11.   After Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment, the government seized his tapes.

12.   Agus admitted yesterday that he had resigned to avoid accusations that he was recruited nepotistically by Thamrin and had thereafter frequently engaged in corrupt activities.

13.   Al-Rowdhan denied reports he was resigning to avoid an upcoming grilling by Parliament, Al-Qabas said.

14.   An unusual alliance of business and labor groups is demanding that Estrada immediately resign to avoid a prolonged impeachment process that could further hurt the economy.

15.   An unusual alliance of business and labor groups is demanding that Estrada immediately resign to avoid a prolonged impeachment process which could further hurt the economy.

16.   But Paraguayan senate vice president Ramiro Campo Severa told Asuncion radio station Nanduti that Wasmosy had offered to resign to avoid bloodshed.

17.   But the vice president of the Senate, Ramiro Campo Severa told the Asuncion radio station Nanduti that Wasmosy had offered to resign to avoid bloodshed.

18.   Chen said he resigned to avoid being accused of using high office to promote his campaign.

19.   In the last instance earlier this year, the Cabinet resigned to avoid a non-confidence motion.

20.   More than a dozen business groups have asked Estrada to resign to avoid a drawn-out impeachment process.