He took an active part in the running of his college, but avoided public occasions, to the extent, for example, of declining an invitation to become a founding member of the British Academy.
Seventy-eight per cent of the seropositive subjects complied with the study protocol on the first and second occasions, 72 and 61, 50 and 35, respectively, on the third to the sixth occasion, declining further to 31 and 22% on the final two occasions.
But on this occasion Moscow and Beijing declined to help.
On that occasion, McConnell declined to respond.
The target says he was approached by "Caroline" and a second MI5 officer on a number of other occasions, but declined to travel to Libya and still lives in west London.
What Ruskin did not predict, however (though it might have pleased him), was that the rise of an empirical model of weather would occasion the decline of the symbolic one — and, with it, the over-all decline of weather in literature.
On this occasion, too, he declined.
A spokesperson for Octopus told us: "On this occasion Octopus will decline to comment on this specific portfolio company".
Romney, who said he's ridden his son's motorcycle "on occasion," declined.
On at least 3 separate occasions, Allen declined.
On most occasions, Young declines to comment about his situation.
