Sentence examples for explicitly decline from inspiring English sources

Some patients who complete advance directives, for example, explicitly decline hip surgery like that Mr. Reagan underwent, as well as antibiotics to treat infections.

Rather than have no-shows convince others that your party will suck, Facebook has modified its Event pages to hide people who explicitly decline invitations.

When it came to defining this involvement, clinicians focused on aspects of the client-clinician relationship such as engagement, and having the client feel comfortable enough to explicitly decline treatment options.

Most pointedly, both Phillips and the Mets' on-field manager, Bobby Valentine, have contracts that expire after the 2000 season, and the owners have explicitly declined to extend them.

Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the committee chairman, said the subpoena was necessary because Mr. Rove had explicitly declined an invitation to appear voluntarily.

The US explicitly declined to pursue a criminal prosecution against HSBC over its Mexican misconduct, on the grounds the bank was too big to lose its licence and employed too many people.

Although the agency explicitly declined to suspend the memorandum, environmentalists embraced the granting of the petition as another step in their efforts to stop the construction of coal-fired power plants.

The news comes mere weeks after Microsoft explicitly declined to talk about sales numbers.

Kavasery et al. (2009) evaluated the optimal time period to test newly incarcerated jail detainees for HIV using an opt-out strategy, an approach that informs the patient that they will be tested unless the person explicitly declines.

At the same time, however, the panel sidestepped two burning issues by explicitly declining to recommend a boost in postdoc salaries or take a position on whether to curtail the size of the postdoc workforce, which has more than doubled in the past 20 years to an estimated 52,000 ( see graph).

The sex and age of the patients who explicitly declined participation was also recorded.