Sentence examples for declined to increase from inspiring English sources

Oben agreed to a three-year, $10.8 million contract with Cleveland after the Giants declined to increase their offer of $3.24 million annually.

International Paper emerged the victor in a bidding war to acquire Champion International after a Finnish paper company declined to increase its offer.

He has declined to increase his harem over the past two years in a show of solidarity with his economically struggling populace.

He made his remarks amid speculation that public holidays looked inevitable in Greece this week after the European Central Bank declined to increase its emergency financial lifeline to the Greek banks, cash that is keeping the country's financial system functioning.

It appears clear what happened here: Activision declined to increase the budget for a movie tie-in game to the level required to include both a driving simulation and a first-person shooter engine.

The court also took the unusual step of calling for a new trial judge to consider the next sentence, because the federal judge who issued the original decision had already once declined to increase Mr. Ressam's prison term.

Some states will likely decline to increase their subsidies to that amount, so to achieve the bill's projected savings benefits would have to be taken away from many poor families.

The authors attributed the declines to increase in land uses at the expense of grazing land among them, expansion of cultivation areas, clearing of land for settlement leading to loss of vegetation in the area.

It attributed the decline to increased competition, resulting in lower calling charges and higher costs.

Some analysts attributed the decline to increasing speculation that the government of Canada might block a hostile $38.6 billion bid for Potash from BHP Billiton, the Australian mining company.

Researchers there attributed much of the decline to increased use of generic drugs and the recent loss of patent protection of blockbusters like Lipitor.