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In a statement, Ratcliffe said, “While I am and will remain very grateful to the President for his intention to nominate me as Director of National Intelligence, I am withdrawing from consideration.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2019

Therefore, today I am withdrawing my sponsorship of HB 854, HB 855 and HR 1179 to allow the business of the House to move forward in an orderly manner.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2016

"I am withdrawing from any consideration of being the Democratic Party's nominee for the presidency," he said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2015

“I am withdrawing from any consideration of being the Democratic Party’s nominee for the presidency,” said Webb at a press conference on Tuesday, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2015

I am withdrawing myself from engagements of all kinds, in order that I may pursue my story with the comfortable sense of being perfectly free while it is a-doing, and when it is done.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie