The unofficial leader of the team, Thomas Jefferson, had been the appointed Financial Secretary until March 1992, when he resigned over public spending disputes to fight the election.

Thelma Barlow, who played Derek's wife Mavis, was angered by the sacking of her co-star and resigned, while the production team also lost some of its key writers when Barry Hill, Adele Rose and Julian Roach all resigned.

In February 2012, Fabio Capello resigned from his role as England manager, following a disagreement with the FA over their request to remove John Terry from team captaincy after accusations of racial abuse concerning the player.

Matt Busby resigned as manager in 1969 and was replaced by the reserve team coach, former Manchester United player Wilf McGuinness.

In the face of his team being united against him, as well as nationwide condemnation, Carey resigned in disgrace from North Melbourne.

Van Basten became trainer of Ajax after Euro 2008 but resigned on 6 May 2009 after his team failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League.

Setting the tone for a new era of Heat basketball, Arison hired Pat Riley to be the new head coach and team president of the Miami Heat ; Riley resigned as coach of the New York Knicks immediately following the 1994 – 1995 season.

On February 10, 2011, with the team record at 31 – 23 after a loss to the Chicago Bulls, head coach Jerry Sloan resigned, along with assistant Phil Johnson.

Jackson returned to coach the team after Rudy Tomjanovich resigned midway through the previous season.

The post of chief operating officer is currently vacant ; the most recent COO of the team was Mike Golub, who resigned in July 2008 to take a more enhanced role with VSE.

As the decade turned, a shift in the Canucks ' leadership occurred as Stan Smyl resigned his captaincy prior to the 1990 – 91 season due to a reduced on-ice role with the team.

A number of people resigned from Norris's campaign team.

Eddie Murphy, who was scheduled to host the ceremony, also resigned in deference to a new production team.

In October 2006, team owner Leslie Alexander ( who also owns the NBA's Houston Rockets team ) announced he was selling the Comets, and longtime Head Coach Van Chancellor resigned in January 2007.

In 2006, the Northwestern women's soccer team was suspended and coach Jenny Haigh resigned following the release of images of alleged hazing.

Kenilworth Town F. C., on Gypsy Lane south of the town, played in the Midland Combination until June 2011 when it resigned, preferring to spend money on ground improvements rather than field a team.

When the German astronaut team was merged into a European Space Agency, he did not transfer, but resigned to work at IBM Germany.

Fohl resigned after the game, citing growing criticism from the fans and team president James Dunn tabbed Speaker as manager.

With her team floundering to an 8 – 15 record, head coach Suzie McConnell Serio resigned on July 23.

On March 3, 2006, Lonie Glieberman resigned from day-to-day operations of the team, acknowledging that he made mistakes during his tenure.

Under pressure from British American Tobacco, Pollock resigned on the eve of the launch of the 2002 car and was replaced as team principal by David Richards.

However, in January 2004, General Manager Johnny Moore, whose roots with the club dated back to his days as a player for the NASL Earthquakes, resigned after AEG and MLS considered allowing the team to be rebranded as San Jose America ( with ownership to transfer to the owners of Mexico's Club América ).

One of the casualties of the team's financial woes was Mullaney, who resigned after being told the team couldn't afford to meet his contract.

He finished with the team and filled his pipe and stood looking about him.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.

Rabb, the former Louisiana State field general, came off the bench for his debut with the Bills Sunday and directed his new team to a 22-12 upset victory over the Houston Oilers, defending league champions.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.

So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

The true and global revitalisation of interest in the concept dates from 1903, when Pelham Warner took a team to Australia with the promise that he would regain " the ashes ".

:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

Australia consolidated their status as the leading team in world cricket with a hard-fought 2 – 1 away series.

In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

However, when a speaker wishes to emphasize that the individuals are acting separately, a plural pronoun may be employed with a singular or plural verb: the team takes their seats or the team take their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

The team finished the 1960s with only 12 wins.

The team finished with a franchise best 14 – 2 regular season record and the NFC West division championship.

On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

When the team debuted in 1966, the Falcons wore red helmets with a black falcon crest logo.

The team finished the 2002 season with a 98-64 record and won the NL West Division Title, but were swept out in the NLDS by the St. Louis Cardinals.

Webb went 16 – 8 with a 3. 10 ERA and in the 2006 season was named to his first All-Star team.

In the 2007 regular season, the Diamondbacks enjoyed success with a young team including Brandon Webb, Conor Jackson, Stephen Drew, Carlos Quentin, Chad Tracy, Chris Young, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds ( called up from Double-A in May ) and Justin Upton ( called up from Double-A in August ).