| The Americans know it too and largely for this reason, leaned on the Kurds to stay their hand and stand down on Kirkuk, for the moment at least. |
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| They have got to accept that the war is over and stand down their army once and for all. |
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| The outspoken Tory, a veteran of 40 years in Parliament, will stand down at the next general election. |
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| Your positive insight and support were a huge inspiration for our writing, even after the command ordered us to stand down. |
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| The parliamentary party has spoken and I will stand down as leader when a successor has been chosen. |
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| Last night he announced his intention to stand down as leader of the Labour party in Wales. |
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| If a deal is reached, the IRA is expected to make the first move with plans to decommission its weapons and stand down its military organisation. |
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| He is a bit of a loose cannon and in a bank robbery mission he ignores direct orders to stand down and ends up accidentally shooting a hostage. |
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| The decision to stand down as Leader of the House of Commons was not an easy one. |
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| Fans of studio politics everywhere understand that while Harvey's a boor, Bob is merely churlish, and boors hardly ever stand down for churls. |
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| Hoarded up in abandoned buildings, the government swarmed around them for weeks, in an attempt to force the Kerberos to stand down. |
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| Coun Black, a former mayor, was forced to stand down seven years ago and spent years in the political wilderness following sleaze allegations. |
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| Some councillors stand down, some are deselected and some are rejected by the electorate. |
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| As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down. |
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| Sidelined defender Gary Hobson believes York City must stand down from their panic stations to spark a rise up the table. |
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| After the unit's deployability window closes, the unit would stand down for remanning and retraining. |
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| The Executive Secretary thanked the UK for their work as chair over a five-year period and respected their decision to stand down. |
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| Much would be gained in terms of global security if the nuclear-weapons States could agree to stand down from hair-trigger postures. |
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| We'd probably all be better off if the government were simply to stand down all of their amendments and deal with them at a future time. |
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| In the first request, we were just asked to stand down, because there was an ongoing criminal investigation. |
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| It is comical to suggest that a Parliament that is about to stand down should censure a Commission that is going to do likewise. |
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| By exception, if the Chairman reaches this age limit while in office, he shall stand down at the end of that term. |
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| If one of the three is not there, we stand down, no matter how lucrative the potential transaction. |
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| Mr. Stephen said he would stand down, as long as the new leader came from within his group of supporters. |
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| Cases that the Commission decided to defer, deal with, refer to conciliation, stand down, return to officer or reconsider. |
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| Those last two BASTs will stand down in phase two, beginning on 17 April 2009, and be replaced by a single Enhanced Training Group. |
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| To mark his retirement a stand down parade was held on McDermott Square followed by a march past at Head Office of the Defence Forces Training Centre. |
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| A WARWICKSHIRE councillor of 16 years has announced he plans to stand down. |
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| Ogilvie has been under intense public pressure to stand down from Hampden's most prestigious post over the use of EBTs at Rangers. |
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| Peter Hain will stand down as the Labour candidate for Neath and successor candidate Christina Rees is predicted to keep the seat. |
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| The Air Combat Command has ordered a commandwide stand down on Sept. 14 to review procedures, officials said. |
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| With regard to this, although it is not laid down by the Treaty, each Commissioner has given me his personal assurance that he will stand down if and when I ask him to. |
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| He advised that the Ad Hoc Committees were being asked to stand down until such time as the critical issues were more clearly defined and it could be determined how to best deal with the issues. |
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| But even if we stand down between military crises, we must always be prepared to stand up for Canada, its sovereignty and its interests in the world. |
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| Never attempt to ride with the side stand down or interfere with the interlock mechanism as this will cause a dangerous riding condition leading to loss of motorcycle control and an accident. |
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| He certainly should be pondering it. For a battler like Mr Blair, who has a strong and often admirable conviction that he is right and his opponents wrong, it will always be hard to stand down. |
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| Yet if election candidates who impugned a whole political party – as happened with Carmichael – were required to stand down, there'd be hardly any left standing at the end of an election campaign. |
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| In May 2011, Ieuan Wyn Jones announced he would stand down as leader within the first half of the Assembly term. |
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| In February 1997 it told Sir Edward Heath MP to stand down for supporting a national minimum wage. |
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| He then took Motecuzoma up to the roof of the palace to ask his subjects to stand down. |
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| Shankar will stand down from the Board with effect from 30 April 2015 and leave the Group thereafter. |
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| On the centre-right, José María Áznar will also stand down in March as Spanish Prime Minister but is unlikely to be a popular choice because of his stance on the war in Iraq. |
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| On 1 December 2010, the Board of Directors of Crédit Agricole CIB accepted the request from Patrick Valroff, aged 62, to stand down as Chief Executive Officer. |
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| The School's current interim Director is the Professor of Law, Julia Black, who is due to stand down on the 1 September 2017 when she will be replaced by Dame Nemat Shafik. |
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| Following the signing of the Fresh Start Agreement, Peter Robinson announced his intention to stand down as leader of the DUP and First Minister of Northern Ireland. |
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| Following an illness in 1925 which forced him to stand down as editor of Workers' Weekly, Dutt spent several years in Belgium and Sweden as a representative of the Comintern. |
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| However, she is also a councillor at Wokingham Borough Council, and this week faced calls to stand down from her role as Lead Member for Children's Services. |
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| The Liberal Democrats agreed to stand down in Brighton Pavilion. |
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| P Mohamed Ali stepped down in January after being convicted on corruption charges, has also seen the chief of its internal audit department stand down in April. |
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