True, the committee declined to see Shayler, taking the view that he was a disgruntled ex-employee and not a whistle-blower, and that his complaints were best handled internally.
But there have been, in the past few years, a steady stream of movies -- most of them comedies -- that decline to view black life primarily as a set of social problems to be addressed, or to assume that the most important thing about black people is how white people perceive them.
One could embrace an "androgenous" identity, decline to view oneself in gender polarized terms at all, or play with gender identities in a postmodernist spirit.
The family, he says, declined offers to view the portrait before it was completed.
Both the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor in Mississippi have endorsed the measure, even though some traditional leaders in the anti-abortion battle, including National Right to Life, have declined to do so, viewing it as a reckless strategy that could lead to a defeat in the Supreme Court.
Labor's senate leader and senior left member Penny Wong declined to reveal her view on boat turnbacks on Friday, only saying she had expressed her view in shadow cabinet.
He declined to repeat the view that refugees "took Australian jobs".
But Rick Santorum, who was the runner-up to Romney in 2012 and is running again, declined to make his view known in an interview on Sunday.
At a hearing on May 8, Judge Wallace declined to give his view on the death penalty or on the financing of poor public-school districts.
