Sentence examples for conspicuously declining from inspiring English sources

Christiane Taubira, Hollande's justice minister, resigned over the proposed nationality law in January, and Emmanuel Macron, the economy minister, has even launched his own political movement, conspicuously declining to rule out a bid for the presidency in 2017.

Carson conspicuously declined to settle the question.

You will note that Sting conspicuously declines to deflect the heat by stating that he donated all or indeed any of his monstrous fee to charity.

Yet in several recent interviews, including one with The Economist, he has conspicuously declined to rule out supporting that plan as the price of another five years in power.

In 2011, Mr. Ryan conspicuously declined to serve on a special select committee empaneled in the shadow of a debt ceiling fight that year to find a bipartisan path forward, worrying that the effort would tarnish his ambitions for higher office.

But in an indication of how difficult the fight will be, the union's president, Michael Mulgrew, conspicuously declined to applaud during education-related moments of the speech and declared afterward that the mayor was living in a "fantasy education world," proposing ideas that he did not have the power to put into effect.

This was a union victory too: even though the decision was technically made on legal grounds, Mr Reed conspicuously declines to promise new legislation that would reverse it.The upholding of the minimum wage was particularly sweet for Mr Reed's critics, for some think it may undermine the whole welfare-reform project.

Shortly after the nuclear shift, Mrs Merkel's government conspicuously declined to get involved with the military action against Libya.

Which leaves four firms on Access's list that have conspicuously declined to comment: Blue Coat Systems, Netsweeper, Huawei and ZTE.

Moehringer graciously but conspicuously declined to share credit for the book, guaranteeing that he would receive it.

Earlier in the day, the White House had conspicuously declined to join British officials in blaming Russia for the attack.