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Whether Mr Persson wins or not, most pundits expect him to step down within a year or two.

David Wu of Oregon said he would step down following the resolution of the debt limit crisis in Washington.

A growing number of followers would like to see him step down in favour of the younger interior minister, Roberto Maroni.

That may be a step down for someone so renowned in his youth but it would constitute a renaissance after four years of decline at Newcastle.

Contrary to western media speculation, Kim Jong Il did not step down nor did he hand over any of his powers to his son.

Before getting into English the word came from Old French and in moving to English it seems to taken a step down in the world.

However allies of Pervez Musharraf say he won't step down and is ready to fight the charges.

To stop the division and the long-existing feud between senior Somali politicians, I decided to step down from my position.

The army chief behind Thailand's coup said yesterday he would step down in two weeks and promised elections next year.

Gregg broke ranks with some of his fellow Republicans and said he did not think Geithner should step down from his Cabinet post.

Indeed, taking a step down in pay is so common that the best question is no longer "when is it okay to take a salary cut? "

She has just a "slight" step down to the muzzle (stop) and I think this beautiful head would be enhanced by more here.

Michael Geoghegan is to step down as chief executive of HSBC at the end of the year, according to two people close to the bank's board.

She went, with her neat figure, and her sober womanly step, down the dark street.

The demonstrators believe he lacks legitimacy and want him to call fresh elections, but Mr Abhisit has refused to step down.

He said he would step down, but at the beginning of next year.

The red-shirts are trying to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to step down and call an election.

Less than a year into his presidency, he is facing calls from within his own party to step down after just one term.

All colors, all of downtown, all the best, in the dark lantern, the actor with the call to step down at the moment.

The chairman of Lloyds Banking Group said he would step down within a year, heading off a shareholder revolt.

And while the president is 74 and scheduled to step down in less than three years, he has indicated that he might stay on beyond that.

Asked to run for public office, Cronkite reportedly said he could not step down from his anchor post.

Mr Daniels is one of several bank bosses, including Barclays' John Varley and HSBC's Stephen Green, to step down in recent weeks.

Mr. Chen insists he is innocent of any wrongdoing connected to the cases, but has said he would step down if his wife is found guilty.

Some want to impeach him or expect him to step down. Even some Democratic congressmen want to make a clean break with him.

As the step-down transformer has no load when the SCR is turned off, the system is stable during switching.

Olmert said he was informing his cabinet about his decision to step down from his post as Prime Minister of Israel.

His second option is to persuade Mr Putin to step down, or to sack him. This would amount to a palace coup.

The next day he said he would step down at the end of year but the opposition immediately rejected that offer.

He said his relationship with controversial wide receiver Terrell Owens was not a major issue in his move to step down.

There is at least a chance that the president will step down and that, at last, less fettered power will be handed to Mr Tsvangirai.

More broadly, though, this release seems to me to mark another step down for the WikiLeaks concept.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he would not run for a new term but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he would step down in 2011.

He raised salaries and said he would step down when his term ends in September 2013.

He wrote only that he had always said he would step down as CEO if he felt he could no longer do the job to his high standards.

Mr von Beust is the sixth state premier from Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union to step down in less than a year.

But he said Monday that he had decided to step down after discussing his predicament with family members.

The question on the table would have been unthinkable just a week before. Should Mr. Obama call for Mr. Mubarak to step down?

The US said the meeting reiterated its demand that Col Gaddafi step down, and involved no negotiations.

Looked up to me to see a perfect wave. So I move perfect, big step down!

Speaking on television, he said that he would step down after parliament accepts a raft of economic reforms that he's proposed.

Mark Wilson has said he would step down once the deal closed because the proposed combination of the two Asian businesses was "unworkable" .

Up to now, the Libyan opposition leaders to reject any form of cease-fire, including Gaddafi's son to step down or conditions.

In the waves of warm applause, she bowed to step down over and over, a one-trick is all style.

As the protests intensified, Ben Ali offered concessions to his people: 23 years into his reign, he agreed to step down in 2014.

The president said he'd step down by January next year, but only after organising parliamentary elections.

