Sentence examples for declining the position from inspiring English sources

Citing what seem to be genuine concerns for elderly parents, family considerations, and patriotism that he had conveyed in his formal letter declining the position, he nonetheless admitted privately to Weed that the refusal "has not been an easy one by any means, and I hate to make it.

Share, if you wish, your reasons for declining the position.

(Public disapprobation forced Samper to decline the position).

At least four directors have declined the position in recent days.

Any person called to be universal successor is free to accept or to decline the position.

He said he would decline the position "because of a lack of commitment to national partnership".

The businessman, Anthony J. Buzzelli, a managing partner at Deloitte & Touche, said yesterday that he would decline the position he was elected to Thursday.

In announcing Hart had been relieved of his duties last night, the club said he had declined the position, which entails overseeing the development of players aged 18-21.

Leipzig Bach Festival 2001 May 23 to 27 In 1723 Bach was the second choice, when Georg Philipp Telemann declined the position, for choirmaster at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where the current choirmaster, Georg Christoph Biller, conducts an international youth orchestra.

The justice, James A. Yates of Manhattan, said in a statement on Wednesday that he had decided to decline the position in Mr. Paterson's administration after realizing that his "true calling" was to serve as a judge.

It has been said that Shepherd refuses to countenance Allardyce as a Newcastle manager because he declined the position in the days after Sir Bobby Robson was sacked in September 2004.