Sentence examples for be hard to decline from inspiring English sources

In fact, while he has declined to participate in public speculation regarding his becoming chairman of the bedraggled Securities and Exchange Commission, a presidential request would be hard to decline.

Some mothers' phrasing suggested that although they had been told research participation was optional; in practice the benefits of research participation were perceived to be so great that it would be hard to decline the study, a feature also reported in other African contexts [ 7, 37, 38].

It's hardest to decline a request when our reasons for doing so are vague, abstract, or seemingly unimportant especially if we have to give our excuse face-to-face.

But the population decline will be hard to stop, no matter what ideas Lombardo comes up with.

In isolation, it would be hard to definitively attribute the more minimal decline in Morris' and Plumlee's numbers to anything more than random variation, but given that they fit the overall downward trend, the brief arrival and departure of Thomas has some plausibility.

He returned to the subject in lectures he gave in the 1930s when he outlined his concern that at some not too distant point progress in civilisation would come to a natural end and a stable condition would arise where, he believed, it would be hard to maintain creativity and an entropic decline would follow.

Until that time, it would be such a small decline, it would be hard to measure.

From a certain perspective, it is hard to lament declining popular support for institutions which do markedly little to represent popular interests.

And economists said it could be harder to stop a decline in the dollar than to start one, meaning that abandoning or modifying current policy could risk turmoil in the financial markets.

It is hard to predict that decline, however.

It has been hard to exploit that decline in Peru, where Maoist guerrillas control most of the coca growing territory.