Sentence examples similar to justice declining from inspiring English sources

A single justice declined to participate in the project.

Justice Benjamin, now the court's chief justice, declined to be interviewed for this article.

The justice declined to defend himself today or at earlier committee hearings on the case.

The US department of justice declined to comment on the bankers' remarks.

A State Supreme Court justice declined to dismiss charges against the defendants, saying they had not shown that the masks were necessary to protect them from harassment by the authorities.

He does have other conditions of release but the ministry of justice declined to reveal them, saying this would require an application to the judge.

A State Supreme Court justice declined yesterday to issue a restraining order temporarily halting the demolition of nine vacant buildings to make way for the Atlantic Yards project near Downtown Brooklyn.

-- Third, after Justice declined to prosecute, the CIA took administrative action, including disciplinary action against those officers whose conduct it deemed warranted such responses.

Blows and burns on his body were consistent with torture by Egyptian security officials, but the country's public prosecution office and ministry of justice declined to question any members of the security services in connection with his death.

After a State Supreme Court justice declined to dismiss the case, an appeals court granted the landlord's motion to dismiss on the grounds that there was no proof that the landlord actually knew there was lead-based paint in the apartment.

But Helen Hill, the 45-year-old adoptee who spearheaded the successful campaign for the measure in 1998 and celebrated a final victory this week when a Supreme Court justice declined to stand in its way, says she is puzzled by the notion of such a dilemma.