She resigned as leader of the Norwegian Labour Party in 1992.

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

Halonen was a surprising candidate as she didn't represent many traditional values: She was known as a left-wing social democratic party member, who lived in a domestic partnership, was a single parent and had resigned from the national church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.

She was preparing to work again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey for the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but resigned to feature in In Her Shoes.

She soon resigned from the party and returned to journalism, but when CLP Chief Minister Marshall Perron resigned from his Darwin seat of Fannie Bay, causing a by-election, she decided to make another attempt to enter Parliament.

She refuses to marry Akeem even after he offers to renounce his throne, and he returns to Zamunda with a broken heart, resigned to marry the woman chosen for him by his parents.

She moved the family to a smaller house, resigned from the Board of Guardians, and was given a paid position as Registrar of Births and Deaths in Chorlton.

She organized a fight to regain control of the committee and, upon their failure she resigned, triggering a wave of resignations from other Hollywood figures, including her own star-recruit to the reform camp, Ronald Reagan.

She therefore resigned her position at Chicago.

She apologized to Congressional committees in 1996 for spending which exceeded limits on the funds appropriated to the agency for travel, and resigned in January 1997.

She emerges from behind the car in the dress, and he realizes she's resigned herself to being a civilian.

She resigned when students complained of her lack of knowledge on the subject she taught.

She resigned effective September 30, citing " dysfunctional ” governance and “ shoddy and opaque ” business practices that had plunged the organization into a financial crisis.

She served on the party's national executive in 1975, but resigned when a proposal that the INLA become subordinate to the party executive was defeated.

She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010 ; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent.

She resigned on 12 May.

She furthered her study of the piano and violin, taking the place of the music teacher at White's when the woman resigned.

She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life.

She resigned in 1957 after marrying an RAF officer, John Forward, in December of that year.

She later temporarily resigned from the Academy, following the broadcast of a BBC Omnibus television documentary about the preparations for the controversial Sensation exhibition hosted by the Academy in 1997 show-casing the Young British Artists.

She was the subject of a portrait by Adam Buck, and a caricature by Isaac Cruikshank ; ten days after the latter's publication, the Duke resigned from his post as Commander of the British Army.

She resigned the same evening, citing the lack of political trust, and without admitting any wrongdoing.

She later resigned from the FTC in 1979 to campaign for her husband's 1980 presidential run.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

She also starred in the successful musicals Lili ( 1953 ), with Mel Ferrer ; Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ), with Fred Astaire, and Gigi ( 1958 ) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

She spent her last years in a close personal and professional collaboration with anthropologist Rhoda Metraux, with whom she lived from 1955 until her death in 1978. Letters between the two published in 2006 with the permission of Mead's daughter clearly express a romantic relationship.

She writes that only three fragmentary manuscripts are known to have survived into the modern period, two 3rd-century fragments ( P. Rylands 463 and P. Oxyrhynchus 3525 ) published in 1938 and 1983, and a longer 5th-century Coptic translation ( Berolinensis Gnosticus 8052, 1 ) published in 1955.

She returned to Mexico in 1955, and filmed successful films like La Escondida ( 1955 ) with Pedro Armendariz, Tizoc ( 1956 ) with Pedro Infante and The Soldiers of Pancho Villa ( 1959 ) with Dolores del Rio.

She is portrayed by Claire Bloom in Laurence Olivier's 1955 film adaptation of the play, Kristin Scott Thomas in Ian McKellen's 1995 adaptation of the play and by Winona Ryder in the 1996 movie Looking for Richard.

She was next signed by 20th Century Fox in 1955 as their answer to MGM's Elizabeth Taylor.

She made her Hollywood debut in Howard Hawks's Land of the Pharaohs ( 1955 ) and appeared in Island in the Sun ( 1957 ).

She has one elder brother, Rick ( born 1955 ), and two younger sisters, Dedee Pfeiffer, a television and film actress, and Lori Pfeiffer ( born 1965 ).

She played the female lead in Tight Spot ( 1955 ), a mystery thriller, with Edward G. Robinson.

She sank in Portland harbour in 1955 as a result of an accidental torpedo explosion, was subsequently raised and then sunk as a target in 1957.

She completed the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ( MBBS ) in 1956 at the University of Sydney, residing at The Women's College from 1950 to 1955.

She retired from athletics in 1955, after which she became captain of the Dutch female track and field team.

She last stayed with him months before he died in 1955.

She publishing the Reef Point Gardens Bulletin ( 1946 – 1955 ) in which she reported on the progress of the gardens and center.

She graduated from Pope Pius XII High School in Passaic, NJ, in 1955.

She also published two books of short stories: A Good Man Is Hard to Find ( 1955 ) and Everything That Rises Must Converge ( published posthumously in 1965 ).

She was returning from school on March 2, 1955 when she got on a Capital Heights bus downtown ( at the same place Parks boarded another bus nine months later ).

She was born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Charles E. Hedrick and Lillian Grayson Hedrick ( 1897 – 1955 ).

She met with her first family in 1951, and by 1955 was working with Illinois Psychiatric Institute, encouraging other therapists to focus on families instead of individual patients.

She and her family moved to Belleville, New Jersey, where she graduated Salutatorian from Belleville High School Class of 1955.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

She entered RADA, with a scholarship, in September 1955, the same year as Dame Diana Rigg and Glenda Jackson.