Sentence examples for plans declined from inspiring English sources

She voiced concern that 21 percent of workers whose employers offered plans declined to participate and that for those age 20 to 29, 40 percent declined.

Democrats have criticized those plans, declined to produce an alternative, and instead demanded what they called a "balanced approach" to deficit reduction.

The number of people covered by Oxford plans declined 4percentto to 1.52 million, as it ended some small group plans.

Other data released on Thursday showed that new orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose in June although a gauge of business spending plans declined, pointing to a slowdown in factory activity.

Nondefense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business investment plans, declined 3.4 percent after falling by a revised 2.7 percent in June, the department said.

23andMe, which has been keeping very quiet about its plans, declined to comment for this story.

Henry J. Stern, the parks commissioner, said that after support for the plan declined, his department put off the plan indefinitely.

Among South Asians, the Pakistanis have been the least successful, she said, because a political commitment to family planning declined.

A trust it once managed — focused on "pre-need" funeral planning — declined sharply in value, prompting a handful of civil lawsuits alleging financial mismanagement.

Xerox, which recently lost an appellate court challenge to the way it calculates lump-sum distributions from its pension plan, declined to comment on the issue yesterday.

Some institutional investors who had criticized Nasdaq's earlier plan declined to comment on the revision until they could read the amendment, which Nasdaq officials said would be filed with the S.E.C. "You can't tell anything from what a press release says," said Harold Bradley, senior vice president at American Century Investments.