The attorney general and the secretary of state threatened to resign if President Buchanan gave in to South Carolina's demands.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Years that saw John Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King all murdered, the war in Southeast Asia expand, a president resign.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He offered to resign after the 1832 elections and give Van Buren the job of president.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Years earlier, she had urged him to resign from the Senate and return to New Hampshire.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

But demonstrations fueled by the economic crisis led the Latvian government to resign last month.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

But it was also Nixon who became the first and only American president to resign.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein discovered wrongdoing that led President Richard Nixon to resign.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Ted Kennedy asked voters in Massachusetts whether he should resign from the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

About one hundred fifty Egyptian archeology students and workers demanded that he resign.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

If the cabinet members do not approve of this, let them resign."

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The governor, a Democrat, denies any wrongdoing and has refused to resign.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Recognition of such mistakes forced I.P.C.C.chairman Rajendra Pachauri to resign.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to resign.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

Arthur asked Garfield's cabinet to resign.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The army forced him to resign.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Fillmore asked the old cabinet to resign.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Conkling decided to resign in protest.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

The inquiry does not call for any officers to resign, and former general Yaakov Amidror believes that is the right decision.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

President Abbas has threatened to resign, and his government says it is pushing unilaterally for the declaration of a Palestinian state.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been indicted on corruption allegations that forced him to resign last year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went on trial on corruption charges that prompted him to resign last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Instead of running for president, the senator was asking voters in Massachusetts whether he should resign from the Senate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The president may only resign his office and then the president of the Senate assumes the presidency temporarily.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz says he will resign his military commission and run for president June 6.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Prime Minister Topolanek told reporters that he could resign Thursday, after talks with European Union officials.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Thousands of Protesters have been camped around the compound since late March, demanding the government resign.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

Mr.Rajoelina, a former disc jockey, led the military-backed movement that forced Mr.Ravalomanana to resign last March.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

And Gordon Brown would then have to set off to the palace to resign."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10