Sentence examples for declining to take sides from inspiring English sources

The Queen, who had urged voters in Scotland to think "very carefully" before casting their votes in the referendum, had followed convention by declining to take sides in public.

And it brilliantly declines to take sides in the rivalry.

He has declined to take sides in the Senate race.

The brothers decline to take sides in the conflict that is tearing the country apart.

But ministry representatives have declined to take sides, at least publicly.

A Boehner spokesman declined to take sides, saying the GOP will iron out its differences in the days ahead.

He promptly dropped out and, diplomatically, declined to take sides in the slugfest between his Senate colleagues Mr. Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But the Governor and the Senator declined to take sides in the dispute between Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Mayor David N.

Senior lawmakers in the House and the Senate have very different ideas about how to achieve that goal, and the Bush administration declined to take sides.

Bosses of easyJet, BAE Systems and Shell have all signed a letter in support of the UK remaining inside the EU, but supermarket chiefs have so far declined to take sides.

A senior Western diplomat also said there were indications that Ukraine's military, intelligence and law enforcement bodies might decline to take sides in the political crisis.