 2008, after only 10 months in office, Mally resigned as prime minister of Togo.

Hired by Tina Brown in 1992, Art Spiegelman worked for The New Yorker for ten years but resigned a few months after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The second occurred 10 months later when Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal and Ford assumed the Presidency.

Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.

However, he resigned only 2 months later in response to massive anti-government demonstrations.

After the success of political forces close to Putin in the December 1999 parliamentary elections, Yeltsin evidentially felt confident enough in Putin that he resigned from the presidency on December 31, six months before his term was due to expire.

After calling for the French to introduce a Vietnamese legislature, he resigned after three months in office when this was rejected.

This process was triggered for the first time on May 31, 2010, when Horst Köhler resigned the office, as all his predecessors ( with the exception of Heinrich Lübke, who announced in 1968 that he would resign the following year, his resignation taking effect after the regular election of his successor and just three months before the scheduled end of his term of office ) had served their terms in full.

Hindery predicted that the company would attain a positive cash flow by early 2002, but he resigned in October 2000 after seven months with the company, after the sale of the GlobalCenter division to Exodus Communications.

In 1858, within a few months of beginning his studies with Balakirev, Mussorgsky resigned his commission to devote himself entirely to music.

The PAP has held an overwhelming majority of seats in the Parliament of Singapore since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis ( Socialist Front ), a left-wing group that split from PAP in 1961, resigned from Parliament after winning 13 seats following the 1963 state elections, which took place months after a number of their leaders had been arrested in Operation Coldstore based on charges of being communists.

Since the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, Coppola feels that audiences interpreted the film to be a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fall-out.

Alfonsín faced significant challenges, including a military uprising, and resigned in 1989, six months before the end of his term, but the country was not in clear danger of becoming subject to a dictatorship again.

In 1932, Diệm became the interior minister but resigned within a few months after realising that he would not be given any real power.