And now, particularly over the past three years, the struggle to regain the old prosperity has dissolved into resignation.

Conflict and indecision are made to subside slowly into resignation.

He was forced into resignation by Ukrainian student protests and hunger strikes.

And a stirred fire was what she was, too long damped down into resignation.

But she wasn't crying now, and her face settled into resignation.

But that hatred fast melted into resignation, and the lesser vampire moved away.

That rage has faded into sullen resignation in recent months.

His rage seemed to have evaporated and turned into resignation.

He served for 8 months, until he too was forced into resignation on January 17, 1982.

It later emerged that he had been pressured into resignation by the party's National Executive.