Sentence examples for colleagues turned down from inspiring English sources

He and five of his colleagues turned down an offer of tea – the mandatory accompaniment to any meeting in Pakistan – in favour of bottles of mineral water.

We opted to use the PanTHERIA database after Hamilton and colleagues turned down our request for a copy of the Hamilton et al. [ 11] dataset.

Like many of his colleagues, he turned down the opportunity for a comfortable career abroad to put his skills to use back home.

Ellen Hancock, chief executive at Exodus and another IBM longtimer, has turned down the pitch from her former colleague.

Nick, found guilty of the theft because of trumped-up evidence given by his corrupted colleagues, faces 25 years in prison after his appeal is turned down.

Tired and jetlagged, she at first routinely turned down dinner and drinks invitations from her European colleagues, preferring to head back to her hotel and crash.

Officials of the occupying Coalition Provisional Authority who had turned down invitations to the event scrambled to call colleagues via satellite phone to confirm reports that the president had arrived.

Bremen's interior affairs senator, Ulrich Mäurer, turned down his invitation in solidarity with his colleague.

The German authorities questioned her in 2007 but turned down a Turkish request for her extradition, her friends and colleagues said.

Colleagues and advisors, the higher courts that rejected his appeals and even the board that turned down his first request for parole, added to Kozlowski's pain.

The panel unanimously turned down the permit requests from Hyland Resources and Hyland Distribution, but Commissioner Jon Zich split with his colleagues on Shelf Life's application.