Khrushchev was able to consolidate his powers within the party machine after Malenkov's resignation, but Malenkov remained the de facto leading figure of the Party.

This small group held total control over all political and economic life in the country and Malenkov's membership thus made him one of the top five most powerful men in the Soviet Union during World War II.

Malenkov's actions led to severe food deficits, poor housing, and shortages of basic goods due to mismanagement and drastic misbalance across the Soviet national economy, something his successor Nikita Khrushchev would escalate.

With Beria, Malenkov's ally, out of the way, Khrushchev was in a position to outmanoeuver Malenkov for power.

Malenkov also became First Secretary of the Party ( as the position of General Secretary was now known ) but had to relinquish that position and leave the party Secretariat on March 14, 1953 in the name of collective leadership due to the dissatisfaction of others in the leadership with Malenkov's assumption of both leadership roles.

Zhukov had his first heart attack not long after, and Malenkov's concerns of him had largely faded.

Beria was second most powerful, and given Malenkov's personal weakness, was poised to become the power behind the throne and ultimately leader himself.

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.

The anti-Khrushchev minority in the Presidium was augmented by those opposed to Khrushchev's proposals to decentralize authority over industry, which struck at the heart of Malenkov's power base.

Together with Malenkov's and Khrushchev's ascension of power, another figure, Lavrentiy Beria was also contending for power.

During 1941 – 1943 Malenkov's primary responsibility in the GKO was supervising military aircraft production as well as supervising the development of nuclear weapons.

Malenkov's accusations against Zhukov were mostly based upon allegations of counter-revolutionary behavior and selfish " Bonapartism.

Malenkov's ambitions and crafty politics bore fruit upon Stalin's death on 5 March 1953.

Malenkov's treason attempt failed.

Orthodox Church publications at the time of Malenkov's death said he had been a reader ( the lowest level of Russian Orthodox clergy ) and a choir singer in his final years.

Ealdred was made bishop of Worcester in 1046, a position he held until his resignation in 1062.

He made the following remarks in his letter of resignation, as the Head of the Psychiatry Department at the Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria:

The Code of Canon Law 332 § 2 states, " If it happens that the Roman Pontiff resigns his office, it is required for validity that the resignation is made freely and properly manifested but not that it is accepted by anyone.

The culmination of that conflict led to the resignation of the national team coach, Otto Pfister, and the threat made by the players not to play their game against Switzerland on 16 June 2006.

This was treated as an application for the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, an office of profit under the Crown, the traditional method of leaving Westminster as plain resignation is not possible, and granted as such even though Adams had not explicitly made the request.

" In 1935 and 1936, Hermann Weyl, head of the Göttingen mathematics department in 1933 until his resignation under Nazi pressure, made strong efforts to bring him to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

When Schleicher brought down Groener in May 1932, Groener made a point in his resignation speech of praising Raeder for his " correct " behaviour as opposed to Army officers like former protégé Schleicher who had undermined his leadership and plotted against him.

Allegations of a secret deal made with Ford, promising a pardon in return for Nixon's resignation, led Ford to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on October 17, 1974.

The fact that the municipality went bankrupt was officially declared on 18 October 2006 by the receiver Tommaso Blonda, appointed further to the resignation of the mayor, Rossana Di Bello, following her one-year-and-four-months imprisonment after her conviction for abuse of office and documental forgery in relation to investigations made on the contract for the management of the city incinerator given to the company Termomeccanica.

Victor Emanuel, however, declined Salandra's resignation and made the decision himself for Italy to enter the war.

Searches for formal documentation of his resignation have been made in the Church of Ireland archives, but nothing has been found.

Chrysler, who had resigned from many railroading jobs over the years, made his final resignation from railroading to become works manager ( in charge of production ) at Buick in Flint, Michigan.

Before the 2006 season, following Steinar Nilsen's resignation, Ivar Morten Normark was made the new Tromsø IL manager.

His resignation was made public on 27 March 1886.

By summer 1956 he wrote his " Letter of resignation to the Resident Minister " and made a clean break with his French assimilationist upbringing and education.

St Clair, fulfilling a promise he had made at the time of his election, then accepted the office of Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead, disqualifying himself from the House ( outright resignation not being possible ).

When he got there, he was informed that a series of telephone calls had been made by senior opposition figures ( and some independent TDs ), including Fianna Fáil leader ( and ex-Taoiseach ) Charles Haughey, Brian Lenihan and Sylvester Barrett demanding that the President, as he could constitutionally do where a Taoiseach had ' ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann ', refuse FitzGerald a parliamentary dissolution, forcing his resignation as Taoiseach and enabling the Dáil to nominate someone else for the post.

