Sentence examples for forced to decline from inspiring English sources

Pasternak was forced to decline the prize.

And she has been forced to decline a number of speaking engagements.

Knowing that, many potentially valuable recruits would be forced to decline opportunities for public service.

Bush, having rejected reforms to make our forces more mobile, is forced to decline.

Independently, the Nobel committee gave Pasternak the 1958 Nobel prize for Literature; the writer was famously forced to decline it following a huge campaign against him, initiated by the state and embraced by many of Pasternak's fellow-writers.

An S.E.C. memo on the committee's proposed budget warns: "We may be forced to decline to prosecute certain persons who violate the law; settle cases on terms we might otherwise not prefer; name fewer defendants in a given action; restrict the types of investigative techniques employed; or conclude investigations earlier than we otherwise would".

Late relaxation time was the time for force to decline from 50% of peak to 10% of peak.

(Public disapprobation forced Samper to decline the position).

Streeck is admired by the team around Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, and was invited to this year's Labour conference in Liverpool (work commitments forced him to decline).

The BBC, citing internal newspaper documents, said the company hoped to prove that the lawyers were romantically involved, which could have forced them to decline further phone-hacking cases.

In one of several phone conversations following our interview, he'd asked for my help with the book but pressures of work forced me to decline.