Mother distressed me, let me step down in deep-water dirty, foul.

US President Barack Obama has said the Libyan leader should step down and leave the country immediately.

Doubtless he also made a joke when he told the firm's board that he would step down at the end of the year.

That's certainly better than nothing, but it's still a step down from the nearly 4% median increase seen in the pre-recession days of 2007.

When a transformer is supplied energy at a given voltage and delivers it at some lower voltage, it is called step-down transformer.

She could use her decision to step down as evidence that she would not seek higher office while governor and so do harm to her home state.

Mel Martinez said he would step down as a senator for Florida before the autumn.

To his credit, Mr Erdogan was the first Muslim leader to tell Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to step down.

This week's news that Patricia Dunn will step down in January as chairman of HP's board in favour of Mr Hurd may not prove so inspired.

Mr Mbeki, who has to step down as president after two terms, may be tempted to remain in the party post, which has no time limit.

When his failing health forced him to step down as Apple's boss in August, he was hailed by some as the greatest chief executive in history.

Suzanne kept her word to me not to let on to others that I intend to step down next month.

Mr. Hatoyama said he had also asked Mr. Ozawa to resign and that Mr. Ozawa had agreed to step down.

Our class in the QQ group chatting, it was said that Yi can be forced to step down once the moment, she cried and cried all night.

Japan's media conducted next leadership polls after its Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, announced to step down in the near future.

Even as Wall Street exulted over Mr. Yang's decision to step down, the mood inside Yahoo, where morale has been low, was more muted.

When his failing health forced him to step down as Apple's boss in August, he was hailed as the greatest chief executive in history.

Ray and I are announcing today Ray's intention to step down from his role as chief software architect.

Papandreou was reported to have later indicated he could step down even if he won today's knife-edge vote of confidence in parliament.

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Ethiopia has no term limits, but he says he will step down in 2015.

It was the first suggestion from the 81-year-old Castro that he might step down permanently from the presidency.

It was the first suggestion from the 81-year old leader that he might permanently step down from the presidency.

Queen Elizabeth's second son Prince Andrew is to step down from his job as Britain's special representative for trade and investment.

If he is leaving earlier than he wanted (he will step down in October, and as chairman in May) it is at most a few months early.

Amanpour interrupted. "But they are calling on your father to step down, " she said.

You either take a step down the correct career path. Or you fall into a life sucking abyss.

Mellberg informed me a few days ago that he would like to step down as captain and it is a decision I have to accept, said Lagerback.

A defiant Mr Martin presided over a rowdy chamber on Monday, facing down MPs calling on him to step down.

To substitute social media for human contact is incrementally a step down in customer service.

The manager had to step down on account of poor health.

Laurent Gbagbo, who's refusing to step down as president, has called for UN peacekeeping troops to leave the country.

But no coup leaders stepped forward to demand that Mr Correa step down or to proclaim a new government.

Jibril said that he expected to step down on Saturday, a move he had planned to make once his government took full control of the country.

Mr Kan's resignation comes almost three months after he first indicated he would step down to make room for a younger leader.

Not any more. Wiedeking was forced to step down on Thursday, defeated in the power struggle over Porsche's future.

Still, Ms Lublin says that if her new shareholders ever ask her to step down, she will go.

The Egyptian army said on Monday it would not use force against those staging protests to demand Hosni Mubarak, president, step down.

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi will step down within a few days, the country's president has said.

Korea Broadcasting System's (KBS) President had to step down from his position for breach of trust when the Beijing Olympics started.

On Thursday, Gbagbo security forces shot dead at least seven women during a protest calling for Mr. Gbagbo to step down.

Mr. Zuma didn't mention whether Col. Gadhafi is ready to step down, as rebels have demanded.

By Thursday, some of those same leaders were meeting with Mr. Mubarak and urging him to step down.

Rasmussen did not confirm growing reports that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is exploring options to step down.

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As many people know, our current Ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, has decided to step down from his current job.

Less sympathetic analysts have noted that three-fifths or more of the electorate think he should step down in 2012.

Conclusion The key point of reducing the incidence of pernicious placenta praevia is to step down the rate of cesarean section.

