Kenny defeated Richard Bruton, Phil Hogan and Gay Mitchell in the leadership election, which was triggered by the resignation of Michael Noonan following the 2002 general election.

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.

The by-elections were triggered by the resignation of five members of the Legislative Council, one each from the territory's five constituencies, three of them from the League of Social Democrats, and the other two from the Civic Party.

" Sir Alan Walters, whose opposition to the ERM as Mrs Thatcher's economic adviser triggered Nigel Lawson's resignation as chancellor, wrote on the buoyant state of the British economy in 2001 that " all the difficult and correct decisions that produced this happy state of affairs were taken and implemented by Norman Lamont, who thus showed himself, in his Mark 2 post ERM version, to be not only the most effective but also the bravest Chancellor since the War.

He is the only person in Australian federal parliamentary history to win back his seat at a by-election triggered by his own resignation.

On 12 January 2006 Hughes announced his candidature in the Leadership Election triggered by the resignation of Charles Kennedy.

The firing of Prentiss apparently triggered Walsh's resignation, which was followed by terminations for Neal Ozano and Jacob Boon who allegedly acted insubordinately.

On 20 May 2009, he officially announced his intention to stand in the Speakership election, which had been triggered by Martin's resignation, and launched his manifesto for the job.

Wicker's resignation from the House also triggered a May 13, 2008 special election to fill the vacancy in the House, which was won by Democrat Travis Childers.

This triggered the chain of events which exposed the Watergate scandal and eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

The May 2010 by-election was triggered by the resignation of 5 pan-democrats from the Legislative Council who put themselves up for re-election to the Legislative Council.

He was elected lieutenant governor in a November 1996 special election triggered by the resignation of Governor Jim Guy Tucker and the promotion of then-Lieutenant Governor Mike Huckabee.

When the following season started in a similar vein, a heavy defeat at Wigan triggered the resignation of Allan Agar.

His election candidacy began in 2004 when he was selected as the Fine Gael candidate in the Meath by-election, which was triggered by the resignation from Dáil Éireann of Fine Gael's former leader, John Bruton.

This was triggered by the resignation of John Watkins who was the MP for Ryde since 1995.

In 1836, actions by new Lieutenant Governor Francis Bond Head triggered the resignation of the members of the Executive Council for the province.

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.

* 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.

The world-wide recession, marked first by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, caused deepening economic hardships in Spain and the resignation of Primo de Rivera's government in 1930.

After Collingridge's resignation, Urquhart — in imitation of Shakespeare's Richard of Gloucester — at first feigns unwillingness to stand before announcing his candidacy.

The Reformasi era following Suharto's resignation, has led to a strengthening of democratic processes, including a regional autonomy program, the secession of East Timor, and the first direct presidential election in 2004.

Bismarck, forced for the first time into a situation he could not use to his advantage, wrote a blistering letter of resignation, decrying Wilhelm's interference in foreign and domestic policy, which was published only after Bismarck's death.

The scandal ultimately led to the resignation of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and a transfer of power from his Conservative government to a Liberal government led by Alexander Mackenzie.

The first time was in 1969 after Charles de Gaulle's resignation and a second time in 1974 after Georges Pompidou's death.

The first Deputy-Registrar was Paul Ruegger ; after his resignation on 17 August 1928, Julio Lopez Olivan was selected to succeed him.

His first was in 1963, when he contested the by-election in Stratford-upon-Avon caused by the resignation of John Profumo.

T ' Pol of Vulcan is shown as the first non-human Starfleet officer, having received a commission as a Commander following the Xindi mission and her resignation from the Vulcan High Command.

The Vice President is the first person in the presidential line of succession, and would ascend to the Presidency upon the death, resignation, or removal of the President.

Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.

The first such instance occurred in 1973 following the resignation of Spiro Agnew as Richard Nixon's Vice President.

* February 1 – Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC ( Victorian Economic Development Co-operation ) Crisis.

* June 18 – In the first Greek legislative election of the year, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, led by Prime Minister of Greece Andreas Papandreou, loses control of the Hellenic Parliament, leading to Papandreou's resignation the next day.

Notwithstanding his past temporary friendly relations with Nixon, who defeated U. S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for reelection, Smith became the first national television commentator to call for Nixon's resignation over Watergate.

The Prime Minister dissolves the Council of Ministers at the first session of the newly elected Sejm, as well as in the case of: failure to pass by the Sejm of the vote of confidence for the Council of Ministers, passing of the vote of no confidence, or resignation for any other reasons.

