Sentence examples for refusing an invitation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gormley added that anyone refusing an invitation to testify would be subpoenaed.

It was the fourth debate in a week, but Mr. Florio has attacked Mr. Corzine for refusing an invitation to a debate that would be carried over the ABC affiliates in New York and Philadelphia, which would mean a much wider potential audience.

"We tell them to be very careful and vague about personal questions," says Jenna Tabaka of the Gail & Rice talent agency in Southfield, Mich., "to blame company policy for refusing an invitation for a drink, for instance, or to say, 'Thank you, but I'm married.' " And there are some situations that no advice quite covers.

He remained in Halle for the rest of his life, refusing an invitation to return to Leipzig in 1709.

Dedicated to the promise of Biafra, he accepted a request to serve as foreign ambassador, refusing an invitation from the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University in the US.

In the emails, sent to the organisers of a talk at Canterbury Christ Church University on Monday on the topic of "re-radicalising queers", Cowling refuses an invitation to speak unless Tatchell, who has also been invited, does not attend.

When the Opera House finally opened, in 1973, he refused an invitation to the ceremony.

Would you have refused an invitation to the studio of Rembrandt?

Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's chairman, has refused an invitation to appear at the hearing.

Astana are refused an invitation to the Tour de France on ethical grounds.

He has refused an invitation to a tenue blanche ouverte, a masonic meeting that non-freemasons may attend.