McNally, for instance, initially declined to visit Harvard as a high school senior.
Mr. Song volunteered that other nearby mines were also polluting streams, but his visitors declined to visit them.
The U.N.'s Human Rights Commission declined to visit the detention center last year after the Bush administration refused to allow commission members to interview or talk with detainees.
Tim Thomas, the most valuable player in last year's playoffs, declined to visit the White House on Monday with the rest of the members of the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins.
With his usual magisterial disdain, Godard again declined to visit the Croisette, but shook things up with another free-form essay in the vein he's developed over the past two decades — a radically fragmented flash-fry of sounds, texts, images and gags, and this time, all in 3D.
Last year, Curry also declined to visit Trump and the White House, which prompted the president to rescind his invitation.
When he declined to visit Kenya on his three previous tours of Africa as president, Kenyans criticized what they saw as a political snub against his ancestral homeland.
Two friends of Gable's who attended told the Idaho Statesman that they were "livid" during the funeral and declined to visit the gravesite afterward.
When Obama declined to visit Kenya on his third trip to Africa, in 2013, many of the country's citizens criticized what they saw as a political snub against his ancestral homeland.
"How would you feel if it was your child hanging from a tree?" Shorter said that he declined to visit the scene and that he's been trying to cope with the news all day.
