1.   An early effort to have Gramm resign to allow Gov. Rick Perry to appoint Bonilla to the seat fizzled in a political crossfire involving Gramm and other players.

2.   He may not even enter the ring, resigning to allow a new, untarnished premier to lead his party into battle.

3.   The Communists and nationalists say Yeltsin is still in fact ill and should resign to allow them to bring in bullish law-and-order policies of their own.

4.   Cabinet resigns to allow major reorganization.

5.   Erbakan has to resign to allow President Suleyman Demirel to designate Mrs. Ciller.

6.   Sangheli said his Cabinet was resigning to allow the new president-elect, Petru Lucinschi, to form his own government team.

7.   Top NAP executives have heard him say that he was willing to resign to allow full-scale restructuring, or that the party would be dissolved after four years.

8.   Day announced this summer he would resign to allow the election of a new leader after divisions in the Canadian Alliance mounted.

9.   The opposition is demanding the government resign to allow new elections under a neutral caretaker regime.

10.   The military leaders who deposed him have agreed to resign to allow his return.