After the meetings, a number of executives decided they would not function well in the new environment, and either resigned or declined to become investors.

In the first two years after acquisition, a number of key employees resigned.

A number of prison officials resigned or were let go in its aftermath.

A number of people resigned from Norris's campaign team.

Skouloudis, and a number of others who agreed with him, resigned the committee at that point.

A similar number of agents resigned under inquiry or retired abruptly in those years.

Nobody was expelled over the matter, though a small number of members resigned.

A number of players have apparently resigned themselves to the notion that foreign aid will not be arriving soon.

Understandably, morale is low and a number of his colleagues have resigned as a result.

Police officials also said that a number of officers resigned or simply walked off their posts in the days after the storm.