Sentence examples for declined out of from inspiring English sources

In the 1990s I approached him for an interview on his period as high commissioner, but he declined, out of respect, he said, for "Jack Gowonn.

The Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, declined out of concern that he would be seen as too cozy with a company that has numerous business issues before the department, an administration official said.

There was the embryo poet, an amateur historian and the blacksmith who claimed to have met the film director John Ford on the streets of Galway and was asked to appear in The Quiet Man, but declined out of filial duty.

A woman who could not possibly have been younger than 85, sitting on the same banquette as I and two feet away, caught me eyeing her tête de veau and turned directly toward me, saying "Voulez-vous essayer?" I declined, out of some idiotic politeness.

Su is said to have encouraged Moore to ask English out on a dinner date to resolve the issue, which she eventually declined out of fear for her safety.

The company offered her a deferment, which would have simply delayed her required payment, but Williams declined out of fear it would hurt her credit score.

We then considered two-way interactions between covariates adding them in a stepwise fashion until addition of covariates no longer led to declining out-of-sample NLL.

Thus, together, declining out-of-pocket spending and growing deficit-financed health spending appear to account for more than a 25percentt increase in relative U.S. spending.

Back then, we were at the top of the bell curve and had the luxury of declining out-of-district students.

At the time, Orthodoxy was perceived to be outmoded and declining, out of touch with modern society.

Just as in the UK we often accept or decline out of politeness, the Chinese say yes or no in ways that an outsider might not understand.