Mr Zhou could have been expected to step down soon in any case, as he will have served five years as PBoC chief by December.

Five months later, a more frequent chant you hear is for Tantawi to step down and for military rule to end.

One reason for the turnaround, says Mr. Wood, is that many executives who had put off retirement are finally getting ready to step down.

The elder Murdoch said in a statement that he is "saddened" by his son's unexpected decision to step down.

Let Vice Mayor Chen step down to get out of dollars .

If you're unwilling to completely leave the field of IT, you could step down from that fortune 500 position and join a much smaller company.

I hung in the wind a moment before asking leave to step down .

La Stampa says Braida will step down from his director's job at Milan in the summer, but will remain as an advisor.

As public opposition to the war increased, even some Republicans joined the calls for the defense secretary to step down.

Several Labour lawmakers called for him to step down and some cabinet members visited him separately.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen offered to step down in 2013, after a paltry twenty-three years in power.

Mr. Ouattara had called for a national strike Monday to try to force the incumbent president to step down.

Following his arrest in New York on sex charges, there are growing calls for him to step down immediately to avoid damaging the institution.

William Bratton announced that he would step down as the chief of police in Los Angeles to head a private security firm.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is also embroiled in a corruption scandal that could force him to step down.

The face of the silence of the class, teachers take the initiative to step down, "Now it does not matter, there are a lot of time. "

She is to step down in the cabinet reshuffle expected next week, following local and European elections.

Think of me to go to university of pay to be happy, I must study hard, can step down jobs, to contribute to the country.

No, but they stuck me in personal shopping. Which is just a huge step down!

Howeve, if there was an impression that Milan were favoured then it's better to step down.

The move wasn't enough to placate protesters, however, who have consistently demanded that he step down immediately.

He has said he would then step down as chairman.

Five Irish bishops offered to step down; the pope has accepted three resignations and is considering the others.

Opposition leaders who refrained from criticizing him after the crisis have renewed their calls for him to step down.

Next May our company's president will step down , and we will have to elect a new one at the next stockholders'meeting.

The White House said President Obama was informed of Mr. Mubarak's decision to step down during a meeting in the Oval Office.

Garber will succeed Steven E. Hyman, who in December announced his decision to step down at the end of this academic year.

Yemen's president had welcomed a proposal by Gulf Arab nations for him to step down to end the country's political crisis.

It was not enough. The situation only grew worse when the president three times rejected a regionally-brokered deal to step down sooner.

More than 100 people have died in two months of protests calling for the president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

Separately, Mr Berlusconi said he planned to step down as prime minister in 2013.

For this article, we have chosen a step-down approach in which an object is placed below and to the right of the previous object.

A general election is due next year. He had previously hinted he might step down after it.

Green , 61 , said this week he would step down to become trade minister for the U. K .

The Italian government submitted a budget vote which passed but failed to generate a majority which caused PM Berlusconi to step down.

Of course, that poll was taken before she announced, on July 3rd, that she would step down as governor of Alaska without finishing her term.

You'll probably have to take a step down in pay, but it gives you the chance to prove yourself.

Gadhafi relinquished any formal role in government and often answered demands that he step down by saying he had already done so.

The United States, France, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the African Union urged Mr Gbagbo to step down immediately.

Mr. A committed a serious fault and had to step down from his position.

But Beijing's intrinsic conservatism has only gotten worse as the top leadership prepares for Mr. Hu to step down next year.

The Syrian opposition has rejected Assad's proposal and demanded again for him to step down.

When his failinghealth forced him to step down as Apple's boss in August, he was hailed by someas the greatest chief executive in history.

Mr Napolitano may call on Mr Berlusconi to step down, but he cannot force him to do so.

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THe Minister offered to step down, taking responsibility for causing controversy over the issue of hiring his daughter.

The Obama administration has said Mr. Gadhafi has lost legitimacy as a leader since attacking civilians, and should step down.

It also hastened the resignation of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had pledged to step down once the package had been passed.

Reports that it is clear that the requirements of the United States for the first time al-Assad to step down.

