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

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

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

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

Kyrgyzstan's five-day-old . provisional government is vowing to use the country's military to launch a special operation to neutralize President Kurmanbek Bakiyev if he does not resign.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

After a presidential election, the government has to resign and be re-appointed.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

They want Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign and call new elections.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Protestors,such as this man, pressed the government to resign.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Mr.Olmert's centrist Kadima party forced him to resign a year ago, after an American Jewish businessman testified that he gave him envelopes stuffed with cash to support a lavish lifestyle, including fancy hotels, expensive cigars and first-class travel.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25