Sentence examples for declining an assignment from inspiring English sources

In fact, he had originally earned Harley's respect by declining an assignment he thought wrong for the company.

Announced C A.J. Hinch declined an outright assignment to Scranton/Wilkes-Barreand has elected free agency.

Even if you feel able to decline an expatriate assignment at the moment, doing so can derail your career down the line.

In that time, he also declined a conditioning assignment to Hartford of the American Hockey League.

(Undercover officers can decline any assignment, so they had the option of choosing not to return as repeat customers).

The right-handed reliever Mark Leiter declined a minor league assignment and was released yesterday by the Pittsburgh Pirates, who felt he had still not recovered from shoulder surgery.

He has no recourse in regard to his current situation, as he doesn't have enough major league service time to decline a minor league assignment.

By spending 14 more days in the major leagues, Heisey would have five years of service time, at which point he would have the right to decline a minor league assignment.

For years, in quiet protest, he skipped the Masters, declining the assignment.

He said he couldn't remember one specific incident in his 35-year career in which a fighter pilot had declined his assignment.

Trachsel accepted the assignment -- he could have declined a stint in the minors based on his service time -- partly because General Manager Steve Phillips described to him the success that the former Met Bobby Jones had last season following the same route.