Naoto Kan that deal with nuclear disaster punish poor, should step down the noise has increasing trend.

Putin was forced to step down from the presidency in 2008 due to a constitutional limit on more than two consecutive terms.

Blair has said he will step down as prime minister before September.

If you wait for doomsday, you may be forced to jump into something you utterly dislike or take a step down.

The firm announced that its unpopular chief executive Tony Hayward would step down on October 1st.

Thousands of people have occupied a square in the Tunisian capital Tunis to demand that the transitional government step down.

Weldon said he is on a private mission to urge the Libyan leader to step down.

I'm not ready to step down yet.

You can choose to drop them and continue with a lightness in your step down a road that you are creating for yourself now.

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This is enough for this brief update and I step down to let Esu finish the piece.

As the founders step down at several of the bigger private-equity firms, succession may add to the burden.

Ms Otunbayeva is, remarkably for a Central Asian leader, keeping her promise to step down as president.

Now we have been of no avail in this discussion, after all, not only with our speculation and suspicion, had a mayor to step down now!

Day, in a news conference, Obama said Western countries will not relax the pressure on Libya, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to step down.

Mrs Arroyo is not a candidate, and says she will step down when her term ends at the end of June.

And now, before I forget, a warning to our dark brothers who did NOT step down when asked in 2005.

In May you blogged about your decision to step down from the gwt-ext project due to the controversial licensing changes with ExtJS.

As the state made in Nigeria Friday saying they'll send a delegation to Mr. Gbagbo, convincing him to step down peacefully they hope.

Protesters in Yemen have for months been calling for Saleh to step down over the country's lack of freedoms and extreme poverty.

That is why, on March 3rd, Mr Obama said the colonel had lost all legitimacy and had to "step down from power and leave" .

A bigger bloodbath seems inescapable if he does not step down.

It's the first step down a slippery slope of being manipulated with numbers and overpaying for your vehicle.

The controversy over the comments has fueled calls from Mr. Kan's critics for the prime minister to step down.

The old home town looks the same as I step down from the train.

The guy had set up his pedal-operated sharpening stone in one of the gloomy step-down doorways in the South End.

The reduction of people to material objects is merely another step down in the process of dehumanization.

He plans to remain chairman for about two years or until Mr. Gorman decides Mr. Mack should step down.

They also said they'd support her decision to step down in 2013.

Ivory Coast was suspended from the African Union when Mr Gbagbo refused to step down despite losing last November's presidential elections.

Mr Medvedev made it clear that he wanted him to step down.

Mr. Musharraf's plea for unity follows opposition calls for him to step down.

The military in Fiji says it's taken over the island nation's elected government and forced the Prime Minister to step down.

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Threats by evangelical churches to withhold their dues if Dr John was not forced to step down were taken seriously in Lambeth Palace.

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It's a first step down a road like the one you mention - full windshield HUDs perhaps, or something entirely different.

i'm old enough to step down from the office.

Chancellors at Cambridge tend to be elected unopposed and serve until they step down or die.

Washington has begun privately telling American allies that Mr. Saleh, who had said that he would step down at year's end, should leave now.

Suharto was forced to step down amid massive popular demonstrations and a faltering economy in 1998.

The EU and the U. S. also called on Mr. Assad to step down over the summer.

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Hopes are also rapidly fading that Beijing can persuade or coerce its renegade ally in Pyongyang to step down from the nuclear precipice.

It is to be hoped that he can if necessary be persuaded to stay on beyond August, when he had planned to step down.

Yes. He will perish: there is no real hope, " echoed Carton. And walked with a settled step, down-stairs. "

The papers are counted, and, lo, if the count so says, the holders of the supreme powers of the state step down.

Late Wednesday night Mr Rudd remained defiant and vowed to fight until the end but by early Thursday morning he was encouraged to step down.

In Yemen, meanwhile, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has resisted calls to step down, pushing his country to the brink of civil war.

Thus, we hypothesized that as Windows XP senses that the CPU is idle, it triggers or allows the CPU to step down its clock rate.

Syrian opposition groups ended a two-day meeting in Turkey on Thursday with the demand that President Bashar al-Assad step down.

