But I will also be less willing to insist on mammograms for my patients who decline them.
"Among the immediate reasons for my mother's decline was the weight of history, the personal insult, the traumas, and the fears for the future," Oz said.
(Like Summers himself, Harvard's president and provost declined to be interviewed for my film and also declined to respond to written questions).
I spent six years researching the cumulative effect of our relational decline for my book, This Land of Strangers - The Relationship Crisis That Imperils Home, Work, Politics and Faith.
"For my recent exhibition, he declined to advertise, finance the production of my exhibition in the least and was despondent of the unlikelihood of sales from the exhibition — all because of recession.
Little investment and no vision led to expectations of decline which, for my part, I did nothing to rectify.
I've been declining requests for my time, and the social whirl is less compelling than it ever was.
Indeed, a spokesperson for Gómez declined my request for an interview with her to discuss the case, writing, "Under the guarantees of the law and of due process, we are barred from fulfilling your request".
With a genial air of command, he ordered eggs Benedict for the table, declined my request to turn on a tape recorder, ("Just keep my name out of it," he instructed later) and settled into an hour of polished spin.
She decided which SAT II subject tests to take and, for some reason, declined my offer to prep her like a politician for interviews.