Hamilton, who had been a leading advocate of national constitutional reform throughout the 1780s and represented New York at the Constitutional Convention, in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury, a post he held until his resignation in 1795.

On October 21, 2004, Val Ackerman, the first WNBA president, announced her resignation, effective February 1, 2005, citing the desire to spend more time with her family.

Henry Murdac resigned the abbacy in 1147 to become the Archbishop of York and was replaced first by Maurice, Abbot of Rievaulx then, on the resignation of Maurice, by Thorald.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was the party's first leader and the undisputed centre of the party from its start until his resignation in 2011.

( As a side effect, this provision means that MPs seeking to resign from parliament can get around the age-old prohibition on resignation by obtaining a low-salary sinecure in the pay of the Crown ; while several offices have been used for this purpose, two are currently in use.

On one occasion, the use of the word niggardly led to the resignation of a U. S. public official because it sounded similar to the word nigger, despite the two words being unrelated etymologically ).

A specific use of the phrase is in the context of the vacancy of the Holy See between the death or resignation of a Pope and the election of his successor.

The decision caused enormous controversy, especially after Macleod chose to use the paper to explain his recent resignation.

Similarly, after his resignation, he may not use the pallium ; should he be transferred to another archdiocese, he must again petition the Holy Father for a new pallium.

*: Following de Valera's resignation, Arthur Griffith was elected to his office, but though he preferred to use the earlier title of President of Dáil Éireann he never actually reverted the constitutional amendments of August 1921.

Religious activists, upset over the pamphlet's frank discussion of sexual practices and advocacy of condom use, called for Koop's resignation.

Several of his colleagues both in and out of the paper were highly critical of the forced resignation, taking the view that the use of previously-published boilerplate material was common newsroom practice, and Olesker's alleged plagiarism was in line with that practice.

# Though the word “ fatalism ” is commonly used to refer to an attitude of resignation in the face of some future event or events which are thought to be inevitable, philosophers usually use the word to refer to the view that we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do.

During the argument that occurred when deciding which to use, opponents of Franklin's invention accused supporters of being American allies rather than being British, and the debate eventually led to the resignation of the Society's President, Sir John Pringle.

In this, Wilmshurst stated that the reason for her resignation was that she did not agree with the official opinion that the use of force in Iraq was legal.

Members who wish to resign from the House shall submit their resignations to the Chairman, who may use his discretion to reject the resignation if he is satisfied that such resignation is not voluntary or genuine.

The club chairman Charles Jillings subsequently tendered his resignation while the club doctor Wendy Chapman was suspended by the GMC for cutting Williams's lip to hide his use of the blood capsule.

In July 2006, Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland ( Central Council of Jews in Germany ), demanded her resignation after Wieczorek-Zeul had called Israeli use of cluster bombs " totally unacceptable under international law ".

Recent efforts that have received such recognition include a series of stories that resulted in the resignation and criminal conviction of the state House of Delegates education chairman, a series on the environmental effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, a series on the state's " failed " attempts to deal with its residents suffering from mental illness, and a series on the deaths nationwide from the widespread use of methadone.

He proved so efficient that he was able to use the threat of resignation to gain the addition of £ 30 to his £ 75 a year salary to keep and maintain a horse to assist him in his duties.

According to veteran Press Association reporter Chris Moncrieff, Wigg was unpopular with Labour MPs but managed to use procedure to place the Profumo affair on the record in Parliament and led the pursuit of Profumo which ultimately resulted in the latter's resignation.

Given the status of this resignation as voluntary ( as Tung claims ), and there are allegations that the citing of health reasons may not be an actual truth, as there is technically nothing prohibiting the use of excuses in such a manner.

But he found himself at odds with professional bureaucrats, and various investigations into his personal finances and use of government property led to his resignation in 1996.

His resignation was prompted by a controversy surrounding use of company property and improper processing of personal expenses uncovered by the Ontario Auditor General.

Adar ( who assumed Roslin would fail at breaking the strike through peaceful means ) demands Roslin's resignation, citing the fact that he wants to use force against the teachers in order to intimidate the other unions on Caprica from striking.

In return for his resignation, Groom was elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives and presided from January 1926 to 1929, when he helped oversee the move of federal Parliament from Melbourne to the newly constructed capital Canberra but his refusal to use his casting vote as speaker on a bill that would remove the Commonwealth from most of its involvement in conciliation and arbitration led to the collapse of the Bruce government and the 1929 election.