In 1870, he resigned from the French Army and returned home to the United States where he married Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar, daughter of Samuel and Julia Webster Appleton, and widow of Newbold Edgar.

The Shadow Cabinet voted to support a referendum on 29 March 1972, and as a result Roy Jenkins resigned as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

In 1985, when INMOS management suggested the release of the transputer be delayed, Miles Chesney, David Alden, Eric Barton, Roy Bottomley, James Cownie and Gerry Talbot resigned and formed Meiko ( Japanese for " well-engineered ") to start work on massively parallel machines based on the processor.

At the same time, Roy E. Disney, who had already resigned as President in 1977, relinquished his spot on the Board of Directors in order to use his clout to change the status quo and improve the company's declining fortune.

Roy resigned from the board of directors in 2003 with a scathing letter that called the company " rapacious and soulless ", adding that he considered it to be " always looking for the quick buck.

Healey was appointed Shadow Chancellor in April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned in a row over the European Economic Community ( Common Market ).

In 2003, Roy E. Disney, the son of Disney co-founder Roy O. Disney and nephew of Walt Disney, resigned from his positions as Disney vice chairman and chairman of Walt Disney Features.

Roy Disney resigned as an executive from the Disney company in 1977 due to disagreements with corporate decisions then.

In 1981, unhappy with the influence of the far left in the Labour Party, she resigned from it to form the SDP, along with Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers.

After Labour's defeat in the 1970 General Election, he became the party's Junior Defence Spokesman until 1972 when he resigned with Roy Jenkins over Labour's opposition to the European Community.

Matters were made worse for the federal NDP after Saskatchewan's NDP Premier Roy Romanow resigned in 2000 after the party lost seats in the 1999 Saskatchewan provincial election, and afterwards suggested that the federal NDP should merge with the Liberal Party.

The arrangement did not work out and Roy Evans resigned in November after losing to Tottenham Hotspur 3 – 1 at home in the League Cup.

In France, moderate communists, such as historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, resigned, questioning the policy of supporting Soviet actions by the French Communist Party.

In April 1972 he stood for the deputy leadership of the party after Roy Jenkins resigned.

This also occurred when Ricky Sbragia got the Sunderland job permanently after Roy Keane's resignation in November 2008 but he resigned himself at the end of the season 2008 – 09.

Though the party not only recovered many seats but also gained more votes overall than Devine's Progressive Conservatives, he fell short of defeating the government and resigned in 1987 to be succeeded by Roy Romanow.

Roy was appointed leader of the federal Social Credit Party of Canada on March 30, 1979, and resigned his National Assembly seat on April 5, 1979.

Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley resigned in 1992 following a further Labour Party defeat at the polls.

He subsequently served as Education Secretary 1968 – 70, and became Labour's deputy leader on 25 April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned over differences on European policy.

Roy resigned from the leadership on November 1, 1980.

After eight years in charge of Glentoran, Roy Coyle resigned as manager after a string of indifferent results.

Kemble resigned as head coach after captain Roy Asotasi and David Kidwell both publicly said that they had no confidence in his coaching abilities.

Liberal leader Robert Nixon resigned soon after this election, and Roy entered the race to succeed him.

* Roy E. Disney ( 1930 – 2009 ), son of Roy O. and leader of the Save Disney campaign

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

He was finally elected as Labour Party leader on 2 October 1983, with 71 % of the vote, and Roy Hattersley was elected as his deputy ; their prospective partnership was considered to be a ' dream ticket '.

His own first date as leader, Where ?, with Dolphy and Mal Waldron and a date also with Dolphy called Out There with George Duvivier and Roy Haynes and Carter on cello ; its advanced harmonies and concepts were in step with the third stream movement.

Also in 1948, Wynonie Harris ' remake of Roy Brown's 1947 recording " Good Rockin ' Tonight " hit the charts in the # 2 spot, following band leader Sonny Thompson's " Long Gone " at # 1.

Wilson won the case, and all royalties from the song ( composed by Move leader Roy Wood ) were assigned in perpetuity to a charity of Wilson's choosing.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, the leader of the French Annales School, notes the king was handsome, athletic, intelligent and an excellent hunter, but that he disappointed the people.

* Ben ( voiced by Roy Conrad ) is the protagonist of the game and a biker gang leader, though the other Polecats spend most of the game in prison with Ben trying to get them out of it.

* Roy F. Brissenden, World War II pilot, physicist, aeronautical engineer, mechanical engineer, teacher, inventor, project leader at Hampton, Langley Research Center NACA / NASA ; great genius of the Apollo Program

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

The SDP fought its first by-election, in Warrington, with future leader Roy Jenkins standing as " SDP with Liberal support ".

Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri took over as acting leader.

In 1987 immediately after the election, the Liberal leader David Steel proposed a full merger of the Liberal and SDP parties and was supported for the SDP by Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers.

They were joined by the former Labour deputy leader Roy Jenkins who had previously had discussions with Steel about joining the Liberals.

Shortly afterwards David Owen replaced Roy Jenkins as leader of the SDP and the troubled leadership of the " Two Davids " was inaugurated.

* Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, leader of Annales School, France

At her suggestion, Roy wins another silly wager with Simms, the leader after the first round.

High-profile party members such as former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, Allan Blakeney and Roy Romanow of Saskatchewan, Gary Doer of Manitoba and Alexa McDonough of Nova Scotia all encouraged him to run, as did several representatives of organized labour.

Following the resignation of NDP leader and Premier Roy Romanow, Calvert won the NDP leadership, and became premier on February 8, 2001.

Roy Welensky, a railway trade union leader who had been elected in 1938, set up the Northern Rhodesian Labour Party as a party favouring amalgamation.

His first album as a leader was Tones for Joan's Bones in 1966, two years before the release of his album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, with Roy Haynes on drums and Miroslav Vitouš on bass.

* Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader & Executive Director of the NAACP

The current active leader in shutouts is Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies.

However, Tyndall's leadership faced a number of challenges from both populists and Strasserites, beginning with a running feud with Roy Painter, then his replacement as leader by John Kingsley Read and culminating in the two groups uniting to form the breakaway National Party in 1976.