All 32 Uses
resignation
in
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
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- So why did you resign from the police force?
Part 3 *resign = quit
- It was evident to everyone that he was resigned to his fate.
Part 4 *resigned = had accepted something undesirable as unavoidable
- By now resigned to his futility, Blomkvist had observed their comings and goings from his vantage point in Paulsson's vehicle.†
Part 1
- Björck felt suddenly resigned.†
Part 1
- I'm about to resign from Millennium, and I haven't been able to tell Mikael.†
Part 1
- He explained in a low voice that if that happened, he would be forced to tender his resignation immediately.†
Part 1
- And if the person responsible for Zalachenko's safety had seen fit to resign, such a revelation would be a political disaster for the prime minister.†
Part 1
- She resigned abruptly.†
Part 2
- You either have to resign from Millennium's board before we publish, or resign from SMP.†
Part 2
- You either have to resign from Millennium's board before we publish, or resign from SMP.†
Part 2
- I'm so linked to Millennium that no-one will believe I didn't have a hand in this, whether I resign or not.†
Part 2
- You could take the story to SMP and confront Borgsjö and demand his resignation.†
Part 2
- Francke and P. G. Vinge never saw eye to eye, and he was more or less forced to resign at the age of fifty or fifty-five.†
Part 3
- If Borgsjö was smart, he would apologize and resign from his positions on various boards.†
Part 3
- She would go to Borgsjö, show him the document, and thereby hope to persuade him to resign before the story was published.†
Part 3
- And if they did not, she would have to resign, effective immediately.†
Part 3
- She took stock of the cabbage stew with resignation.†
Part 3
- She had resigned the same evening and gone home and cried for a week.†
Part 3
- That's why you have to resign.†
Part 3
- I'm resigning here and now.†
Part 3
- He resigned in 1991.†
Part 3
- She was angry, and she filled two pages explaining why she was resigning, including her opinion of various colleagues.†
Part 3
- It meant that she had no choice but to resign her position as editor.†
Part 3
- Svenska Morgon-Posten's CEO and chairman of the board, Magnus Borgsjö, had capitulated and tendered his resignation.†
Part 4
- Borgsjö cited family reasons as the explanation for his unexpected resignation.†
Part 4
- He would not comment on claims that Berger had also resigned after he ordered her to cover up a story about his involvement in the wholesale enterprise Vitavara Inc. But in a sidebar it was reported that the chair of Svenskt Näringsliv, the confederation of Swedish enterprise, had decided to set up an ethics committee to investigate the dealings of Swedish companies with businesses in Southeast Asia known to exploit child labour.†
Part 4
- She resigned because of differences of opinion with Magnus Borgsjö.†
Part 4
- When all this is over, I want you to resign from the management of the Section.†
Part 4
- She was in a meeting with the newspaper publishers' association, sharing her views on the planned cutbacks at SMP, which had given rise to a major conflict in the industry after she had resigned.†
Part 4
- The prosecutor suddenly seemed resigned.†
Part 4
- "Thanks," he said, sighing in resignation.†
Part 4
- She was subsequently forced to resign.†
Part notes
Definitions:
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(1)
(resignation as in: submitted her resignation) to quit -- especially a job or position; or a document expressing such an act
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(2)
(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) To resign can also more specifically mean to surrender or give up as in "I was clearly going to lose the chess game, so I resigned;" or "She resigned all pretense."