Sentence examples for declined to reduce from inspiring English sources

When prosecutors declined to reduce the charge, he hired an investigator, the lawsuit says.

But Judge Katz declined to reduce Mr. Rajaratnam's bail to $25 million from $100 million, as his lawyers had asked.

A judge has declined to reduce a teenager's five-year prison sentence for elbowing an opponent in a high school basketball game.

Mr. Mener, Con Edison's lawyer, declined to reduce the bill further, adding that the meter was tested and found to be accurate.

Judge Jose L. Linares of United States District Court praised Mr. Dwek's cooperation but declined to reduce his sentence further, because of the seriousness of his crimes.

The court agreed to a "moderate" extension of the zone -- less extensive than the university had sought -- but declined to reduce the permitted number of demonstrators to 12, from 50.

The task is to identify a mode of analysis that allows Congress to regulate more than nothing (by declining to reduce each case to its litigants) and less than everything (by declining to let Congress set the terms of analysis).

But when it came to the design of its bottles, the company stood firm, declining to reduce the plastic content beyond a certain point because it believed that it would make them less visually attractive, according to a recent report in The McKinsey Quarterly, an online business management journal.

"In short, if OPEC simply declines to reduce its own production quotas in the face of growing U.S. oil volumes, the American producers could grow themselves right out of the money," says Hirs.

They did not use that decline to reduce the recommended equity exposure of their portfolios.

The chairman at BNP Paribas, Michel Pebereau, above, attributed the decline to "reduced capital gains" and said that "it is naturally difficult to predict business trends for the coming months".