It should be noted that some processors will step down clock speeds if there is no activity on the CPU.

riot police dispersed thousands in Algiers, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika asked the crowd to step down.

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He was asked by reporters about calls by opponents that he step down because his personal and legal problems were damaging Italy.

For a start, it soon became unclear whether Mr Abbas really would step down. He has often threatened to resign.

Mubarak's refusal to step down caught the administration of US President Barack Obama off guard, a senior US official told CNN.

The White House was quick to condemn the violence in Taiz but has not yet called for Mr Saleh to step down.

But Assad shows no sign of heeding their calls for him to step down.

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In the interview, the Dalai Lama repeated his pledge to step down as leader of Tibet's freedom struggle should the movement turn violent.

According to military and ruling party officials, Hosni Mubarak is due to speak soon and step down, AP news agency reported.

That's why I suggest Comrade Xing step down. Her worries lie in provoking hostility, choicest option lies in quitting while ahead.

Mr Hu is expected to step down next year, making way for a new generation of leaders.

The protesters, mainly from the countryside, say the government is illegitimate and are demanding it step down and allow new elections.

Anyone who must step down will step down. Anyone who must bear legal responsibility will bear legal responsibility.

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He's ordered an investigation into the violence, which took place one day after Mr Saleh signed a deal to step down.

Toyoda will replace current chief Katsuaki Watanabe, who will step down to the more advisory role of vice chairman.

They decried the rising cost of living and demanded that Bashir step down.

She was content to step down after four years as chief executive.

Some also argue that letting Mr Mugabe in effect pick his successor would make him likelier to step down.

Fears also are rising about the possibility of the country fracturing should Col. Gadhafi step down or be forced from power.

Yemen has seen months of unrest as President Ali Abdullah Saleh refuses to bow to pressure from protesters to step down.

Chang Chuang said: " When passing by one's old hometown, one should step down from the chariot, do you know the reason why? "

He called on his supporters to take back the streets on Wednesday from protesters who are demanding that he step down.

I would advise you to accept the board's recommendation to step down.

Remember that UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill to step down after a trip to Oxford University's graduation ceremony.

China chose market economy, and will adamantine step down, freedom is become cannot evasive times task.

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Does it ever make sense to take a step down the career ladder?

When the engineer saw the red light he put on the brake suddenly to step down the train.

He claims the job needs to be done by one person and has offered me something else part-time that I see as a step down.

Mr Paulson is due to step down by January as Goldman Sachs' latest Treasury secretary.

Mr. Musharraf is expected to step down once a guarantee of safe passage and immunity from prosecution has been struck.

To make your offer workable, think you should take another step down as big as the one you've just taken.

Three times Yemen's president has agreed to step down; three times he's gone back on his word.

If he takes the job, Mr Ganzouri would still be accountable to the military council, which has rejected calls to step down immediately.

He will also step down as boss of the Fox group of film studios and television stations, which will now report direct to Rupert Murdoch.

The UN, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have all called on Mr Gbagbo to step down.

Now some of the same people are quietly suggesting he should step down after just one term after all.

Libyan General People's Congress issued a statement saying, in any case the issues are not discussed Gaddafi to step down.

On Friday, News Corp. said Mr. Murdoch had no plans to step down from the BSkyB board.

You are not in a mood to step down as party chairman even after becoming PM. Why?

Mr Thiam and his chairman, Harvey McGrath, are both under pressure to step down.

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She has called a nationwide hartal (protest strike) for June 27th to call for the government to step down.

Since January 25, Egyptian continuous large-scale anti-government protests, asked Mubarak to step down immediately.

Since January 25, Egypt's domestic anti-government protests occurred in succession, asked President Hosni Mubarak to step down.

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All low-voltage step-down transformers for lighting and air-conditioning circuits.

Protest leaders vowed to step down before Mubarak will not negotiate.

Libyan people has been very clear: Gaddafi to step down now - and not to acts of violence, and stop delay.

The current top leaders, Than Shwe and Maung Aye, will likely step down after the elections, but will not entirely retire.