Sentence examples for declining to try from inspiring English sources

Declining to try, out of a false sense of decorum, was, in Auden's view, the real English vice.

Four of the strongmen declined to try to lift it at all, and four tried and failed.

The prior incumbent was Rick A. Lazio, a Republican who ran against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Senate in 2000 and declined to try a comeback.

In more than a decade of my tenure at Stonewall – a period when even its most determined detractors, from Lord Tebbit to the Archbishop of Westminster, would not deny its parliamentary effectiveness – we declined to try to find out what thousands of Westminster candidates might claim to think about our issues.

Harris did not express an interest to play in the NBA and declined to try out for the Jazz.

Some branch members I know, many of them longtime contributors to the success of movies, have despaired and declined to try to justify themselves.

She told me that she could only follow recipes and declined to try one of the brownies because it hadn't been made from a recipe.

There is a scene in Fort Worth as the president cheerfully accepts a gift of a cowboy hat, but declines to try it on for the cameras.

English Apples and Pears, the industry's trade association, has released recipes for dishes such as Polish apple cake and Indian lamb dhansak using Bramleys, a sour cooking apple also in decline, to try and encourage immigrants to eat more of them.And tastes are changing.

The search giant's co-founder, Sergey Brin, was later spotted sporting a prototype at a charity event in San Francisco, although he declined to let others try it out.

But in the real world, it takes decades to bring back a city in decline, or to try.