Sentence examples for could not decline from inspiring English sources

That is not to say that Mr. Obama's standing — he has a lead of about four percentage points in the polls, on average — could not decline.

That is not to say that Mr. Obama's standing could not decline later on in the race, for any number of reasons.

The court's decision, on April 2, said the E.P.A. could not decline to regulate carbon dioxide, as in the past, unless it could show that the emissions were not a danger to public health.

Clearly, Suárez could not decline.

He could not decline his historic mission.

For all three functional decline outcomes, the statistically significant AORs for the baseline values in the ADL (0.78; column 1), IADL (0.69; column 2), and mobility (0.37; column 3) models indicated a floor effect such that those with poorer function could not decline as easily as those in better function at baseline.

It was the middle of the night in Beijing, but he couldn't decline.

So when I was invited to attend and share a hotel room by my girlfriend Wanda, also a mother old enough to know better, I couldn't decline quickly enough.

Nickel coating could not only decline diffusion activation energy but also increase diffusion driving force.

Breeding a bit earlier in the season or having the pups farther north could ensure that populations do not decline further, although the prospects for this are unclear.

One of about 10 working-class boys enrolled there, he found himself in a minority that hadn't been to prep school and couldn't already decline Latin.