King George II, thwarted in his own favourite schemes, made overtures in 1746 to Lord Bath, but his purpose was upset by the resignation of the two Pelhams ( Henry and Newcastle ), who, after a two-day hiatus in which Bath and Carteret ( now earl Granville ) proved unable to form a ministry, resumed office at the king's request.

Grévy was not accused of personal participation in these scandals, but he was somewhat obstinate in refusing to realize that he was indirectly responsible for the misuse his relative had made of access to the Elysée, and it had to be unpleasantly impressed upon him that his resignation was inevitable ( 2 December 1887 ).

Three weeks after the government's massive loss in the by-election, on 27 May 1993, Lamont was sacked, ( technically resigning from the government because he declined a demotion to become Secretary of State for the Environment ), throwing ( by his own account ) Major's letter of regret at his departure unopened into the wastepaper basket, and giving a resignation speech in the House of Commons on 9 June, that made clear his feeling that he had been unfairly treated, saying that the government ' gives the impression of being in office but not in power '; the then Party Chairman Norman Fowler dismissed the speech as " dud, nasty, ludicrous and silly ".

He was not recommended for a peerage in John Major's resignation honours, but the following year William Hague recommended him, and Lamont was made a peer as Baron Lamont of Lerwick, of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands.

Ney's story, an early 19th-century folk-tale alleged that Michael Rudolph, a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War, had made his way to France after his forced resignation in 1793 and eventually becoming Ney.

Rothermere, realizing his situation, offered his resignation which was made public on 25 April.

When the conservatives were defeated and removed from power, Bulganin survived for a while, but in March 1958, at a session of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev forced his resignation.

King's resignation was considered a serious enough matter for the BBC to have senior journalist William Hardcastle announce it in a news flash.

He led senior Congress leaders in a protest, which resulted in Bose's resignation.

Its completion was delayed because of a dispute over patent rights between Eckert and Mauchly and the University of Pennsylvania, resulting in Eckert and Mauchly's resignation and departure to form the Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation and taking most of the senior engineers with them.

In this office he insisted that Eden's de facto deputy Rab Butler not be treated as senior to him, and threatened resignation until he was allowed to cut bread and milk subsidies.

Law entered the coalition government as Colonial Secretary in 1915, his first senior Cabinet post, and, following the resignation of Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Asquith, was invited by King George V to form a government, but he deferred to Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War and former Minister of Munitions, who he believed was better placed to lead a coalition ministry.

Bonar Law contemplated resignation, and after being talked out of it by senior ministers, once again vented his feelings in an anonymous letter to The Times.

He also came down hard on senior Irish police officers whom he thought useless, threatening resignation unless the Inspector-General of the RIC, Brigadier-General Joseph Byrne, was removed.

On 24 August, MacDonald submitted the resignation of his ministers and led his senior colleagues in forming the new National Government.

Following the first resignation of David Blunkett on 15 December 2004, Clarke was made Home Secretary, one of the senior positions in the Cabinet.

Most Speakers have been senior backbenchers of the party holding office at the start of a new Parliament, or at the time of the death or resignation of an incumbent Speaker.

He served as senior advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1998 and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing, from 2003 until his resignation in 2009 to take his position in the Obama Administration.

McCarthy was later a senior cabinet minister, serving in a variety of portfolios, in the governments of Social Credit Premier W. R. Bennett from 1975 to 1986 and of Social Credit Premier Bill Vander Zalm from 1986 until her resignation from cabinet in 1988.

Before turning in her own resignation, Johnson fired two other GSA senior executives, PBS head Robert Peck and senior advisor Stephen Leeds.

Damian McBride, a former senior Labour Party strategist, was shifted from being Gordon Brown's political spokesperson to Number 10, after criticism of how he handled Ruth Kelly's resignation.

After the 1987 resignation of Jerome Kohlberg at age 61 ( he later founded his own private equity firm, Kohlberg & Co .), Henry Kravis succeeded him as senior partner.

They can also appoint senior judges to serve on any state court at or below the highest level of court that judge had served on before retirement or resignation.

: Medusa is a senior member of the Sorority, and briefly serves as Vice-President after Mona Lisa's resignation.

After a series of poor Test performances following the resignation of several senior players, the Zimbabwean team was voluntarily suspended from Test cricket in late 2005 by its cricket board, with ICC encouragement.

He returned to the role of caretaker of the senior team in October 2000 following the resignation of Hoddle's permanent successor Kevin Keegan, overseeing a 0 – 0 draw in a World Cup qualifying match against Finland.

On 6 November 2007, he retracted his resignation offer after he was asked to stay on as leader by senior party officials and members.

According to historian Peter Gumpel, Pope Pius XII told senior bishops that should he be arrested by the Nazis, his resignation would become effective immediately, paving the way for a successor, according to documents in the Vatican's Secret Archives.

In August 2007, a story in the Victoria News sparked a complaint from an advertiser and led to the firing / resignation of three senior Black Press employees.