Ministers are still declining to introduce benchmarks, which they were rightly ready to introduce into higher education admission procedures.
But Honda has avoided significant powertrain improvements, declining to introduce direct fuel injection, downsize the engine or add a turbocharger.
Northern Ireland capped tuition fees at the lower £3,000 level plus inflation, while Scotland declined to introduce fees at all for Scottish students studying in their home nation.
"Who was that?" Monroe asked, turning around and suddenly interested, as though a friend had come by and embraced me and I had rudely declined to introduce him.
But citing legal concerns, the authority declined to introduce a similarly strict evaluation system for subcontractors, who perform about three-quarters of its capital workload.
Elsevier, the publisher of Medical Hypotheses, has retracted the article and has terminated the contract of the journal's editor, Bruce Charlton of Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, who declined to introduce a peer review system at the 35-year-old journal.
Despite a campaign by some pilots, the Royal Flying Corps declined to introduce parachutes during World War One, although air forces of most other nations did so.
Washington wrote Hamilton back, declining to introduce the army; after the crisis had ended, he warned of the dangers of using the army as leverage to gain support for the national funding plan.
And while Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam concocted a Medicaid expansion plan, he declined to actually introduce it to the state legislature).
The 42% of men declining to participate introduces potential bias.
