When the Indian government asked him to help rebuild a village that had been displaced by a dam, he reluctantly declined.
Though she is not in love with Anton, she marries him, and when she later falls in love with another immigrant who wants her to return to Europe to search for their missing families, she reluctantly declines, saying she is determined to move forward with her life.
Clapton invited Allman to formally join the group, but he reluctantly declined, feeling as though his time was better spent with the Allman Brothers.
Pressed to marry Liat by her mother, Bloody Mary, Cable reluctantly declines, realizing that the Asian girl would never be accepted by his family or Philadelphia society.
Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman who had also worked with Legrand in the Academy Award winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind" —and was performed by Lani Hall after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.
Already, according to the Wall Street Journal, credible allegations of torture have caused a Marine Corps prosecutor reluctantly to decline to bring charges against Mohamedou Ould Slahi, an alleged Al Qaeda leader held in Guantánamo.
She has done relatively few solo events, grants interviews reluctantly— she declined to speak for this article — and in introducing her husband at events, she offers few of the heartwarming anecdotes that are the stock in trade of the political spouse.
Western scepticism kicks in and I decline reluctantly.
The nascent abolitionist movement attracted those who did not want to be part of a party led by slavery-supporting southerners, and in 1844, Seward was asked to run for president by members of the Liberty Party; he declined and reluctantly supported the Whig nominee, Clay.
Snatched reluctantly ("my instinct is to decline") off the street by Blair to work for Prezza, whom he does not like, Mullin spends two years doing largely pointless tasks, including laughing at the chaotic Prescott's jokes ("the court of Boris Yeltsin"), before resigning.
Reluctantly, Ms. Jacobs said she would have to decline her prize.
