"decline the idea" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to reject or refuse to accept an idea. For example, "The committee unanimously decided to decline the idea of starting the business in a new city."
General Clinton proposed this to Howe; having just led three assaults with grievous casualties, he declined the idea.
Madonna stated that she and her team thought of filming the video in Iceland, as the idea to the video was to go someplace cold and where there is snow, but declined the idea.
Some additional trends in the gene structure data also decline the domain shuffling idea.
As his poetry matured, however, his audience declined; probably, the idea of a peasant poet can engage the attention of fickle townies for just so long, and no more.Clare's last years were tragic.
Darrell West of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, notes the decline of the idea that companies are creatures of the state, given the privilege of incorporation in return for pursuing a broad public purpose.This all sounds very enlightened.
The avocado industry has benefited from the decline in the idea that all fat is bad for us, although Daniels points out "saturated fat is still known to raise cholesterol.
[C5.] Self-Employment on the Decline While the idea that the United States is a nation of entrepreneurs and self-starters has nearly become accepted wisdom, it does not appear to jibe with reality.
Another polite decline at the idea of remote work from the company and another job turned down on my end.
From a commercial standpoint, however, Suzanne Cowie of Babble suggested that Cyrus' opening-week sales figures and subsequent decline supported the idea that the studio album format is reaching its end, having used her example to exemplify that "consumers are only interested in the single".
Given that so many stars already decline to participate, the idea of cobbling together a respectable team for an off-season qualifier could not have been appealing to Major League Baseball.
