Sentence examples for declining an opportunity from inspiring English sources

But Morgan – who has successfully dramatised the period around the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 in The Queen – said at a screening of the first episode last week that he had kept his distance from the Palace, even declining an opportunity to meet the Queen, while the Palace's line is that the programme is simply "a fictional drama".

He pursued a permanent position with Osborne, declining an opportunity to go to Jamaica as a correspondent for the Herald, and was hired in November 1906.

The GOP also has attacked the president for declining an opportunity to meet with Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly later this month in an effort to paint the current White House as dismissive of Israel and its concerns.

Its Director, James Clapper, achieved notoriety in 2013 for falsely denying to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the National Security Agency was indiscriminately collecting telephonic metadata on the entire United States population, and then declining an opportunity to correct on the record.

China declined an opportunity to comment on the case.

The company declined an opportunity to comment on Friday.

When the orphans were forced into the ghetto, he declined an opportunity to escape.

White received a two-year ban but declined an opportunity to appeal for a lower sentence.

Levein declined an opportunity to visit Hampden to learn his fate in person.

Johnson also declined an opportunity to apologise to his Labour rival for his expletive-laden comments.

I've never been one to decline an opportunity just because I don't know what it is or how it's done.