Sentence examples for declining the chance from inspiring English sources

To that end, he will ride no one-day events this year, including declining the chance to defend his British national title in June.

Manager Joe Torre kept hearing the question, and he kept declining the chance to answer it, as reporters pressed him Tuesday about a new report connecting two of his players to steroids.

Declining the chance to go to university, he spent the best years of his life working for a publication devoted to researching the nethermost ancestry of the landed gentry.

In the end, Sophie's salvation is achieved through a cliché: what will help her make sense of her almost-ex's death is declining the chance to ghostwrite the story of Bill and Melissa Gates's nanny in favor of telling her own story.

So in the 1980s after Graham Gooch opted for a rebel tour to South Africa as well as declining the chance to tour Australia he was welcomed back as soon as he was available because he was such a magnificent batsman.

The renter, who had declined the chance to purchase, refused to grant access.

Yesterday, she was watching TV while Catherine was dressing and so declined the chance to help.

Even when Cornyn is asked to assess Kirk's tenure as mayor of Dallas, he declines the chance to deride.

He was far from the only Labour MP to decline the chance to articulate despair about the party's prospects.

Andrey had been a boxer and Tanya a gymnast, but they had both declined the chance to turn professional.

The Dodgers hold a 2014 option on their contract with Mattingly, who declined the chance to frame the loss in personal terms.