First, you can consider declining an engagement when your learning curve has flattened.
You should consider declining an engagement when your learning curve has flattened, when you've identified more-strategic ways to build your business, or when you realize you're just not enjoying yourself anymore.
Hope those invited to #WhiteHouseIftar consider declining, for Gitmo detainees, American citizens extra-judicially killed & 4th amendment.
I briefly considered declining.
Their father had just been elected to the Senate, and he considered declining his seat.
Another investor, Harry Korba, chimed in to ask Mr. Paulson if he had considered declining his $16 million bonus for 1999.
Asked whether Glock ever considered declining to sell high-capacity magazines for its guns, he replied, "Not for one half a second, no, sir".
But Mr. Pataki was calling instead to ask Mr. Whitehead to serve as chairman of the development corporation, which Mr. Whitehead, keenly aware of his age and his lack of experience in architecture, construction and urban planning, initially considered declining but then accepted.
In one case, he said, he considered declining an invitation to speak to an oil company, but decided to accept, and have the company write a check directly to a local nonprofit group.
Having suffered through my fair share of painful open mic and new talent nights full of shitty comics with no delivery, I considered declining the invitation.
