Sentence examples similar to once he declines from inspiring English sources

The Scot's sacking as manager - despite only guiding Cardiff into domestic football's top tier for the first time since 1962 in April - was inevitable once he declined Tan's emailed invitation to resign earlier this month rather than be fired.

I reminded Mays that I only called him at home once and he declined to talk about Bonds's pursuit of the single-season homer record.

But once again he declined to criticize secessionist leaders or the Russians, except to say that he would continue to press them to live up to their commitments to withdraw.

Then, in October, Hogan was offered management of yet another league franchise in South Bend, Indiana, but, once again, he declined.

Today, he declined once again.

Once on his stool, he declined a seventh round.

Yesterday he declined once again to get involved.

He declined once more to click on the link, suspecting foul play.

A spokesman for the show said that the advance ticket sales for "Once" were "very healthy" – he declined to provide a figure – and said that its stars, Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, were on contract to stay with the show until at least March 2013.

You could run the distracted-by-girls gag with John F. Kennedy — perhaps with a Marilyn Monroe cameo — although it somehow seems less funny with J.F.K. than B.C. Lyndon B. Johnson certainly has the perfect face for the cartoon-costume sendup, and because he once declined to run for re-election he could occasionally refuse to budge from the starting line.

Bledsoe and some co-conspirators, whom he declined to name, once sent Najarian a dozen roses on Secretary's Day.